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Public demonstration on the street against global warming and pollution. Group of multiethnic people making protest about climate change and plastic problems in the oceans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Larry Bell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actions by the United States, directed at Iran, have resulted in the temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz in the Mideast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Strait is a chokepoint controlling about 20% of global oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result appears to be, comparatively speaking, a very brief spike in gas prices in exchange for permanently curtailing a radical regime\u2019s ability to weaponize vital international shipping channels, or develop nuclear weapons to advance its \u201cDeath to America, the Great Satan!\u201d commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, former Vice President Kamala Harris would like you to believe that a recent surge in gas prices to over $4.00 (a level not seen since the Biden administration while she was in office when they topped $5) are to be blamed on President Trump and his \u201cwar of choice\u201d on Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recall that Biden raided the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to reduce price pain ahead of 2022 midterm elections \u2026 oil subsequently replaced<\/a> by the Trump administration last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appearing on a video while standing in front of a sign showing fuel rates at a Charlotte, North Carolina gas station, she states<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019ve got a president who is paying more attention to what he thinks is in his best political interests and personal interests, as opposed to what is in the best interest of working people in America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former U.S. vice president added, \u201cIt\u2019s 15 more dollars every time you fill up a tank of gas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fellow Californian and potential competing 2028 presidential candidate, Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., is pursuing the same blame-Trump-for-the-war narrative for gasoline price hikes, while at the same time opposing offshore drilling and pipelines that would reduce his state\u2019s reliance on foreign oil and lower those costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsom and other Golden State officials have blocked reopening of a Sable Offshore Corp. oil and gas project in federal waters off its coast, along with a restored pipeline that carries crude to offshore distribution networks, which hasn\u2019t operated since a 2015 spill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Energy Secretary Chris Wright invoked the Defense Production Act requiring Sable to reopen operations to address supply disruption risks to some 50 military installations in western states, Gov. Newsom branded the order a \u201cpolitical attempt to point the finger at California to divide and distract the American people from his wartime failures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sable reports it has about 540,000 barrels of processed crude oil in storage and plans to begin selling 50,000 barrels a day of oil this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California\u2019s anti-fossil policies, including its cap-and-tax program, low-carbon fuel standard drilling limitations, and a lack of interstate pipelines, are indeed putting both economic and national security at greater risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While U.S. crude production has increased by about 50% over the last decade, California\u2019s output has fallen by half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than produce or use abundant U.S. oil, the state imports about 60% of its crude<\/a> from overseas, about a third of which comes from the Mideast, with Iran war-disrupted shipping costs contributing about 15 cents per gallon more cost in California than nationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California\u2019s gasoline prices have spiked to $5.52 a gallon versus an average of $3.72 a gallon nationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This scenario has been influenced by about 15% of the state\u2019s refined fuels also being imported, much of which again depends on rising costs of Mideast crude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National record California gas prices aren\u2019t a recent phenomenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state has lost roughly half its refining capacity since the 1980s and a quarter since 2019, with no thanks to costly regulations which have made operating and maintaining the facilities uneconomic, causing supply shortfalls and consumer price hikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valero plans to shut down its Bay Area refinery next month<\/a> at a time when demand for gasoline in Northern California will exceed production by 135,000 barrels a day \u2013 equal to about 36% of regional demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editors at The Wall Street Journal<\/em> have noted the Valero shutdown is a particular cause for national security alarm because a single refinery outage in northern California could create a \u201cfuel emergency in which Coast Guard readiness and Air Force Pacific operations are called into question.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travis Air Force Base relies on jet fuel from Chevron\u2019s refinery, and the Coast Guard Island in San Francisco\u2019s Bay area houses Pacific Area Command, the headquarters directing all Coast Guard operations across the Pacific basin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, the war in Iran will not have any lasting negative influence on U.S. gasoline consumers. Unlike our European allies, the U.S. doesn\u2019t depend on the Mideast for oil, whereas America\u2019s fossil dominance has substantially weakened abilities of governments in Iran and Russia to wage war against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for current gasoline prices, Americans paid more than $3.50 a gallon between 2011 and 2014 amid market disruptions caused by Arab Spring protests during the Obama administration, a period when U.S. oil production was less than half of today\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding U.S. energy, a more economically impactful war is being waged by the left\u2019s climate agenda which for decades has enriched and emboldened a hostile regime threatening to weaponize their oil resources while attacking ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared at NewsMax<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actions by the United States, directed at Iran, have resulted in the temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz in the Mideast.<\/p>\n

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