With California being an energy island with the Sierra Mountains on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other side, there are no pipelines “into” the state from the rest of the country. In 1980 California’s instate production and imports from Alaska provided 94% of California’s needs, now it’s less than 50% of our needs, with more than 50% imported from foreign countries. Alaska imports have been declining, as well as in-state production. Crude by rail to the California energy island are not getting public support. America has more recoverable oil and natural gas supplies than Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, China, and all of the OPEC nations COMBINED.

Today, according to the Energy Information Agency (EIA) the United States is the largest producer of crude oil in the world. 49 States can be energy independent of foreign crude oil EXCEPT for California which will rely more and more on foreign crude oil. California continues to increase their imports of crude, already at more than 50% of our needs which is about 1,000,000 barrels per day, as the California “energy island” has no access to the growth in domestic oil production, other than crude by rail.

By shutting down the oil industry, they would be depriving the airports of the 10,000,000 gallons of jet fuel required every day to keep them running smoothly, resulting in an international economic crisis. In addition, the 97% of our 32 million vehicles that run on conventional transportation fuels would be deprived of the 40,000,000 gallons of fuel being consumed every day, also resulting in a world economic crisis. All the above manufactured fuels are now manufactured in-state by the few manufacturers that are left in California.