California Globe Article RatingGov. Newsom Proposes Penalties for Oil Company 'Price Gouging' But Ignores State's Highest Gas Taxes - California Globe
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| "The Globe talked with oil industry expert, Dave Noerr, who is also the Mayor of Taft, CA, and President and CEO of Huddleston Crane Service, about Gov. Newsom's proposal." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "It's as if Gov. Newsom and Senator Skier are facilitating the state takeover of the oil industry, with their proposal telling oil refineries when they can perform maintenance, and penalize them over profits." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Why?On November 1, 2017, then Governor Jerry Brown supported by Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, signed Senate Bill 1 which substantially increased vehicle registration fees as well as taxes on diesel and gas, Noerr said." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "SB1 also has a provision to automatically, without discussion, increase taxes on gas and diesel aually based on inflation every July 1st, and it has been increasing aually since that date." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Directs the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, in collaboration with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to investigate and report on the drivers of and factors affecting the price of gasoline in the refining, distribution, and retail segments of the gasoline market; to uncover pricing irregularities in the California gasoline market and their effect on tax revenue; and toCOPY report its findings to the Governor and the Legislature." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Green energy caot replace oil and gas, and is nowhere near close to replacing oil, gas or coal, yet in September 2020, using his emergency authority during the Covid crisis, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order requiring sales of all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035 and additional measures to eliminate harmful emissions from the transportation sector." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Noerr says this is another day, another attention grabbing headline, by Gov. Newsom." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "The Globe talked with oil industry expert, Dave Noerr, who is also the Mayor of Taft, CA, and President and CEO of Huddleston Crane Service, about Gov. Newsom's proposal." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "It's as if Gov. Newsom and Senator Skier are facilitating the state takeover of the oil industry, with their proposal telling oil refineries when they can perform maintenance, and penalize them over profits." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "It's as if Gov. Newsom and Senator Skier are facilitating the state takeover of the oil industry, with their proposal telling oil refineries when they can perform maintenance, and penalize them over profits." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Why?On November 1, 2017, then Governor Jerry Brown supported by Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, signed Senate Bill 1 which substantially increased vehicle registration fees as well as taxes on diesel and gas, Noerr said." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Why?On November 1, 2017, then Governor Jerry Brown supported by Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, signed Senate Bill 1 which substantially increased vehicle registration fees as well as taxes on diesel and gas, Noerr said." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Governing by Political Consultant to Attain the Presidency - December 5, 2022 Gov. Newsom Spreads Around another $240 Million of Billion$ Allocated to Clean Up Homeless Encampments - December 2, 2022 Spread the news: RELATED ARTICLES Governor Newsom Adds New Oil And Natural Gas Extraction Regulations November 20, 2019" | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "On April 22, 2019 Governor Newsom asked the California Energy Commission to do an in depth analysis of differential cost between national & California gas prices, Noerr said." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Gov. Newsom and Democrats are playing a form of bait-and-switch with taxpayers." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Assembly Republican leader Jim Gallagher and then-Assemblyman Kevin Kiley offered a solution to California's highest-in-the-nation gas prices earlier this year, proposing to suspend California's .54 cent gas tax." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Following the special session of the Legislature, in a press statement titled, Governor Newsom Unveils Price Gouging Penalty on Big Oil's Excessive Profits to Protect Californians from Being Ripped Off, Newsom claims his proposal would discourage oil refiners from fleecing Californians by making it unlawful to charge excessive profits." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Gov. Newsom must not have read the memo this past weekend:" | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "And those high prices hurt California consumers and businesses, said Senator Nancy Skier (D-Berkeley), who authored the governor's proposal." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Green energy caot replace oil and gas, and is nowhere near close to replacing oil, gas or coal, yet in September 2020, using his emergency authority during the Covid crisis, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order requiring sales of all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035 and additional measures to eliminate harmful emissions from the transportation sector." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Noerr says the governor is grossly wrong, and that this is deju00e0 vu all over again.California's price gouging penalty is simple - either Big Oil reins in the profits and prices, or they'll pay a penalty, said Governor Newsom." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Gov. Newsom Proposes Penalties for Oil Company 'Price Gouging' But Ignores State's Highest Gas Taxes - December 5, 2022 Gavin Newsom:" | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "But Democrats on the Assembly Transportation Committee hijacked Kiley's legislation by passing amendments to gut the bill so they could not be accused of voting for the gas tax increase." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Gov. Gavin Newsom claims this is because of greedy oil companies and price gouging." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
59% :The Globe talked with oil industry expert, Dave Noerr, who is also the Mayor of Taft, CA, and President and CEO of Huddleston Crane Service, about Gov. Newsom's proposal.58% : It's as if Gov. Newsom and Senator Skinner are facilitating the state takeover of the oil industry, with their proposal telling oil refineries when they can perform maintenance, and penalize them over profits.
57% : Why?""On November 1, 2017, then Governor Jerry Brown supported by Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, signed Senate Bill 1 which substantially increased vehicle registration fees as well as taxes on diesel and gas," Noerr said.
49% : "SB1 also has a provision to automatically, without discussion, increase taxes on gas and diesel annually based on inflation every July 1st, and it has been increasing annually since that date.
47% : Directs the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, in collaboration with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to investigate and report on the drivers of and factors affecting the price of gasoline in the refining, distribution, and retail segments of the gasoline market; to uncover pricing irregularities in the California gasoline market and their effect on tax revenue; and toCOPY report its findings to the Governor and the Legislature.
38% : Green energy cannot replace oil and gas, and is nowhere near close to replacing oil, gas or coal, yet in September 2020, using his emergency authority during the Covid crisis, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order requiring sales of all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035 and "additional measures to eliminate harmful emissions from the transportation sector."
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.