California republicans praise Trump for reviving offshore oil drilling

EXCLUSIVE: The first Republican of the State Senate of California praised the Trump administration for his intervene to restart the “gold mine” of Golden State off his coast, after a project has not opposed Senator Adam Schiff since the major pipe failed in 2015.

“California is seated on an oil gold mine, but democratic politicians continue to block responsible production here at home,” Senator Jones from San Diego told Fox News Digital.

“Instead, they choose to import oil from foreign nations with low work protections and bad environmental standards.”

As Fox News Digital reported it exclusively, the Interior Department has passed the reopening of the Santa Ynez unit of the Pacific oil producing region in recent days, bringing around 190 million barrels of recoverable oil potential online.

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Senator Adam Schiff, on the left., The chief of the minority of the California Senate, Brian Jones, on the right (Getty; Reuters)

Schiff, as well as representative Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., Already opposed vocally by revising the project, citing concerns resulting from the tide of refugee a decade ago.

“(W) e faces threats from the Trump administration to extend oil drilling everywhere, including offshore California, and to empty federal policies and agencies that protect our environment and attack the current climate crisis,” Schiff and Carbajal wrote to Governor Gavin Newsom earlier this year.

“As we know too well, climate change based on fossil fuels has an impact on California and has staged unprecedented disasters like the one we have just lived in Los Angeles,” they said.

Jones said it was time to reopen energy reserves in a state that was once the center of the best companies in the industry.

Chevron recently moved most of its San Ramon commercial operations – outside Oakland – and moved to Texas.

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A few kilometers from the i-680 of the old chevron base, Valero announced the closure or restructuring of a massive refinery capable of 145,000 barrels of oil production per day. Valero will finalize his plan by April 2026.

Jones said that California must first put its workers and the environment, echoing other best Republicans who want jobs and businesses to remain.

The California essence tax remains the highest in the country, Illinois and Pennsylvania near.

Newsom said it was focused on solving market problems to make petrol more affordable and ensuring reliable access to fuel.

In a recent letter At California Energy Commission, Newsom said that his administration had “made great progress in the fight against peaks and irregularities” and underlined the uncertainty of world energy.

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He also accused the administration of President Donald Trump of adding “more uncertainty and instability in the global economy than ever – the petroleum industry on the front line of this agitation of the market”.

“The refineries have been restructured, transitions, consolidating and firmly through the country for years,” he said, highlighting the January closure of a Lyondellbasell refinery in Houston in the middle of what he described as the change of this company to “the objectives of decarbonization and sustainability”.

California’s minority chief James Gallagher by Yuba City, Republican No. 2 of the Golden State, rejected this assertion.

“He does not solve the problem. He is the problem,” said Gallagher in a recent statement, adding that the governor is trying to appear “a worried passer -by” in the situation.