“Sacramento bureaucrats need to understand that gas is not a luxury, it’s essential to get to work, to get your kids to school,” said Vidak. “Where I live people are still standing in food lines. This is going to hurt the folks that can’t afford it the most.”
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) secretly created the new assessment fee on gas without public knowledge or legislative approval. Beginning January 1, 2015, the CARB mandate will require companies that sell transportation to comply with the cap-and-trade program regulation.
SB 5 would exempt transportation fuels—including gasoline, diesel, and natural gas—from the state’s cap-and-trade program so that Californians will not be gouged at the pump.
“Nowhere else are gas prices going up than in California,” said Vidak.
SB 5 co-authors include:
Senators- Joel Anderson (R-San Diego)
- Tom Berryhill (R-Twain Harte)
- Jean Fuller (R-Bakersfield)
- Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar)
- Mike Morrell (R-Rancho Cucamonga)
- Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber)
- Jeff Stone (R-Temecula)
- Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach)
- Bill Brough (R-Dana Point)
- Ling Ling Chang (R-Diamond Bar)
- Beth Gaines (R-Roseville)
- Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield)
- Young Kim (R-Fullerton)
- Eric Linder (R-Corona)
- Brian Maienschein (R-San Diego)
- Devon Mathes (R-Visalia)
- Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley)
- Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore)
- Jay Obernolte (R-Hesperia)
- Assembly Republican Leader Kristen Olsen (Modesto)
- Jim Patterson (R-Fresno)
- Marc Steinorth (R-Rancho Cucamonga)
- Dave Wagner (R-Irvine)
- Marie Waldron (R-Escondido)
- Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita)
Source: California State Senator Andy Vidak
