The California refinery crisis is a national security risk for America

Energy "REALITY" tells us that we need refineries to convert that useless black tar into usable transportation fuels and products:

• Planes, ships, trucks, and cars do not run on raw crude oil, they run on transportation fuels manufactured FROM crude oil by multi-billion-dollar refineries.
• With no pipelines over the Sierra Mountain, the new refinery in Brownsville in Texas will be useless to the California Energy Island that demands in-state refineries to provide transportation fuels for 30 major military locations, 9 international airports, 3 of the busiest ports in America, and fuels for the trucks that transport imported products to the rest of America.
• Wind turbines and solar panels ONLY generate electricity but CANNOT make any of the more than 6,000 products that are based on the oil derivatives manufactured out of raw crude oil, nor can wind and solar make anu transportation fuels for the military, airports, merchant ships, automobiles and trucks.
• The world is not dependent on raw natural fossil fuels BUT has become dependent on the products and transportation fuels MADE FROM oil, the same products and transportation fuels that Wind and Solar CANNOT make!
• The world needs MORE REFINERIES to process that useless black tar into usable transportation fuels and products for life as we know it.

Collectively, closure of the Phillips refinery in Southern California and the Valero refinery in Northern California provided about 17% of the state's crude oil processing capacity to provide transportation fuels demanded in California. Thus, transportation fuel shortages are imminent for California, and will be importing those transportation fuels from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

The supply chain of fuels and products refined from raw crude oil will face severe imbalances, most likely leading to higher costs and shortages for future generations.

With 99.5% of the 8 billion people on this planet Earth living outside the borders of California, CARB is solidifying California's 4^th largest economy in the world as a national security risk for the entire USA!