Modern society runs on refined oil products, can California keep ignoring reality?

• The air board has brand new cap and invest amendments that they will be voting on at the end of May.
• These amendments, if adopted, will result in huge fee increases for all three corporations. If the state will not sit down and negotiate with these corporations on these newly proposed amendments, then they will all look at shutting down their refineries and leaving the state.

If this happens then the famine will not be knocking on the door, it will be kicking it in. Cities have three to five days supply of food on hand. Even now, we are at a vulnerability level in which this is possible.

Here are two questions for the California "users" of the products made from processed crude oil:

1. Are the "users" blaming refineries for humans living longer and healthier lives because of the medical industry that did not exist a few centuries ago?

2. Are the "users" blaming refineries for virtually eliminating weather-related fatalities that requires a combination of advanced prediction techniques, proactive infrastructure planning, and community preparedness?

The world is not dependent on natural fossil fuels, as no one uses "raw" crude oil that is only black tar, 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!

Today, we're a materialistic society. Wind turbines and solar panels ONLY generate electricity but CANNOT make any of the products or transportation fuels that get made from fossil fuels that support:

• Hospitals
• Airports
• Militaries
• Medical equipment
• Telecommunications
• Communications systems
• Space programs
• Appliances
• Electronics
• Sanitation systems
• Heating and ventilating
• Transportation - vehicles, rail, ocean, and air
• Construction - roads and buildings
• Nearly Half the World's Population Relies on Synthetic Fertilizers Made from Fossil Fuels

Discussing crude oil alone, too often consultants, educators, politicians, and also many industrial leaders CANNOT explain how the more than 350,000 wind turbines, and an estimated 3.5 to 5 billion individual solar panels in the worldwill make the following transportation fuels:

• Bunker fuel, to support over 112,500 commercial and merchant ships globally.
• Jet fuelto support an estimated 30,000 commercial aircraft in the world.
• Gasoline fuel: Worldwide gasoline consumption hovers around 300 billion gallons annually.
• Diesel fuel: Global diesel usage is approaching 400 billion gallons annually.

Transportation fuel demands continue to grow to support jet fuel for planes, bunker fuel for ships, diesel fuel for trucks, and gasoline fuel for cars.

Energy-dense fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas – demonized as sources of carbon dioxide – remain the backbone of food distribution, especially in the developed world. They fuel irrigation pumps, fertilizer plants, delivery fleets, farm machinery and refrigeration. Remove these energy inputs, and granaries would shrink. Famine would no longer be a relic of history; it would be knocking at the door.

With California being the 4^th largest economy in the world, the two refinery shut downs resulted in an additional loss of nearly 300,000 barrels per day of state crude oil refining capacity. If the six remaining refineries in the State go down, the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland will go down. Logistics will collapse. The supply chain of the products and transportation fuels MADE from oil will grind to a halt. Within a few short weeks, cities will be out of food. This will have a cascading effect in Nevada and Arizona. If three of the busiest ports in America are in fact shut down, it is quite possible that food shortages could reach deep into America. California continues to be the supply chain source of the products and transportation fuels demanded by citizens of the State, and others in America that depend on that supply chain.