- For the following reason, I insist that you prioritize
ending reliance on Amazon crude as part of your climate change
plan:
- Rein in rogue refineries. Commit California to
a policy/regulatory agenda that ensures that California refineries
are not sourcing crude from regions where there are Indigenous
rights violations or from regions where new oil drilling in the
Amazon is being planned.
- Don't punt your climate impacts to communities in the
Amazon. Present a plan for California to reduce and/or
eliminate its consumption of crude from the Amazon.
- Commit California to new fuel efficiency standards and
expanded electrification of fleets that consume the most
Amazon oil. Expansion of EVs broadly, and public transportation
goals to reduce domestic consumption equivalent to Amazon oil
import totals.
- California consumes nearly 50% of all oil exports from
the Amazon globally (nearly 1 in 9 gallons pumped in-state on
average).
- You shouldn't want to be complicit in driving new oil
drilling in the Amazon and that they need to regulate
refineries’ crude sources and volumes.
- You should require California refineries to ensure that
they are not sourcing crude oil from regions where there are human
rights violations and to require refineries to ensure that they
will not source crude from areas of new drilling in the
Amazon.
Thank you for your consideration.
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