I'm very concerned that
California consumes nearly 50% of all oil exports from the Amazon
globally (nearly 1 in 9 gallons pumped in-state on average). 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.
I do not want California to be
complicit in driving new oil drilling in the Amazon which requires
regulating refineries’ crude sources and volumes. Please
develop a plan for California to reduce and/or eliminate its
consumption of crude from the Amazon and require California
refineries to ensure that they are not sourcing crude oil from
regions where there are human rights violations and to require that
they ensure that they will not source crude from areas of new
drilling in the Amazon.
Finally, committing California to new
fuel efficiency standards and expanding the use of electric
vehicles in the state's fleet will help reduce our consumption
equal to Amazon oil import totals.