California lawmakers say they'll investigate why the state's gas prices are the highest in the U.S. Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon announced a bipartisan committee on Monday to investigate gas price gouging.
California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon announces the creation of a Legislative committee to look into the state's high gas prices during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., on Monday, June 20, 2022.
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon announced a bipartisan committee to investigate gas price gouging, with plans to question oil companies, regulators and economists to find out why California's gas prices are consistently the highest in the country. “We have put ourselves in a situation because of our addiction to the gas-powered engine. Yet that is no excuse for the actions of those who pin California drivers down with a foot on our necks and a hand in our pockets," Rendon said.Republicans mocked the investigation on Monday, blaming Democrats for California's record-high gas prices because they have refused to temporarily stop taxing gasoline as other states have done to control costs.
Catherine Reheis-Boyd, president and CEO of the Western States Petroleum Association, said she agreed Californians are paying too much for fuel and warned “it could only get worse” if state officials don't “take responsibility and act not to change the dangerous mix of bans, mandates and bad energy policy they are pushing on our state.”
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