California Democrats call for a $400 rebate to help with gas prices

As the price of gas continues to rise, so does the need for relief. "I just want Californians to know that we hear you and we see you," said Democrat Assm. Rebecca Bauer-Kahan. Thursday morning on the steps of the Capitol, Democratic lawmakers announced giving taxpayers a little capital back – in the form of a $400 rebate.

[alanmats]

End the gas tax we don’t want a rebate

[Mrs.LUNAtik_]

Lol keep that chump change $400 “rebate”

Suspend gas taxes‼️ we pay the highest gas prices here, it’s ridiculous.

[motomanic]

All they need to do is take away the gas tax if they were really interested in helping people

[thatbrianguy]

Suspending the gas tax will help to slow inflation a bit. $400 bonus isn't going to do much at all. Besides, aren't they just giving us back the money they owe us from the budget surplus this year?

[DennisSection]

Give us $400 and take off that $0.51 gas tax. That will really help the American people

[T__F]

Yeah, give us back our taxes as a rebate .... Thx a lot.

[V]

Something is something!👍now I am paying in CA. more than $6.00 per gallon.

[rottweilers]

400 rebate, that's only enough to fill up your tank for a month and half top's. Suspend the gas tax is way more effective on the long run. Stop walking over a dollar to pick up a dime.

[rw]

How about repealing the gas tax like the republicans did for Virginia. A $400 rebate is nothing especially since you’ll have to pay taxes on it.

[tommyboy]

That's a quandry.
How about suspend the gas tax for a few months.

[drewbundy]

This is crazy cause if you don't drive or own a car getting nothing again

[tobecontunedusa]

What they should do is have a vote on gas taxes and see if people vote for them and tell them it’s fix the roads.Sounds familiar to what people did.

[davidpaz]

Consider this the next time the current admininstration mentions those 9, 000 permits for oil wells.
1. You don't just 'open a valve' to increase production
-It is extremely capital and time-sensitive to extract hydrocarbons
-You have to get permits approved, construct locations, drill the well, frac the well, build production infrastructure, etc
-You are talking a six month cycle at best
-Then you have other constraints such as labor shortages and steel shortages
2. Now you want oil and gas(O&G) companies to ramp up on capex to increase production
-It's very tough when the Feds have created so much uncertainty from a regulatory perspective with rhetoric and actions such as banning drilling on federal lands and pulling pipeline permits
-Essentially the message is 'There isn't a place for O&G in this world. You're being phased out.'
-It's hard to make investments with those headwinds, but now that's what is being asked
3. Americans are long addicted to cheap oil and gsd
-That was enabled by investors subsidizing the costs over the last decade by incinerating their capital
-Now investors was O&G to focus on sustainable cash flow and return capital.
*Shocker.* This has caused O&G companies to go into maintenance mode and limit production growth
4. Activists have been pushing for divestment of O&G
-Endownment funds, institutions, banks, and other entities havd announced their withdrawal from O&G
5. Now O&G companies are the bad guys for not producing enough
-Despite years of capital being sucked out of the space, increasing hurdles to build infrastructure, and activists constantly attacking the industry, suddenly it's O&G companies who are to blame
-They are at fault for something they can not physically do in such a short amount of time
-They operate at low prices and give Americans an extremely prosperous life. The response: 'You're killing the planet. We're going to end you. Leave it in the ground.'
-O&G companies stop chasing production and leave it in the ground. The response: 'Greedy oil companirs only care about profits. They don't care about human suffering or else they would increase production.'
-People in O&G have every right to be upset right now
-They wake up and work hard to power the world. Just for the twitter mob to call them evil
-Now those critics are in desperate need of help and the only people who can pull them out of the hole of their own making are the ones they have always villified
-Bad energy policy and misguided activists have rendered this mess
*FULL STOP*
People are now getting a much needed hard dose of reality on energy production and realizing how critical it is to society

The O&G companies didn't cause this

The current administration did. The average cost of gasoline at the pump was at around $2.00/gallon and holding steady when they took over

[Lulu-viwb]

$400 is good for what? A month worth of gas or groceries?

[Michael-ucfd]

Our gas prices are high because not only the taxes but they switch between winter and summer fuel costing even more money stick to one grade of gas and suspend the tax immediately we have a surplus so it will not hurt the budget at all but of course this makes too much sense so they won’t do it. Our government is being run by C minus students.

[sylviatorrez]

400 isn't going to do much! Escondido has been at an average of almost 5 well before the Ukrainian crisis.

[largealmond]

A rebate is just trying to put a bandage on a broken arm, classic political move of providing "relief" without addressing the root cause of the problem

[JesusSavesFromSin]

Jesus Christ saves from sin.
Romans 3: 23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Hebrews 9: 27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Isaiah 64: 6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Revelation 21: 8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Romans 5: 8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
John 3: 16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 14: 6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Romans 10: 9-10.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Jesus said John 5: 24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

1John 5: 10-13
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God..

Ephesians 2: 8-9
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Romans 8: 1
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 15: 3-4
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
2 Corinthians 5: 21
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in

[shelbygauthier-owensby]

Republicans are rich because they make rich people

[ancientelevator]

$6 gal =~ 1.37* EUR per litre.... that's actually super cheap. (*Assumes fx rate ~1.1 EUR/USD)