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            REINING IN CALIFORNIA'S LOW CARBON FUEL STANDARD

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, once again, the California Air Resources 
Board is trying to jam through a gas price hike under the cover of its 
so-called low carbon fuel standard. After the rule was blocked earlier 
this year for being unclear and poorly written, CARB is now racing to 
make it effective by July 1, just months after quietly approving it 
right after the election and in time for summer travel for people on 
vacation, et cetera.
  Even their own staff at CARB admitted it will raise gas prices. 
Californians already pay the highest gas prices in the country. This 
will just make it worse.
  This is set to add at least 65 cents per gallon by this move. 
Combined with a couple of closed refineries in California, by the time 
that kicks into place, a USC study indicates it could be $8.40 per 
gallon. Let that settle.
  That is exactly why I acted at the Federal level and led the charge 
to rein in California's Clean Air Act waiver authority, the same waiver 
CARB uses to push these costly, unchecked regulations onto the rest of 
the country. No agency should have this much power to raise costs 
without public input or accountability. This is bureaucratic overreach.
  We voted here to contain CARB on forcing electric cars and trucks 
under these waivers. We should give them no more waivers and allow that 
or other radical policies that raise costs for families and everybody 
else.

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