December 1, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (12/01) - USC Prof. Michael Mische comes on the show to talk about if the state of California's oil industry is on the verge of collapse. Santa Monica residents fear a sober living place that closed could re-open. More on how many people have self-deported.
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three o'clock, we're going to talk with Michael mache. Michael
Miche has been on with us a number of times,
is the USA Professor, and recently he and others issued
a report saying that we are in serious trouble. The
whole economy in California could be in serious trouble because
the well, it could be that the oil and gas
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industry are are past the point of no return, Katie
Grimes wrote in californiaglobe dot com today that Gavin Newsom
has presided over perhaps the largest energy policy collapse of
the oil industry in US history, not only the industry,
refinery operations, gasoline production. And in fact, I didn't know this,
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it's in the story. But Mike Ariza is a petroleum expert,
and he co wrote a paper with Michael Machet who
We're gonna have We're gonna have on now? And Arisa
told California Globe that the Benetia refinery is moving its
closure date from April next year to January, and the
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Phillips sixty six refinery in Wilmington is already shut down
October seventeenth. I didn't know it. It's shut down. That's
one hundred and forty thousand barrels of crude oil refining
every day. It's gone. Now they're shutting down and maybe
next month in Benetia. Let's talk with Michael Mache, the
USC professor. Michael, how are you?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Terrific? John? How are you today?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I'm fine. If Michael Loresa is right and the Wilmington
refinerly shut down six weeks ago, I guess, and Benetia
is going to shut down next month. What does that
mean for California and gas prices.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Well, a couple of things. And Mike knows the industry,
and you know, he's been a longtime industry expert and
an operator within the industry, so he knows the ins
and outs. But basically that comes down to six million
gallons of gasoline a day short. And what I mean
by that is we're down six million gallons of gasoline
a day and in state production.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
The only way that state can make that up. Keep
in mind, we have no pipelines coming into the state
of California, zero, none coming from anywhere else. So the
only way we can make that up is through maritime imports.
That is more tankers coming across the Pacific unloading in
the Port of la and up north in San Francisco.
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So we're short six million now. Just to transport that
gasoline alone is anywhere from thirteen to seventeen cents a gallon,
which we'll be passed on to the California consumer.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Plus you have issues.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Of supply disruptions. Anything can happen when a ship is
at sea. We could have a typhoon that could delay imports.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
We could have a port.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Strike that could delay offloading of products. So We're in
quite a vulnerable situation right now.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Katie Grinds goes through some of the things that have
happened around the world. An oil tanker was seized by
Iran and the straight uh hornoneose severe weather conditions in
Alaska delaying oil tankers. Is there are a fewer delivering
oil now to California and on and on. I As
the thing is, what is the point in no return?
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Does that mean anything specific that we are going to
see or is it just going to be a general
gradual decay with prices accelerating.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It could be quite.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Abrupt actually, because the one refinery, Phillip sixty six is
shut down. We call it it went cold. That means
it's not producing. Valero, which decided to announce to come
down on the thirtieth. It's the consensus among those of
us who watched the industry, and Mike brought it out
in his interview this probably January thirty first, is that
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that's going to shut down. Now, what's interesting is this
pipeline that connects northern California to southern California. We only
have three major pipelines that go north south, Okay, two heading,
so one heading north. The one heading north. It's called
the San Pablo Bay Pipeline, sometimes referred to as Crimson.
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That pipeline feeds the two surviving refineries up in northern California.
If it goes down in it, by the way, it
moves as much as two hundred and.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Ten thousand barrels a day.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
If it goes down, then Northern California has no pipelines
going to it. The sole surviving refinery up there will
be PBF Martinez and they will most likely go maritime
for their imports. So Northern California will have basically Chevron
surviving up there and PBF surviving up there. Both of
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them will take their oil via maritime tankers. The Larra
will be down, the pipeline will be down, and costs
will go up considerably for Northern California residents.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Karisa said that the pipeline might be closing by the
middle of December. The largest inland oil pipeline, Crimson, that's
the one you were talking about.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
That is that's correct, the Crimson pipeline. That's a distinct possibility.
So they're operating. They can handle about two hundred and
ten thousand dollars a day. They are operating at fifteen
percent capacity right about now, well below the break even
point of that pipeline. The company's been losing money about
two million bucks a month or so, they say, which
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they disclosed or informed.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
The governor of that.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So well, this is like an emergency.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, you would think though. I mean, we just published
a report this morning that said, look, here's a blueprint
for getting out of this mess. You can save the pipeline,
and you very well could maybe save a refinery up there,
but most of all, you would be reducing California's incredible
dependency on foreign oil. I mean, we're bringing in and
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spending about sixty million to seventy million dollars a day
that we pay from California to non US oil producers,
and that includes Iraq.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Saudi Arabia, Brazil, some of these.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Other countries, and we'll be importing that oil on non
US flag tankers.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Now, when we lose the refineries, we're going to have to.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Start importing six million gallons of gasoline a day to
keep up with themand that gasoline will be coming from
South Korea, India, and even China. So recently, this is
almost crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
It's coreot because we're using the same amount of oil,
so we're just importing it and it's adding a tremendous
amount of cost. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, I think you've a bit of perverse, right.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
It's not only adding cost, John, it's also contributing to
more increased greenhouse emissions. I mean, you know, if you
have a tanker coming across the Pacific for forty seven days,
that's a whole lot more emissions to get the oil
here than it is for us to produce the oil
off shore, say, you know, off of Santa Barbara.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
It's a fact. So we have oil. We have the fifth.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Largest reserves in the country. The question is why aren't
we using it? All right, we should be using those reserves.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, obviously, Arisa thinks AC's gas price is staring to
over eight dollars a gallon could go as high as twelve.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You think that's possible, Well, anything's possible in this industry.
I mean the eight dollars comes from an original study
I did back in April in May, but that was
predicated on higher crude oil prices. So the largest component
of gasoline price is the crude oil price, and under
President Trump, the price of crude oil has come down
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twenty percent from January. Now, the price of California gasoline
has not come down by a commensurate amount, and so
when you've dropped the price of crude, you'll drop the
price of gas. However, even today, I just computed it,
California gas line prices are fifty two percent higher than
the national average. And in one county they are approaching
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six dollars a gallon up up in Mono County it's
it's like five dollars and ninety cents a gallon.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So our prices will start drifting up. If and when this.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Pipeline, the Crimson line drops, we can expect to see
a considerable increase in prices due to maritime track.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Can you hang on? I got to do the news.
I want to continue this because I also have the
stay out. I have the state by state gas price
from Triple A in front of me. I want to
talk to you about it when we come back, right,
So just hanging there for another segment we got. This
is Michael MChE USC, professor on the collapse of the
California's oil and gas industry.
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Speaker 1 (10:00):
We continue now with Michael mcchey, the USC professor on
the goil and gas industry, hitting a what Katie Grimes
wrote in the California Globe today, maybe a point in
ozh return because we have one refinery that closed last month.
A second refinery is probably closing in January. Now, how
many refineries are left in the state.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Well, we only have seven left Johns, and that's down.
And that's down from forty three thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Oh my god, forty three to seven.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
All right.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I'm looking at TRIPAA website and they have the Every
day they update the state by state gas prices. Sorry,
I'm counting. Thirty two states are at three dollars or less,
and forty four states are at three dollars at thirty
cents or less. And then you got California sitting at
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four fifty six. You know what the price of gas
is in Oklahoma two dollars and forty cents two forty.
Now we got a screen shot. I'm a listener who
is responding to one of our Facebook posts, and I
couldn't believe it was real. It was a dollar eighty five.
I don't know what state he was from. He didn't
say a dollar. It looked like a real photo.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Though.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Is that possible that somebody out there is paying a
dollar eighty five in this country and you're saying there's
one county near six here in California.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yes, there's one year six right now in California. That's
Mono County, and they're at five ninety a gallon. And
if you take a look at it. So under the
Trump administration, one of the stated goals of President Trump
was to bring the price of gasoline down to below
three dollars a gallon, and I think his most recent
goal is to be quite aggressive bring it down to
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two dollars a gallon. Problem with gasoline in California is
if the price of crude oil was zero, the price
of gas would still be the highest in the country
because we pay at least a dollar forty four in
taxes and fees associated with gasoline in this in this state,
so we have the highest state exercise tax, we have
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cap and trade, we have the low Carbon Fuel Standard,
we have an underground storage tax, and we have county
and city municipal taxes. Collectively that's around a dollar forty
four gallon which you know, at these prices is twenty
five percent of the price of the gasoline that we pay.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Well, truck did his goal because today's triple A national
average is three dollars in one tenth of one cent.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yes, and I can assure you that he's very, very
happy with that because we got to that goal as
a country through policy of increasing production. So in the
United States right now, we're at all time high production rates.
We're producing thirteen zero point four million barrels of oil
a day, and so we are entirely self sufficient and
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beginning to be energy dominant, as was the president's ambition.
But when we look at California, it's been exactly the opposite.
We are becoming more dependent on foreign oil sources and
foreign carriers. So as the US is becoming less dependent,
California is becoming more dependent. And I think more alarmingly
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for Californians is we're going to be getting gasoline from
refineries across the Pacific. And here's what's going to happen.
The offshore producers like those up in the San Jenese
Channel off of Santa Barbara, they'll produce oil. That oil
will go on a barge to La the oil that
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was unloaded from a foreign producer to an LA refinery.
That tanker will be loaded with California oil. That oil
will go to South Korea. It will return as California gasoline.
How absurd is that? And think about the devastating impact
on emissions in greenhouse emissions, and I'm a change. It's
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just phenomenal. So there is a path out. My co
authors and I released a report this morning that hopefully
gets to the governor and we're more than happy to
go to Sacramento and to talk about it with him.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Describe your plan as simply as you can so everyone.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Can real simple. We have oil off.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
The coast of California. We can open up that oil field.
One particular company, I think it's one particular company, Sable,
which is somewhat contentious, but it has three hundred and
fifty thousand barrels of oil in a tank ready to go.
That oil can be released into the California system within
ninety six hours. In addition, they can produce forty five
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thousand barrels a day. So our plan is to open
up that production, move that oil south to the refineries here.
The oil that's produced in current County can now go
north to the surviving refineries up there, which predominantly would
be Chevron and PBF. But PBF would take the oil,
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assuming it's economically viable for them. If we did that,
we would be reducing our dependency on foreign oil, reducing
our dependency on foreign gasoline, stabilizing our prices, and saving
the pipelines that are so critical for the state. It's
a simple solution. It's all laid out in our report today.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Well, I wish we could make you governor for a
few months straighten this out. Michael Miche, Thank you for
coming on.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Appreciate it. John, you have a wonderful day.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, thank you for explaining it to everybody, Michael Miche,
the USC professor. So there you have it. We got
one major refinery closed closed in October October seventeenth in
Wilmington here in southern California, and then in Benetia, northern California.
Another refinery major closing in January. We're down to seven.
We used to have forty three. We used to import
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four percent of our oil. Well now we're importing sixty
five to seventy percent of our oil. And it gets
worse and worse. And you know, Katie Grimes California Club
dot Com, just a good question, which you know might
sound hyperbolic, but you tell me where it's wrong. Could
Gavin Newsom be California's Nicholas Maduro, the socialist president of
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Venezuela Because Maduro ended up taking over the oil industry
and destroying it in Venezuela and now they have massive
poverty and inflation. Newsom is destroying the middle class year
rights just as Maduro and Hugo Chavez did before him,
and threatening the takeover of California's oil and gas industry,
as Chaves did and Maduro continued to do. Yeah, Newsom
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has threatened to take over the California industry, exactly what
they do in communist countries. I don't know how the
public allows this. I mean, I have seen major political
upheavals over gas prices all around the world. There's a
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long history of that. And here the average price in
America is at three bucks. We're at four point fifty six,
as Michael Miche said, some places are up near six
in California. When we come back, Santa Monica is shutting
down a sober living home apparently mental patients and drug
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addicts were being imported from other states to live there.
We'll talk about it.
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is so full of criminals and corruption. We're gonna play you.
Fox eleven reporter Matthew Seedorf. This is a sober living
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facility that opened up on Ocean Avenue, and that is
the avenue that overlooks the Santa Monica Beach and the
Pacific Ocean, right across the street from a family park,
Palisades Park. It looks like somebody opened up this sober
living home on their own without any permits and brought
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in flew in drunks from places like Alabama and Virginia.
Really play this story, Matthew Sedor, Fox eleven.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
The mysterious vans on luxurious Ocean Avenue moving dozens of
people into a new, seemingly secret, sober transitional living facility
just before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
I was completely shocked.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Santa Monica's mayor's stunned by images of people living at
the controversial building, the same building that two months ago
had been suaited to become housing for those with severe
mental illness. This transparency until intense neighborhood pushback forced La
County to pause the project.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
While I was there, a van pulled up with about
ten more individuals, maybe more concerned that nobody could answer
what the name of the place was and who was
in charge?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Where were these people from?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
One I asked was from Alabama, another one was from Virginia.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Said, oh, did you drive here by car? And they're like, no, no, no,
we're flown.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
In neighbors fear. What they're seeing isn't a recovery operation,
but what's called body brokering, a process where people struggling
with addiction are recruited, sometimes from out of state, and
funneled into insurance funded programs for profit. This is a
legitimate concern, the possibility of body broker and happening here.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
It's unfortunately all too common and sober living practices where
folks are brought in sometimes from other states and offered money,
and they utilized their insurance to get money for them
to come in through the program, and it's exploiting a
vulnerable population.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Looks like it's empty at the moment.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
By Sunday, the more than forty people who had moved
into the building last week were suddenly gone after city
inspectors declared the property unpermitted and unsafe.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Think every body feels it will happen again.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
But residents worry this isn't the end of their fight
on Ocean Avenue. Amazing to me, a developer or a
private housing company can have a city playing cat and
mouse with the city like they're actually winning.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
They're building places, you know, places full of.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
People and the city doesn't know about it, and then
they got to get reactive and pull the people out.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
It's just it's it's just it's Santa Monica.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
So for now this building is supposed to stay empty.
But many people are wondering if that's what will happen
point in a lifetime in Santa Monica and Matthew Sedo
or Fox Revenues.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Have you any clue where those people were taken or
where they've gone.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Yeah, And that's what some people are wondering. I know
one of the locations was a location in Thousand Oaks.
But again, it's kind of all happening very secretively, and
a lot of people are wondering where they went.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Did you follow that this was a building that the
county and the city we're going to turn into some
kind of some kind of homeless shelter, rehabilitation shelter. I
don't know. So the crazy people were going to go
to the building and the residents got it stopped. The
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way I read this separately, somebody showed up and took
thirty people with them and gave them living conditions, gave
them a home in the same building, and nobody knew
who was in charge, what company was responsible for this,
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just mystery. Vans showed up with thirty people and a
couple of them said they were flown in from Alabama
and Virginia, and it's some kind of insurance fraud. It's
another scam. Probably a nonprofit involved here, right, but nobody
knows which nonprofit, and I don't know if it was
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connected to the original idea of sending homeless people and
giving him shelter. A woman named Kathleen went online to
give an update from just a few hours ago. Because
this story was from I guess yesterday, thirty people were
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moved into the building. The site had no fire safety clearance,
no license, no permits on the room divisions. The staff
could not explain who was running the operation or what
the program was. The city stepped in and issued a
twenty four hour vacate order. Everybody was relocated. Building is
now empty. This was not part of any approved city
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or county program. So who did this the hell? So
you could be living in a neighborhood and in the
middle of the night you could have thirty drug addicts,
thirty mental patients, thirty alcoholics all move in on you,
and you go to the city. You don't know, county
doesn't know, Please don't know. There's nobody running the joint.
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What a dysfunctional mess this all places? Hey yeah, hey,
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Speaker 1 (27:02):
Now, you know, one of the side effects of the
ice raids here in Los Angeles is that a lot
of people have self deported. I mean they think like
a couple of million people self deported out of the
United States, and obviously thousands here in Los Angeles. And
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you know, it's funny. They actually opened the Alley Time
story by saying Trump administration immigration crackdowns are driving unexpected
enrollment declines. Well, of course it would be expected. What
are you talking about. Everybody knew we had a significant
percentage of illegal alien kids and they didn't speak English.
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Are you kidding me? Unexpected because the people, the people
who are like paying attention realize that, you know, the
jig is up here, you got to go back home.
Trump's got over three years left and he's going to
keep at it. So la un if I lost about
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seven thousand more students than projected this year. Now do
we get a tax rebid on that or God forbid that?
Maybe they can, they can put it back into the
classrooms and into the supplies. I mean, I'm always hearing
about teachers going it's so unfair. We got to pay
for our own supplies. It's like, I don't know, seven
(28:27):
thousand students, that's a significant amount of money that's being saved.
How about give it to the taxpayers. And do we
need this many teachers and administrators? Shouldn't some of those
people be fired and we can make more of a
savings there. I mean, the schools I'm reading here in
LA keep shrinking and shrinking, because seriously, unless you're dirt poor,
(28:52):
why would you want to send your kid to a
Los Angeles public school? In most of the districts, there's
a few exceptions, but a lot of them.
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Come on.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's terrible, terrible, and it's proven because three quarters of
the kids in eighth grade are not proficient in math
or in reading. Three quarters, So clearly the system is
a colossal failure. No parents should send their kid to
the LA school district, nobody. So what you end up
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with is the very poor, and then you have the immigrants.
But the kids aren't speaking English anyway, so how could
they keep track of what's going on. And if the
kids are starting to leave because the parents are self deporting,
it's like, we'll give us the money back, give us
the money back and start firing people. Let's do some restructuring,
as they say in the corporate world, some right sizing.
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And we're down to four hundred thousand students, not even
four hundred thousand here in LA used to be six
hundred thousand about twenty years ago. So the public school
system is shrinking, partly because it's a disaster, partly because
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the middle class has to move out of Los Angeles.
You only seem to have for the most part, wealthy
areas in poor areas. And you know, then he had
a lot of a lot of a lot of students
couldn't speak English, and that really slowed the process down.
Oh hear this, here's this. Uh, there's there's one school.
(30:36):
This is in San Diego, Perkins, it's K through eight.
A third of the students at the school are homeless. Well,
what are we doing here? We we we're paying money
in San Diego for a school district, for a specific
school where one of the one third of the kids
are homeless because they're imigrants. But why are we doing this?
(30:57):
How is this helping the world? They they, This is
what happens when you allow this illegal migration. Is is parents.
This is brutal on the parents' part. What are they
doing to their kids bringing them here? I would I
would think going to school in uh in Central America
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is better when you speak the language, and it's better
when you have a home nearby. Then coming here and
you don't speak the language and you don't have a home,
then of course, we like a bunch of suckers, are
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Miche has been on with us a number of times,
is the USA Professor, and recently he and others issued
a report saying that we are in serious trouble. The
whole economy in California could be in serious trouble because
the well, it could be that the oil and gas
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industry are are past the point of no return, Katie
Grimes wrote in californiaglobe dot com today that Gavin Newsom
has presided over perhaps the largest energy policy collapse of
the oil industry in US history, not only the industry,
refinery operations, gasoline production. And in fact, I didn't know this,
(01:33):
it's in the story. But Mike Ariza is a petroleum expert,
and he co wrote a paper with Michael Machet who
We're gonna have We're gonna have on now? And Arisa
told California Globe that the Benetia refinery is moving its
closure date from April next year to January, and the
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Phillips sixty six refinery in Wilmington is already shut down
October seventeenth. I didn't know it. It's shut down. That's
one hundred and forty thousand barrels of crude oil refining
every day. It's gone. Now they're shutting down and maybe
next month in Benetia. Let's talk with Michael Mache, the
USC professor. Michael, how are you?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Terrific? John? How are you today?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I'm fine. If Michael Loresa is right and the Wilmington
refinerly shut down six weeks ago, I guess, and Benetia
is going to shut down next month. What does that
mean for California and gas prices.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Well, a couple of things. And Mike knows the industry,
and you know, he's been a longtime industry expert and
an operator within the industry, so he knows the ins
and outs. But basically that comes down to six million
gallons of gasoline a day short. And what I mean
by that is we're down six million gallons of gasoline
a day and in state production.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
The only way that state can make that up. Keep
in mind, we have no pipelines coming into the state
of California, zero, none coming from anywhere else. So the
only way we can make that up is through maritime imports.
That is more tankers coming across the Pacific unloading in
the Port of la and up north in San Francisco.
(03:21):
So we're short six million now. Just to transport that
gasoline alone is anywhere from thirteen to seventeen cents a gallon,
which we'll be passed on to the California consumer.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Plus you have issues.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Of supply disruptions. Anything can happen when a ship is
at sea. We could have a typhoon that could delay imports.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
We could have a port.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Strike that could delay offloading of products. So We're in
quite a vulnerable situation right now.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Katie Grinds goes through some of the things that have
happened around the world. An oil tanker was seized by
Iran and the straight uh hornoneose severe weather conditions in
Alaska delaying oil tankers. Is there are a fewer delivering
oil now to California and on and on. I As
the thing is, what is the point in no return?
(04:14):
Does that mean anything specific that we are going to
see or is it just going to be a general
gradual decay with prices accelerating.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It could be quite.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Abrupt actually, because the one refinery, Phillip sixty six is
shut down. We call it it went cold. That means
it's not producing. Valero, which decided to announce to come
down on the thirtieth. It's the consensus among those of
us who watched the industry, and Mike brought it out
in his interview this probably January thirty first, is that
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that's going to shut down. Now, what's interesting is this
pipeline that connects northern California to southern California. We only
have three major pipelines that go north south, Okay, two heading,
so one heading north. The one heading north. It's called
the San Pablo Bay Pipeline, sometimes referred to as Crimson.
(05:07):
That pipeline feeds the two surviving refineries up in northern California.
If it goes down in it, by the way, it
moves as much as two hundred and.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Ten thousand barrels a day.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
If it goes down, then Northern California has no pipelines
going to it. The sole surviving refinery up there will
be PBF Martinez and they will most likely go maritime
for their imports. So Northern California will have basically Chevron
surviving up there and PBF surviving up there. Both of
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them will take their oil via maritime tankers. The Larra
will be down, the pipeline will be down, and costs
will go up considerably for Northern California residents.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Karisa said that the pipeline might be closing by the
middle of December. The largest inland oil pipeline, Crimson, that's
the one you were talking about.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
That is that's correct, the Crimson pipeline. That's a distinct possibility.
So they're operating. They can handle about two hundred and
ten thousand dollars a day. They are operating at fifteen
percent capacity right about now, well below the break even
point of that pipeline. The company's been losing money about
two million bucks a month or so, they say, which
(06:27):
they disclosed or informed.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
The governor of that.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So well, this is like an emergency.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, you would think though. I mean, we just published
a report this morning that said, look, here's a blueprint
for getting out of this mess. You can save the pipeline,
and you very well could maybe save a refinery up there,
but most of all, you would be reducing California's incredible
dependency on foreign oil. I mean, we're bringing in and
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spending about sixty million to seventy million dollars a day
that we pay from California to non US oil producers,
and that includes Iraq.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Saudi Arabia, Brazil, some of these.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Other countries, and we'll be importing that oil on non
US flag tankers.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Now, when we lose the refineries, we're going to have to.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Start importing six million gallons of gasoline a day to
keep up with themand that gasoline will be coming from
South Korea, India, and even China. So recently, this is
almost crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
It's coreot because we're using the same amount of oil,
so we're just importing it and it's adding a tremendous
amount of cost. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, I think you've a bit of perverse, right.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
It's not only adding cost, John, it's also contributing to
more increased greenhouse emissions. I mean, you know, if you
have a tanker coming across the Pacific for forty seven days,
that's a whole lot more emissions to get the oil
here than it is for us to produce the oil
off shore, say, you know, off of Santa Barbara.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
It's a fact. So we have oil. We have the fifth.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Largest reserves in the country. The question is why aren't
we using it? All right, we should be using those reserves.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, obviously, Arisa thinks AC's gas price is staring to
over eight dollars a gallon could go as high as twelve.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You think that's possible, Well, anything's possible in this industry.
I mean the eight dollars comes from an original study
I did back in April in May, but that was
predicated on higher crude oil prices. So the largest component
of gasoline price is the crude oil price, and under
President Trump, the price of crude oil has come down
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twenty percent from January. Now, the price of California gasoline
has not come down by a commensurate amount, and so
when you've dropped the price of crude, you'll drop the
price of gas. However, even today, I just computed it,
California gas line prices are fifty two percent higher than
the national average. And in one county they are approaching
(09:16):
six dollars a gallon up up in Mono County it's
it's like five dollars and ninety cents a gallon.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So our prices will start drifting up. If and when this.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Pipeline, the Crimson line drops, we can expect to see
a considerable increase in prices due to maritime track.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Can you hang on? I got to do the news.
I want to continue this because I also have the
stay out. I have the state by state gas price
from Triple A in front of me. I want to
talk to you about it when we come back, right,
So just hanging there for another segment we got. This
is Michael MChE USC, professor on the collapse of the
California's oil and gas industry.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
We continue now with Michael mcchey, the USC professor on
the goil and gas industry, hitting a what Katie Grimes
wrote in the California Globe today, maybe a point in
ozh return because we have one refinery that closed last month.
A second refinery is probably closing in January. Now, how
many refineries are left in the state.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Well, we only have seven left Johns, and that's down.
And that's down from forty three thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Oh my god, forty three to seven.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
All right.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I'm looking at TRIPAA website and they have the Every
day they update the state by state gas prices. Sorry,
I'm counting. Thirty two states are at three dollars or less,
and forty four states are at three dollars at thirty
cents or less. And then you got California sitting at
(10:50):
four fifty six. You know what the price of gas
is in Oklahoma two dollars and forty cents two forty.
Now we got a screen shot. I'm a listener who
is responding to one of our Facebook posts, and I
couldn't believe it was real. It was a dollar eighty five.
I don't know what state he was from. He didn't
say a dollar. It looked like a real photo.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Though.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Is that possible that somebody out there is paying a
dollar eighty five in this country and you're saying there's
one county near six here in California.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yes, there's one year six right now in California. That's
Mono County, and they're at five ninety a gallon. And
if you take a look at it. So under the
Trump administration, one of the stated goals of President Trump
was to bring the price of gasoline down to below
three dollars a gallon, and I think his most recent
goal is to be quite aggressive bring it down to
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two dollars a gallon. Problem with gasoline in California is
if the price of crude oil was zero, the price
of gas would still be the highest in the country
because we pay at least a dollar forty four in
taxes and fees associated with gasoline in this in this state,
so we have the highest state exercise tax, we have
(12:07):
cap and trade, we have the low Carbon Fuel Standard,
we have an underground storage tax, and we have county
and city municipal taxes. Collectively that's around a dollar forty
four gallon which you know, at these prices is twenty
five percent of the price of the gasoline that we pay.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Well, truck did his goal because today's triple A national
average is three dollars in one tenth of one cent.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yes, and I can assure you that he's very, very
happy with that because we got to that goal as
a country through policy of increasing production. So in the
United States right now, we're at all time high production rates.
We're producing thirteen zero point four million barrels of oil
a day, and so we are entirely self sufficient and
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beginning to be energy dominant, as was the president's ambition.
But when we look at California, it's been exactly the opposite.
We are becoming more dependent on foreign oil sources and
foreign carriers. So as the US is becoming less dependent,
California is becoming more dependent. And I think more alarmingly
(13:17):
for Californians is we're going to be getting gasoline from
refineries across the Pacific. And here's what's going to happen.
The offshore producers like those up in the San Jenese
Channel off of Santa Barbara, they'll produce oil. That oil
will go on a barge to La the oil that
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was unloaded from a foreign producer to an LA refinery.
That tanker will be loaded with California oil. That oil
will go to South Korea. It will return as California gasoline.
How absurd is that? And think about the devastating impact
on emissions in greenhouse emissions, and I'm a change. It's
(14:01):
just phenomenal. So there is a path out. My co
authors and I released a report this morning that hopefully
gets to the governor and we're more than happy to
go to Sacramento and to talk about it with him.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Describe your plan as simply as you can so everyone.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Can real simple. We have oil off.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
The coast of California. We can open up that oil field.
One particular company, I think it's one particular company, Sable,
which is somewhat contentious, but it has three hundred and
fifty thousand barrels of oil in a tank ready to go.
That oil can be released into the California system within
ninety six hours. In addition, they can produce forty five
(14:44):
thousand barrels a day. So our plan is to open
up that production, move that oil south to the refineries here.
The oil that's produced in current County can now go
north to the surviving refineries up there, which predominantly would
be Chevron and PBF. But PBF would take the oil,
(15:04):
assuming it's economically viable for them. If we did that,
we would be reducing our dependency on foreign oil, reducing
our dependency on foreign gasoline, stabilizing our prices, and saving
the pipelines that are so critical for the state. It's
a simple solution. It's all laid out in our report today.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Well, I wish we could make you governor for a
few months straighten this out. Michael Miche, Thank you for
coming on.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Appreciate it. John, you have a wonderful day.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, thank you for explaining it to everybody, Michael Miche,
the USC professor. So there you have it. We got
one major refinery closed closed in October October seventeenth in
Wilmington here in southern California, and then in Benetia, northern California.
Another refinery major closing in January. We're down to seven.
We used to have forty three. We used to import
(15:58):
four percent of our oil. Well now we're importing sixty
five to seventy percent of our oil. And it gets
worse and worse. And you know, Katie Grimes California Club
dot Com, just a good question, which you know might
sound hyperbolic, but you tell me where it's wrong. Could
Gavin Newsom be California's Nicholas Maduro, the socialist president of
(16:20):
Venezuela Because Maduro ended up taking over the oil industry
and destroying it in Venezuela and now they have massive
poverty and inflation. Newsom is destroying the middle class year
rights just as Maduro and Hugo Chavez did before him,
and threatening the takeover of California's oil and gas industry,
as Chaves did and Maduro continued to do. Yeah, Newsom
(16:44):
has threatened to take over the California industry, exactly what
they do in communist countries. I don't know how the
public allows this. I mean, I have seen major political
upheavals over gas prices all around the world. There's a
(17:06):
long history of that. And here the average price in
America is at three bucks. We're at four point fifty six,
as Michael Miche said, some places are up near six
in California. When we come back, Santa Monica is shutting
down a sober living home apparently mental patients and drug
(17:26):
addicts were being imported from other states to live there.
We'll talk about it.
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is so full of criminals and corruption. We're gonna play you.
Fox eleven reporter Matthew Seedorf. This is a sober living
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facility that opened up on Ocean Avenue, and that is
the avenue that overlooks the Santa Monica Beach and the
Pacific Ocean, right across the street from a family park,
Palisades Park. It looks like somebody opened up this sober
living home on their own without any permits and brought
(18:20):
in flew in drunks from places like Alabama and Virginia.
Really play this story, Matthew Sedor, Fox eleven.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
The mysterious vans on luxurious Ocean Avenue moving dozens of
people into a new, seemingly secret, sober transitional living facility
just before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
I was completely shocked.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Santa Monica's mayor's stunned by images of people living at
the controversial building, the same building that two months ago
had been suaited to become housing for those with severe
mental illness. This transparency until intense neighborhood pushback forced La
County to pause the project.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
While I was there, a van pulled up with about
ten more individuals, maybe more concerned that nobody could answer
what the name of the place was and who was
in charge?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Where were these people from?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
One I asked was from Alabama, another one was from Virginia.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Said, oh, did you drive here by car? And they're like, no, no, no,
we're flown.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
In neighbors fear. What they're seeing isn't a recovery operation,
but what's called body brokering, a process where people struggling
with addiction are recruited, sometimes from out of state, and
funneled into insurance funded programs for profit. This is a
legitimate concern, the possibility of body broker and happening here.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
It's unfortunately all too common and sober living practices where
folks are brought in sometimes from other states and offered money,
and they utilized their insurance to get money for them
to come in through the program, and it's exploiting a
vulnerable population.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Looks like it's empty at the moment.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
By Sunday, the more than forty people who had moved
into the building last week were suddenly gone after city
inspectors declared the property unpermitted and unsafe.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Think every body feels it will happen again.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
But residents worry this isn't the end of their fight
on Ocean Avenue. Amazing to me, a developer or a
private housing company can have a city playing cat and
mouse with the city like they're actually winning.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
They're building places, you know, places full of.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
People and the city doesn't know about it, and then
they got to get reactive and pull the people out.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
It's just it's it's just it's Santa Monica.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
So for now this building is supposed to stay empty.
But many people are wondering if that's what will happen
point in a lifetime in Santa Monica and Matthew Sedo
or Fox Revenues.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Have you any clue where those people were taken or
where they've gone.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Yeah, And that's what some people are wondering. I know
one of the locations was a location in Thousand Oaks.
But again, it's kind of all happening very secretively, and
a lot of people are wondering where they went.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Did you follow that this was a building that the
county and the city we're going to turn into some
kind of some kind of homeless shelter, rehabilitation shelter. I
don't know. So the crazy people were going to go
to the building and the residents got it stopped. The
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way I read this separately, somebody showed up and took
thirty people with them and gave them living conditions, gave
them a home in the same building, and nobody knew
who was in charge, what company was responsible for this,
(21:31):
just mystery. Vans showed up with thirty people and a
couple of them said they were flown in from Alabama
and Virginia, and it's some kind of insurance fraud. It's
another scam. Probably a nonprofit involved here, right, but nobody
knows which nonprofit, and I don't know if it was
(21:54):
connected to the original idea of sending homeless people and
giving him shelter. A woman named Kathleen went online to
give an update from just a few hours ago. Because
this story was from I guess yesterday, thirty people were
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moved into the building. The site had no fire safety clearance,
no license, no permits on the room divisions. The staff
could not explain who was running the operation or what
the program was. The city stepped in and issued a
twenty four hour vacate order. Everybody was relocated. Building is
now empty. This was not part of any approved city
(22:37):
or county program. So who did this the hell? So
you could be living in a neighborhood and in the
middle of the night you could have thirty drug addicts,
thirty mental patients, thirty alcoholics all move in on you,
and you go to the city. You don't know, county
doesn't know, Please don't know. There's nobody running the joint.
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What a dysfunctional mess this all places? Hey yeah, hey,
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Man?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Now terrible?
Speaker 4 (26:11):
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(26:59):
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Speaker 8 (27:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Now, you know, one of the side effects of the
ice raids here in Los Angeles is that a lot
of people have self deported. I mean they think like
a couple of million people self deported out of the
United States, and obviously thousands here in Los Angeles. And
(27:23):
you know, it's funny. They actually opened the Alley Time
story by saying Trump administration immigration crackdowns are driving unexpected
enrollment declines. Well, of course it would be expected. What
are you talking about. Everybody knew we had a significant
percentage of illegal alien kids and they didn't speak English.
(27:43):
Are you kidding me? Unexpected because the people, the people
who are like paying attention realize that, you know, the
jig is up here, you got to go back home.
Trump's got over three years left and he's going to
keep at it. So la un if I lost about
(28:06):
seven thousand more students than projected this year. Now do
we get a tax rebid on that or God forbid that?
Maybe they can, they can put it back into the
classrooms and into the supplies. I mean, I'm always hearing
about teachers going it's so unfair. We got to pay
for our own supplies. It's like, I don't know, seven
(28:27):
thousand students, that's a significant amount of money that's being saved.
How about give it to the taxpayers. And do we
need this many teachers and administrators? Shouldn't some of those
people be fired and we can make more of a
savings there. I mean, the schools I'm reading here in
LA keep shrinking and shrinking, because seriously, unless you're dirt poor,
(28:52):
why would you want to send your kid to a
Los Angeles public school? In most of the districts, there's
a few exceptions, but a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's terrible, terrible, and it's proven because three quarters of
the kids in eighth grade are not proficient in math
or in reading. Three quarters, So clearly the system is
a colossal failure. No parents should send their kid to
the LA school district, nobody. So what you end up
(29:24):
with is the very poor, and then you have the immigrants.
But the kids aren't speaking English anyway, so how could
they keep track of what's going on. And if the
kids are starting to leave because the parents are self deporting,
it's like, we'll give us the money back, give us
the money back and start firing people. Let's do some restructuring,
as they say in the corporate world, some right sizing.
(29:49):
And we're down to four hundred thousand students, not even
four hundred thousand here in LA used to be six
hundred thousand about twenty years ago. So the public school
system is shrinking, partly because it's a disaster, partly because
(30:09):
the middle class has to move out of Los Angeles.
You only seem to have for the most part, wealthy
areas in poor areas. And you know, then he had
a lot of a lot of a lot of students
couldn't speak English, and that really slowed the process down.
Oh hear this, here's this. Uh, there's there's one school.
(30:36):
This is in San Diego, Perkins, it's K through eight.
A third of the students at the school are homeless. Well,
what are we doing here? We we we're paying money
in San Diego for a school district, for a specific
school where one of the one third of the kids
are homeless because they're imigrants. But why are we doing this?
(30:57):
How is this helping the world? They they, This is
what happens when you allow this illegal migration. Is is parents.
This is brutal on the parents' part. What are they
doing to their kids bringing them here? I would I
would think going to school in uh in Central America
(31:19):
is better when you speak the language, and it's better
when you have a home nearby. Then coming here and
you don't speak the language and you don't have a home,
then of course, we like a bunch of suckers, are
paying for a whole mess a ridiculous all right, Tomorrow, Apostaton,
Debora and I will be there from one to four.
Deb's got some kind of some surprise thing that I'm
(31:42):
supposed to perform. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 8 (31:44):
Bring your money for that, folks, bring your money, trust me.
Really is gonna be worth money? Oh yeah, you think
I'm going to go through with this. I know you're
going to go through with this. I don't like the
way you said that I learned from the school of
Debora Mark. That's all right, that's really disturbing. All right,
So and then you can co host an hour on
the show. Here currt bid is thirty six hundred and
(32:06):
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Speaker 1 (32:16):
Conway is he in? He's gone, Conway's showed up for work?
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