In case you missed it, Representative Mike Garcia (CA-27) wrote an op-ed in the Santa Clarita Valley Signal on Saturday responding to Governor Gavin Newsom’s legislative push in Sacramento to punish energy providers for price gouging, a claim that is unsubstantiated and untrue.

In the piece, Garcia writes:

“When you factor in all of the taxes and regulations that the state of California imposes on the energy industry, the government makes $0.97 per gallon of gas purchased in our state. Meanwhile, those big bad oil companies receive $0.37 per gallon of gas purchased here. Governor Newsom and his bureaucrats in Sacramento are making more than double the money that most oil suppliers do per gallon of gas, while you continue to pay sky-high prices due to Sacramento’s radical policies. When you’re feeling pain at the pump, Newsom has one hand in your pocket while he points the other at oil companies and spouts false accusations of price gouging.”

Click here to read the full op-ed.