Anonymous
Source: Office of Rep. Salud Carbajal
Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal, Chairman of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee, joined President Joe Biden at the White House as he signed a bipartisan measure aimed at reducing supply chain disruptions, cracking down on inflated shipping fees, and lowering costs for Central Coast families and businesses.
“It seems that no one in America today doesn’t know the phrase ‘supply chain disruption.’ That’s why, as Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, I’ve held hearings on these ongoing bottlenecks and met with stakeholders across all industries who’ve felt the pain of these disruptions—including those who’ve had problems with ocean carriers,” said Rep. Carbajal. “I was proud to stand with President Biden today to get this bipartisan overhaul of our shipping rules signed into law, and I was proud to work with the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to promote this important legislation that will protect American manufacturers and farmers and counter trade imbalances with foreign exporting countries.”
The Ocean Shipping Reform Act will help level the playing field by empowering the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) to strengthen oversight of the shipping market and lower costs for consumers. This legislation will boost funding for the FMC and implement several key measures:
- Combating exorbitant shipping costs by strengthening FMC enforcement action against exploitative business practices.
- Ensuring fairness in shipping by improving transparency and prohibiting ocean carriers from unreasonably refusing to transport American cargo.
Through his role as Chairman of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee, Congressman Carbajal has held key hearings and met with stakeholders to highlight the impact that supply chain disruptions and maritime shipping cost increases are having on American families.
The Ocean Shipping Reform Act has been endorsed by a broad coalition of trade groups, including the National Association of Manufacturers, American Association of Exporters and Importers, National Retail Federation, Association of Food Industries and Consumer Technology Association.
Earlier this week, Rep. Carbajal joined Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to send the Ocean Shipping Reform Act to the President’s desk. They were joined by Reps. Kim Schrier (WA), Peter DeFazio (OR), John Garamendi (CA) and Jim Costa (CA) (left to right).
Additional Background:
Rep. Carbajal and his colleagues in Congress have been working around the clock to advance policies that will lower costs for Central Coast families and small businesses.
Earlier today, Rep. Carbajal voted to advance the Lower Food and Fuel Costs Act to slash prices in grocery aisles and at the gas pump by supporting America’s farmers and ranchers.
The legislation crafted by Carbajal and his colleagues on the House Agriculture Committee would address rising cost of fertilizer for California farmers, which is driving up food costs at grocery stores nationwide; increase competition in consolidated meat and poultry markets; promote renewable energy and biofuel production; and strengthen the U.S. food supply chain.
Carbajal has previously helped pass the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act to combat Big Oil’s excessive gas price hikes.
And earlier this year, Rep. Carbajal and the U.S. House advanced the America COMPETES Act to strengthen the United States’ broken supply chains and prevent food shortages.
Additionally, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law delivered $17 billion in funding for the United States’ ports and waterways – the largest-ever federal investment in port infrastructure.
Rep. Salud Carbajal represents California’s 24th congressional district, encompassing Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and part of Ventura County. He sits on the House Armed Services Committee, Agriculture Committee, and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, where he serves as the Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
So Biden campaigns on a promise to shut down the oil and gas industry and phase out fossil fuels. He gets elected and makes good on his promise. Domestic production and investment in new oil and gas infrastructure has declined substantially, as planned. Naturally, oil prices have correspondingly skyrocketed. Turns out that part of the plan isn’t very popular. Now the same politicians that caused our energy crisis are trying to blame the oil industry?!?? It’s not going to work. If the goal is to make fuel more affordable to help reduce the cost of fuel and all goods made with or transported with fuel (pretty much everything) then the solution is to elect politicians who will ensure the oil industry can get leases to drill and can get permits to build new pipelines (keystone xl anyone?), new refinining capacity, etc. this will not be easy going forward because these kinds of infrastructure projects take many years to complete and investors have learned that if someone like Biden gets elected their project can get cancelled and all the money they spent on it will be lost. Going forward, the government will have to provide legal and/or financial guarantees to protect investors in oil and gas infrastructure from that risk. Threatening the oil industry with regulations and price controls is laughable. That approach has never worked and never will. Biden is the new jimmy carter, the question now is who will be the new Ronald Regan to replace him in 2024.
ChipOfSB: The “BandAid” approach that Carbajal and Co are taking in regard is just a tad late as they’ve done nearly nothing so far to help the economy…quite the opposite. It is hard to believe that a POTUS is relegated to the bottom of the dust-bin (below Jimmy Carter?? Yikes!!!) of US presidential history so early in their administration, but it is what it is. Unfortunately, this lame-duck president and his administration is scrambling ONLY because their polling so low. Even some of the folks at MSNBC and CNN are publicly pointing out his cognitive decline. Did any of you see President Biden on Jimmy Kimmel? My gawwwwwwd!! His people better do something quick if they wants to save the American people and our allies across the world. This is what you get when you have a prez essentially in hiding. There is no confidence from any of the world leaders, quite the opposite….they don’t think he’s going to be able to complete his term, but no one….like NO ONE wants Ms. Plan B to be in charge.
Chip, cost of fuel wouldn’t be an issue if everyone just bought electric cars, duh! Of course, our electric grid has no where near the capacity to handle all that demand let alone supply it via carbon free sources.
I’m old enough to remember when Trump pushed to include $3B in the $2T stimulus plan (0.15% of the total stimulus) to buy petroleum at historically low prices to add to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but that was shutdown buy Chuck Schumer(D) who nixed it from the final appropriations bill and called it a “$3 billion bailout for big oil”. And now with record high petroleum prices, Biden released oil from the Reserve in a [failed] effort to lower fuel prices. Do you remember? That same oil would be worth $6B plus today, yet here we are…. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-25/trump-s-thwarted-oil-buy-would-ve-given-biden-6-billion-bonanza#xj4y7vzkg __and__ https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/26/us-suspends-plans-to-buy-oil-after-funding-is-left-out-of-2-trillion-stimulus-package.html
Echo echo echo…?
SBO, the Russia collusion hoax was all over every network for four years, no Fox News needed. Journalist even won Pulitzers for writing about… a hoax. Sounds like you still believe the 2016 election was stolen…. how are you any different than those that believe the 2020 election was stolen? (hint, they’re not different, they’re both extremists positions separated from reality).
SBO (and others): Just a bit of free advice for you about preparation. It is very important to prepare for anything/everything as best we can. Earthquakes, fires, “rainy day” savings, and so on. The upcoming November elections are going to upset a lot of posters here, especially those who hate/despise anything Republican. Beyond the November elections are the 2024 elections, the main one being for the POTUS. There is a better than 50/50 chance that a Republican will be in the White House after the next election, and….wait for it…that person could be Donald Trump. No one, but NO ONE, thought he could do it in 2016, and the same goes for 2024, but consider the possibility and PREPARE yourself for it. It is what it is, and the current state of affairs brought to us by the current pols is not good. Hate me for this message if you must, but don’t blame “the messenger.”
Truer words were never spoken: United we stand; Divided we fall. Namaste to all of you my fellow Americans and non-Americans.
Good weekend to be outside and enjoy our mountains and coastline (and don’t forget about our wonderful Channel Islands!)
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/planetpolicy/2022/04/20/politicians-need-to-square-with-the-american-people-on-gasoline-prices/
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. summarized the majority Democrats’ position when he accused the oil companies of “ripping off the American people” and “at a time of record profits… refusing to increase production.” But oil is a globally fungible good with a price set on the global market. None of the U.S. oil companies is large enough to have much influence on these prices. Furthermore, these companies make production decisions based on business criteria, including expected future prices, availability of capital, and the company’s appetite for risk. Since the U.S. companies cannot influence the global oil price, whether the new production will reduce prices is not one of these criteria. Members of the OPEC+ group could make up for much of the oil missing today, but are thus far refusing to increase production, in part for their own economic self-interest and in part because Russia is a member of the group and they don’t want to be involved in the geopolitics of the Ukraine invasion.”
“Republicans blamed the Biden administration’s policies, from cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline to pausing oil and gas leases on federal lands, for reducing U.S. oil production. Rep. Morgan Griffith said that “It is impossible to generate confidence or invest in production today when future production is clearly being blocked by this administration.” Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers added, “This is not the Putin price hike. This is the Biden price hike.”
In reality, none of President Biden’s moves have reduced today’s oil production. Any lease that had been established during his administration would not be producing yet, so the pause on leasing has had no effect on today’s oil production or gasoline prices. A lease to produce oil and gas is only the first step; obtaining permits, building infrastructure, and establishing the best places to drill can take years in a new production area. Additionally, only about one-quarter of U.S. oil production takes place on federal lands; the rest occurs on private property. Federal lands are not the only choice for expanded production. Timing is also an issue in the case of the Keystone XL pipeline. Since the pipeline was not yet operating, its cancellation did not change U.S. oil supply from Canada. Even if construction had continued, the pipeline would not yet be completed. Finally, the pipeline would not have carried new oil production, especially in its early days. Oil that might have been carried through the pipeline is reaching the market through other means, and thus already having its small impact on global oil prices.”
” Given the acrimony in U.S. politics today, this isn’t surprising, but misinformation on the real cause of high gasoline prices is a disservice to U.S. citizens. Democrats blame the oil and gas industry and Republicans blame President Joe Biden, but global market forces are the real culprit. Better understanding of the energy system, among policymakers and ordinary people, is crucial as the United States and world strive to transition to a system with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
Rising U.S. gasoline prices are the result of global oil market conditions. U.S. gasoline prices reached their highest average level ever (in nominal terms) of $4.41 per gallon in March, but prices have been rising steadily since they bottomed out in April 2020. Global and U.S. oil production decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, as demand and prices plummeted. Now demand is recovering faster than production, leading to rising prices even before the Ukraine crisis.
That’s just adding more con excrement to the thread. The corporations jacking up their prices, especially the windfall profits of the carbon oligarchs, here and worldwide, are driving the price increases throughout the economy.
What I see here is exactly what the government wants! Everyone divided while they control everything. There is no winning or better side they’re all in it together against us! While we fight each other they all make $ it’s the way the system is set up. But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, ’cause they own this fucking place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people — white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on — good honest hard-working people continue — these are people of modest means — continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you at all — at all — at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
George Carlin
2:31, I think you make a really good point, and I think the rot and corruption runs far deeper than you have suggested. I have been scratching my head trying to figure out why the democrats and the Biden administration have implemented anti-oil policies which were so obviously self destructive to their upcoming election prospects. Given the “pain at the pump” it seems almost certain the republicans will win congress in November, and likely the presidency in 2024. The resulting policy changes will make big oil even bigger and more powerful than ever before. It’s going to be an American oil renaissance! How did we get here? Well, I think the answer is obvious. The big republican owned oil and carbon industry giants made a plan. They secretly advanced a so-called “green” agenda, promoting the idea that carbon emissions would destroy the planet among liberals and democrats. Because democrats are such well intentioned and generous people, they felt action was required to save the world from carbon. They were willing to make sacrifices to do it. However, they had not realized that they had been duped by big oil all along. Joe Biden has not implemented a “green” agenda at all. Instead, he has fallen for the trap set by big oil. With the best of intentions, he has tanked the US economy by slamming the brakes on energy production, just the way the republicans planned it. Now the democrats’ electoral chances are doomed for the foreseeable future and the big republican oil industry complex is poised to seize reigns of power.
Wow, a detailed comment by Edney with lots of specifics — and your response is….. it’s just more “con excrement” and then regurgitation of DNC politician soundbites without any specifics our actual counterpoints to the ones presented. Okay, thank you for your contribution. Take BabyCakes advice and brace for November.
If there are enough people out there like our voices of sheep of SB and their sock puppets, willing to be led around by a ring in their right nostril, endlessly bleating out whatever propaganda their personality cult feeds them, then Putin may be on to something – democracy is doomed.
Couple of some of the worst Americans (is carb American?) in history. Love how he’s trying to reverse his and previous dem policy now that they are stepping all over themselves. Nice post Chip. You are spot on.
When you talk and write like an illiterate bigot, the only people who care what you think are illiterate, bigots…
Proving once again that the modern Republican party has become the party of the uneducated and woefully unaware… Which is truly amazing considering not a single Republican policy helps anyone who makes less than $1m a year or receives a w2… Not a single bill, policy or otherwise. Think different? Cite them.
I read a nice article on CNN this morning I think you should read which contained this quote: “You really can’t begin to understand an adversary unless you step away from looking at their views as motivated in bad faith.” – Supremum Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor 6/16/22. Every time the word “bigot”, “racists”, “extremist” is mentioned here, the writer is simply showing their ignorance and inability to understand others points of view and how those with differing solutions or viewpoints can still be coming from a good place. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/politics/sonia-sotomayor-supreme-court-clarence-thomas/index.html
When you can read the words but you miss their meaning…
The $54B in military aid is more than the entire annual military budget of Russia from what I’ve read. I wonder how many solar panels, windfarms, and battery/power storage facilities that could have funded? (at $1.3M per MW for wind, that’s 41,500 MW – all of CA’s wind and solar is currently only 18,000 MW!) How many EV’s could have been purchased or subsidized for low-income households that could never afford an EV otherwise? (at $30K a piece that’s 1,800,000 EV’s!). We have both the resources and ability to address these issues, however our political leaders prefer war, division, political gamesmanship, and appeasing their oligarch/corporate interests over actually solving these problems – regardless of the empty promises made ahead of every election.
It’s hard to find when you don’t look: A careful analysis of the IRS tax data, one that includes the effects of tax credits and other reforms to the tax code, shows that filers with an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $15,000 to $50,000 enjoyed an average tax cut of 16 percent to 26 percent in 2018, the first year Republicans’ Tax Cuts and Jobs Act went into effect and the most recent year for which data is available.
Filers who earned $50,000 to $100,000 received a tax break of about 15 percent to 17 percent, and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 in adjusted gross income saw their personal income taxes cut by around 11 percent to 13 percent.
By comparison, no income group with an AGI of at least $500,000 received an average tax cut exceeding 9 percent, and the average tax cut for brackets starting at $1 million was less than 6 percent.
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SBO, which party did Wall Street, Big Tech, and Big Pharma donate records amounts to? When these oligarch/elite controlled industries support politicians, are they doing it for the betterment of Americans and their workers, or to improve their profits and benefit their shareholders?
Republicans own the oil, and shipping. They are causing the inflation by driving up oil prices, bottle necking shipping of goods… as did Rep Gov Abbott in Texas . Last time oil was over $118 dollars, gas prices were $3.18 . If any thing, it’s the republicans causing the inflation problem just so they can gain control power and say see….they don’t care about Americans only themselves. Just as Mitchy blocked all of Obama’s bills, they are now doing the same, disgusting , as demonstrated with the big lie, they really need to be out of office. They are a current and present danger to the USA.
A single bill from 2018 that added over 1 trillion dollars to our deficit is what you cite as a successful Republican policy? HAHA, this is why you’re broke buddy… And when the so-called “middle class credit” which was actually just a short term cut in payroll taxes (later to be clawed back) expired? And how about the impact the Trump tariffs? Estimated to cost each family $1000 +/- a year in added costs?
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Based on your posts I can assume that you don’t understand this: But people who make and have a lot of money, don’t receive w2’s. They receive k1s and use the carried interest rules, capital gain/ losses and live via loans against their holdings…
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Ideology is not policy.
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Sun, you say republicans are a “current and present danger to the USA” and that republicans “need to be out of office.” What exactly are you proposing?
Excuse me? You claimed, and I quote “not a single Republican policy helps anyone who makes less than $1m a year or receives a w2… Not a single bill, policy or otherwise.” I provided a “single” bill that directly benefited for those earning under $100K and your response is basically ‘that just a single bill’ and them some rambling about how the wealthy make their money, which doesn’t have anything do with your comment I responded to. I know your not incompetent, so it must be intentional ignorance. Please read that article on Sotomayor I posted.
The amount of ignorance here, and the disapproval of actual stats/data, is truly amazing.
Huh? No you didn’t. You replied with an interpretation of the results of the tax bill. Not the actual facts or the actual figures that resulted from the actuality of that bill. Go on over to the CBO, read the actual figures. Study the facts. Read about the actual, net results. Do not cite some website, do not cite some random opinion, do not look to validate your bias. Study the figures and try to understand them. If you don’t understand them, ask someone who does to explain them to you…
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Cite the policies. Cite the bills and show us the votes. Do the work if you want the credit.
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Chip, I am stating electing “people” who help “Americans” and not obstructionists only purpose is to make a President look bad (so the repubs can make money) and hurt Americans pocket book. Oil Republicans who drive up oil prices, are no doubt hurting Americans pocket books, even as the oil industry receives Billions from the government. GOP Abbot blocking trucks, creating bottle neck in the supply chain, how does this help Americans? Attacking the Capital and then supporting the lie, how does this help Americans. Follow the money…
The oil industry owned by the Republicans is causing inflation for food and products.
Yeah, keep those goal posts moving….
You can debate tax policy and energy policy and any other policy all you want. Come November, the analysis for the average swing voter boils down to one simple question. “Am I better off now than I was 2 years ago?”
2 years ago? You mean when we couldn’t get meat or other necessities. Toilet paper was missing from the shelves. Hospitals were 98% full. The economy was shedding more jobs than at any other point in modern history? The markets were in free fall. 100’s of thousands of Americans were about to die? Millions more were sick… If that’s your measure, then EVERYONE is better off…
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Thanks for playing. However, maybe you should stick to playing Fisher Price teaches Political Science…
10:06 – Yes! You should stop doing such things!
“actual stats/data” – you mean like Norway and France having more mass shootings than the USA? Or, how about how certain states allow the “killing of babies?” Which stats/data are you talking about?
Well said, Sun. The Oil industry is so hellbent on maintaining their billion dollar profits that they’re holding us hostage by price gouging us before the midterms so those who aren’t very astute will blame it on Democrats and vote accordingly – thus securing the financial stronghold Big Oil has on us if Democracy loses.
Voice, you got me thinking. We’re talking about the oil and gas industry, the Biden administration and its energy policies, and Ukraine. Joe Biden has used the power of his office to stifle the US oil and gas industry in an effort to force what many are calling the “transition” to other forms of energy. It seems rather ironic that back when Joe was Vice President, his son Hunter actually did a lot of work in the gas industry in Ukraine, or at least he got paid as if he did a lot of work. I would really like to know more about his involvement in the ukranian gas industry, what work he did, and how Joe might have helped out using his position as Vice President. Hopefully we will get to find out more about what the Biden’s were up to in Ukraine when the impeachment proceedings start next year.
Re that first sentence: Not very much.
Sun, that starts with drastically increasing our carbon-free power generation, and signfincitaly upgrading our distribution system. In related news, as energy grid operators warn of forced blackouts throughout the country due to high demand this summer season, climate champions Barack and Michelle Obama pulled permits to install a large solar farm, turbine and battery bank installation at their sea-level ocean front estate (the one in Martha’s Vineyard, not the ocean front estate in Hawaii). Oh wait, my bad! Not solar, wind, and batteries, it was a permit for a 2,500 gallon propane tank.
Lina, I think it’s safe to say with the incredible amount of scrutiny on the Trumps since 2015, through two impeachments, numerous hearings, investigations, etc. and having nearly every “journalist” with the MSM chopping at the bit to burry them – if there was something there, we would know about. Now that you bring it up, what ever happened to the “proof” CA Representative Adam Schiff repeatedly said he had that Trump colluded with Russia to get elected? Hmmm…
No wonder you guys are so mad. You actually fall for this junk! No matter how asinine or ridiculous. No matter how often the info is disputed as false, you still fall for the same things! Over and over and over and over…
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Chip, I sincerely want to thank you for making it so easy to make so much money the last few years. Seriously. You Fox watching righties / Trumpers are a gift that just keeps on giving. Like taking candy from a baby!
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Barnum was as correct 100 years ago as he is today…
Can anyone actually be impartial for a second, and imagine what the response would have been if Don Jr. broke federal firearms laws by lying on a firearm application and his dad swept it under the rug? (i.e. did what Hunter did). There would have been RIOTS!!!
SBO, you believed Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election, so calling out others for believing junk (some of which is actually true) throws mud on your face.
Tell us you only watch FoxNews without telling us you only watch FoxNews.
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The coming months are going to really hard on your sense of right and wrong. Are you ready to repent and ask for forgiveness? Or are you going to go the Republican Jesus route and just make up your own rules, history, facts and pretend that you’re not actually a bad person and continue to do the opposite of what Jesus taught?
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you believe Norway and France have more mass shootings than the United States and that certain US states “allow killing babies”, so calling out others for believing junk (some of which is actually true) throws mud on your face.