CPPC Submits Letter in Support of AB-X2-1 to Address Refinery Inventory and Gas Prices
SAN DIEGO (September 24, 2024) – The University of San Diego (USD) School of Law Consumer Protection Policy Center (CPPC) at the Centers for Public Interest Law (CPIL) submitted a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom in support of AB-X2-1. This bill will protect consumers from price gouging practices that have harmed the people of California in recent years.
Earlier this month, the governor called the legislature to a special session to address California's high gas prices. CPPC believes that authorizing the California Energy Commission to require petroleum refiners to maintain a minimum inventory of refined fuel will help avoid supply shortages that result in higher prices at the pump for consumers. Furthermore, authorizing the California Energy Commission to require refiners to plan for resupply during scheduled refiner maintenance will minimize the likelihood of future unjustifiable price hikes.
To read CPPC’s letter, click here.
To read the bill, click here.
About Consumer Protection Policy Center
Founded in 1980, the University of San Diego School of Law’s Consumer Protection Policy Center (CPPC) at the Centers for Public Interest Law (CPIL) serves as an academic center of research and advocacy in regulatory and public interest law. CPPC focuses its efforts on the study of an extremely powerful, yet often overlooked, level of government: state regulatory agencies. Under the supervision of experienced public interest attorneys and advocates, CPPC law student interns study California agencies that regulate business, professions, and trades.
CPPC publishes the California Regulatory Law Reporter, a unique legal journal that covers the activities and decisions of over 13 major California regulatory agencies.
In addition to its academic program, CPPC has an advocacy component. Center faculty, professional staff, and interns represent the interests of the unorganized and underrepresented in California’s legislature, courts, and regulatory agencies. CPPC attempts to make the regulatory functions of California government more efficient and visible by serving as a public monitor of state regulatory activity. The Center has been particularly active in reforming the state’s professional discipline systems for attorneys and physicians, and in advocating public interest reforms to the state’s open meetings and public records statutes.
About the University of San Diego School of Law
Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world. The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest law and taxation.
USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates. The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 30th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 41st nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.