Restoring a pipeline system vital to our national security and defense

Trump Administration Invokes Defense Production Act to Restart Offshore Oil Operations in California

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Friday directed Sable Offshore Corp. to restore operations at the Santa Ynez Unit and the Santa Ynez Pipeline System off the coast of Santa Barbara, invoking the Defense Production Act to force the restart of shuttered offshore oil production in a state that has spent decades trying to kill it.

The order marks a direct challenge to California's anti-energy regulatory regime and sets up an inevitable legal collision with Gov. Gavin Newsom, who wasted no time calling the move "reckless and illegal."

According to Fox Business, the Department of Energy laid out the national security rationale in blunt terms:

"California once supplied nearly 40 percent of U.S. oil production, but decades of radical state policies targeting reliable energy sources have driven a decline in domestic output while fuel demand remains among the highest in the nation."

Today, more than 60 percent of the oil refined in California comes from overseas, with a significant share traveling through the Strait of Hormuz. That is not an energy policy. That is a vulnerability.

A state that once supplied nearly 40 percent of American oil production now cannot fuel itself without routing tankers through waters patrolled by the Iranian navy.

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