Sponsor
Ken Calvert
Representative · R-CA
Representative · R-CA
The resolution favors increasing domestic oil availability—potentially lowering fuel costs and strengthening military and national energy security—while risking local pollution, community health harms, and slower investment in clean energy transitions.
Military forces, taxpayers, and other energy consumers would gain greater energy security and resilience from reduced reliance on imported oil, potentially lowering operational fuel expenses for the military and reducing geopolitical supply risks.
Middle‑class families and small businesses could see lower fuel and transportation costs if findings lead to policies that increase domestic oil supply or prioritize lower-cost domestic sources.
Rural and other local communities near expanded oil production or refining could face increased air and water pollution and related environmental harms if production is prioritized.
Prioritizing fossil fuel expansion could slow investment in clean energy and energy-efficiency measures, delaying long-term emissions reductions and potential consumer savings from cleaner energy transitions.
Communities near production and refining sites could experience direct health and land‑use costs (e.g., respiratory or other health impacts), imposing local public‑health burdens.
Based on analysis of 1 section of legislative text.
Makes formal findings that state regulatory limits on oil production, refining, and infrastructure raise gasoline prices, harm working families, and weaken national security.
Official title: Condemning State-level energy policies that restrict domestic oil production, increase gasoline prices, and undermine American energy security and national defense.
Introduced April 29, 2026 by Ken Calvert · Last progress April 29, 2026
States findings that stress affordable, reliable energy is essential for households, businesses, and national security and that some state regulatory policies — cited as contributing to higher gasoline prices in certain states like California — limit supply, raise costs for working-class Americans, increase military costs and readiness risks, and heighten reliance on imports. It concludes that limits on domestic oil production, refining, and infrastructure would raise prices, reduce production, and weaken national security, while noting that U.S. oil (especially Gulf production) has lower greenhouse-gas intensity than many foreign sources.