{"id":791354,"date":"2026-05-19T04:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lasvegasrealestatereview.com\/?p=791354"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:57:34","slug":"letter-californias-energy-folly-is-nevadas-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lasvegasrealestatereview.com\/?p=791354","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: California\u2019s energy folly is Nevada\u2019s problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lasvegasrealestatereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/21685165_web1_newsom.jpg?w=1170&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Jerry Sturdivant\u2019s May 12 letter blames recent foreign policy for Nevada\u2019s fuel woes, but his Strait of Hormuz argument ignores 26 years of structural decay in our own backyard. This crisis transcends whoever sits in the White House. It is a regional infrastructure failure decades in the making.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of federal leadership, Nevada is tethered to a shrinking California \u201cenergy island.\u201d Since 2000, California\u2019s refinery count has plummeted from 23 to just 11, with only eight still producing transportation fuels. This exodus is driven by California\u2019s hostile regulatory environment and a collapse in domestic production, not just temporary global conflicts. Consequently, California now imports more than 60 percent of its crude and has doubled its foreign gasoline imports since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Nevada receives 88 percent of its fuel via California. When California\u2019s infrastructure becomes brittle due to state-level policy choices, Nevadans pay the price, regardless of who is in the Oval Office. Mr. Sturdivant\u2019s suggestion to build a refinery on the Strip is a sarcastic distraction from the real work needed to diversify our supply.<\/p>\n<p>Relief lies in projects by Phillips 66 and Kinder Morgan to bring Gulf Coast fuel westward by 2029, alongside Nevada\u2019s efforts to increase in-state storage. Until we look east toward Texas and the domestic heartland rather than just west toward a failing California grid, Nevada\u2019s energy security will remain at the mercy of a broken supply chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is relief on the way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2826,"featured_media":791356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-housing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LETTER: California\u2019s energy folly is Nevada\u2019s problem - 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