Penalty would return portion of profits to consumers via rebates

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Watchdog noted that a California refiner, Marathon Petroleum, reported profits of 75 cents per gallon for 2022. Such profits indicate that Marathon Petroleum is “virtually doubling what it made the year before, strengthening the case for the California legislature to enact a windfall profits penalty,” according to a Consumer Watchdog statement.

Meanwhile, gas prices have been dropping in California, as

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How long it will take legislators on the 18-member Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities, and Communications to move forward or not on the governor’s price-gouging penalty on major oil companies is unclear. As proposed, this penalty would return part of their profits to consumers in the form of rebates, with many details on that process unclear.

Democratic Sen. Steven Bradford is the chair of the California Legislative Black community in combating any and all acts of bias and hate. “If you see or hear anything, please report it to school site leaders.”

The discovery of the swastika comes as hateful anti-Semitic fliers were distributed in the Isla Vista/UCSB area.

“In general, seeing such a string of events in such a short period of time is unsettling and disheartening,” said Tessa Veksler, a UCSB student and a Jewish leader at the university.

Miss Veksler, a collegiate senator for UCSB’s College of Letters and Sciences, said about 400 to 500 fliers with anti-Semitic content were distributed on Tuesday.

“The fliers contained Holocaust denial and

Caucus, Chair of the Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities, and Communications, representing the Los Angeles County communities of Carson, Compton, Gardena, Harbor City, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lennox, San Pedro, Torrance, Watts, Willowbrook, and Wilmington.

GOP Sen. Brian Dahle is the vice chair of the same committee, representing California’s 1st Senate District that contains all or parts of 11 counties, from Alpine, El Dorado, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, common anti-Semitic tropes,” she said.

Six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime and its allies during the Holocaust, prior to the regime’s defeat in World War II.

“It is important to acknowledge that antiSemitism happens on all ends of the political spectrum,” Miss Veksler said. “I think it is difficult not to see a pattern in the rise in antiSemitic attacks, but … we don’t know who distributed these things.”

“The Jewish community has come together in a strong and empowering way,” said Miss Veksler, who’s co-president of UCSB’s Students Supporting Israel and campus liaison on UCSB’s Chabad board. “It is important to shine light on the incredible response from the Jewish community and non-Jewish community to be proactive supporters.”

Rabbi Evan Goodman of Santa Barbara

Sacramento, Sierra, Siskiyou to Shasta.

There are 4 Republicans and 14 Democrats on the Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities, and Communications. There is no scheduled date for this committee to meet next.

In the meantime, Consumer Watchdog has recommended penalties begin after profits of 50 cents a gallon, as the Legislature is considering a bill, SBx12 (Skinner-D), to enact a windfall profits cap on how much oil refiners can make in profit per gallon of gasoline.

Hillel, which serves Jewish students at UCSB and in Isla Vista, said, “All of these antiSemitic flyers, graffiti and literature are horrible and create a sense of discomfort, unease and threat in the community and need to be condemned by the entire community, not just the Jewish community.”

He also commented on the swastika.

“As a parent of two students who graduated from Dos Pueblos, that incident especially pains me,” Rabbi Goodman told the NewsPress. “These events are extremely visible.”

Rabbi Goodman added, “There was an event on campus at UCSB that resulted in a class that had many Jewish students being unable to meet due to the threat to their safety, and that is far more concerning to me.” email: kzehnder@newspress.com

The following day against then-number-19 Arizona State, Honer and Reuter faced off with the Sun Devils’ top doubles team, ranked 9th in the country, but their match did not finish. Honer, herself ranked 49th among singles players, won the first set of her singles match, but the dual ended before her match could. Honer and the Gauchos play their home opener next, welcoming #24 USC to the Arnhold Tennis Center for a noon dual on Feb. 12. A new set of ITA rankings for singles players and doubles partnerships will be released ahead of that match, on Feb. 8. Eric Boose writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

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