Matt Newsom

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

"NO KINGS" crowd greets King Charles with a standing ovation

[US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA]

Good evening @RepRoKhanna. We hope you had a nice Saturday.

Several people have requested we comment on your post. We will quickly before we take Mrs. USOGA out for date night.

First - like you, we hope this war will end soon and things will return to normal. Until then - things will be what they will be.

But high gas prices in your district aren’t “Trump’s war”—they’re Sacramento’s doing.

California drivers pay nearly double the national average in state taxes, plus cap-and-trade, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, unique reformulated gasoline, refinery limits, and geographic isolation that blocks cheap imports.

That adds $1.00–$1.78+ over the U.S. average.

Here is our suggestion. Your proposed windfall profits tax will do nothing to bring relief to your overtaxed and underappreciated constituents.

Instead -suspend those state-level taxes first and bring California prices in line with the national average.

Put your state bureaucracy on a diet. They could stand to shed a few pounds.

Encourage California domestic oil and gas production and expand your refinery capacity instead of shutting it down.

Stand up to your Governor. You know he is wrong and you can be on the right side of things

And let's talk windfall profits tax.

They don't work. While you don't call it a windfall profits tax, California recently passed one and called it a "wealth tax" now you see high net worth individuals fleeing your state.

History proves it backfires.

The 1980 Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax cut domestic production 1–8% (hundreds of millions of barrels lost), boosted imports 3–13%, raised far less revenue than projected after deductions, created massive bureaucracy, and was repealed in 1988 because it discouraged supply exactly when America needed more.

That in turn led us to depend even more on Middle East imports for another 20 years right up until the shale revolution occurred. Kind of like how California is dependent on imports now.

Your repeated sponsorship of a new Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act would repeat the exact same mistake—shrinking U.S. output and raising costs.

Crude exports? They expand global supply, narrow price spreads (WTI-Brent) which is exerts downward pressure on world prices.

It is directly helping allies in Europe and Asia counter China's skirting sanctions and colluding with Iran to purchase crude at huge discounts.

Restricting exports would tighten markets, spike costs everywhere—including here—and hurt the consumers you claim to protect.

Finally we must also point out that
your voting record shows consistent opposition to our industry you want to tax. For example, you:

Voted against leasing more public lands and waters for oil drilling (2023, Roll Call 23).

Voted against reversing land-management protections to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas drilling—multiple times, including 2025 Roll Call 295 and earlier efforts to halt ANWR development.

Opposed critical oil and gas leasing reforms and fast-tracking fossil-fuel infrastructure (2024 Roll Call 95; 2025 votes undermining LNG authority and blocking fracking bans).

Voted NO on NDAA provisions that would expedite oil/gas permitting (2022–2023).

You have a 99% lifetime League of Conservation Voters score—near-perfect opposition to domestic energy exploration, production and leasing.

You’ve led hearings attacking us and sponsored bills to repeal industry tax provisions.

Fine—own that record.

But please stop shifting blame to “Trump’s war” or federal policy while California’s own choices keep your constituents paying the highest pump prices in America.

Real relief comes from more American supply + streamlined permitting, not recycled 1980s taxes or more restrictions.

Energy abundance, not rhetoric, lowers prices and bolsters U.S. and allied security.

Mrs. USOGA has instructed us to put the phone away so we will do that.

Have a good weekend.

[Matt Newsom @mrn9b]

@ByDavidTeel If these same refs did every game in a series, it would only go 4 games…..

[Matt Newsom @mrn9b]

@cwdarney Worst officiated UVA basketball game in UVA basketball history

[Matt Newsom @mrn9b]

@JerryRatcliffe How does Odom discuss the refs post game?

[Matt Newsom @mrn9b]

The refs in the UVA game should all lose their game check and be fired and never work another game again

[Matt Newsom @mrn9b]

The refs in Philadelphia hate UVA basketball

[CBB Kings @CBBKings]

2 days until March Madness

[Caroline Darney @cwdarney]

The refs should be investigated

[Matt Newsom @mrn9b]

@ByDavidTeel Because they expect the refs to give them the calls like most of the other plays this game

[Matt Newsom @mrn9b]

@JerryRatcliffe Odom needs to get a technical foul. The refs are trying to give the game to Duke

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

When Biden refused to enforce immigration law, we were told that states couldn’t enforce those laws because it was a federal function.

Now, when Trump is trying to enforce federal immigration law, these same people say it’s fine for states to obstruct and sabotage the carrying out of this same federal function.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Matt Walsh pummels Jimmy Kimmel for CRYING about the death of two leftist rioters in Minnesota — but outright ignoring Iryna Zarutska's m*rder

"Jimmy Kimmel never mentioned her name, much less cried on camera about it. These people are sociopaths."

"Iryna Zarutska was butchered to death on a train in Charlotte by a career felon with 14 prior arrests. Her death was the direct result of leadership failures and bad policy."

"They don’t care about human life. Their emotions aren’t real. They aren’t even capable of experiencing real human emotion at this point."

"It’s all a game to them. It’s all performance. Kimmel isn’t just a bad comedian, he’s a bad person. Rotten to his core."

Boom. Nailed it. 🫳🏻🎤

[Matt Newsom @mrn9b]

@BarstoolUVA Every ref at the UVA/ND basketball game should be fired

[Matt Newsom @mrn9b]

ACC men’s basketball ref’s are trash

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Voter fraud

[Joe Kernen @JoeSquawk]

@SenWarren Umm, because Democrats didn’t make the pandemic era subsidies permanent when they had the chance? Have I got that right?

[Matt Newsom @mrn9b]

@DrewGoodman89 The entire team and coaching staff should give their game checks back to the donors.

[Matt Newsom @mrn9b]

@JacquieFran_ Fire Des

[Matt Newsom @mrn9b]

Just fire Des right now