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News Stories & Opinion Pieces

May 22, 2011 / FlashReport
Culture Clash: The “Bakersfield Oil Field to Berkeley Sports Field Tax”

May 21, 2011 / The Press-Enterprise
Raising oil companies’ taxes will kill state jobs

April 15, 2011 / Orange County Register
Editorial: Would you pay more for gas to help colleges?

April 12, 2011 / Orange County Register
BLOG: Yet another tax proposal on California: the oil and gas severance tax

April 6, 2010 / Fox & Hounds Daily
California’s Families Can’t Afford Nava’s Oil Tax Scheme

January 11, 2010 / Fox & Hounds Daily
Push For Oil Severance Tax Ignores Consequences

News Releases, Press Statements

May 16, 2011
WORKERS CONVERGE ON CAPITOL TO SAVE JOBS – STOP AB 1326

April 6, 2010
COMMUNITY LEADERS: AB 656 AIMS AT WRONG TARGET
Proposed Tax on Oil Production Puts Local Job Training, Good-Paying Careers at Risk

March 22, 2010
THE DIRTY LITTLE SECRET ABOUT TORRICO’S AB 656

March 18, 2010
LOCAL LEADERS WARN OF JOB LOSSES FROM AB 1604 (NAVA)

March 5, 2010
Statement by Kern County Taxpayers Association as proponents of a new oil severance tax joined others for the start of their “March for California’s Future.”

January 21, 2010
THOUSANDS OF JOBS, GOVERNMENT REVENUE THREATENED BY AB 656

January 11, 2010
RED WAVE OF AB 656 OPPONENTS HITS CAPITOL TO FIGHT FOR JOBS

January 7, 2010
AB 656 WOULD COST KERN CO. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, THOUSANDS OF JOBS