Though the committee’s conclusions weren’t concrete, the report “strongly urge the state to establish an organizational structure and to commit resources” to studying the issues further. In 2015, the state’s Petroleum Market Advisory Committee - on which Hackett, Borenstein and Jaffe sat - was focused on three gasoline price spikes and how officials could “lessen California’s exposure to these types of events,” the final report said. The last few weeks of high gas prices could be “an early warning system” of California’s fate if policymakers or businesses don’t take action, he said. “The state has set aspirational goals for the energy transition, but it’s not very well planned,” said David Hackett, the chairman of energy group Stillwater Associates.
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