SACRAMENTO, Calif.,
June 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Last week's Riverside
visit concluded CIOMA's regional meetings which have been hugely
successful in educating attendees in a variety of legislative and
regulatory issues, membership development, and promoting the yearly
Pacific Oil Conference.
Within the last two months, CIOMA staff have ventured from
Northern to Southern California to
meet with attendees from over 50 companies that operate within the
state. These regional meetings were held in Pleasanton, Fresno, and Riverside, California.
CIOMA Executive Director, Ryan
Hanretty, shared and discussed insights and issues relevant
to the convenience and fuel industry retailers and suppliers. Some
of the highlights of Hanretty's presentation were AB 1645
(Muratsuchi), which would ban the use of hydrogen fluoride and
hydrofluoric acid by refineries. Proposing such a ban would leave
refineries without the integral components to produce California grade gasoline. Another issue, SB
300 (Monning), would mandate health-warning labels to be placed on
many sugar-sweetened beverages, and exposing beverage manufacturers
and food retailers to lawsuits and fines. Lastly, the Bay Area
tobacco bans were a hot topic of discussion as Contra Costa, San
Francisco, Oakland and
San Leandro c-stores are currently
in jeopardy of losing their right to sell tobacco products to
customers.
Attendees were encouraged to assist CIOMA in these battles, and
to reach out to their local legislators to make their opposition
heard. These issues directly affect the oil-industry and will
severely hurt businesses if action is not taken to fight them.
CIOMA would like to thank everyone who attended the regional
meetings and for their willingness to continue being a part of this
important organization.
CIOMA is the industry's statewide trade
association representing the needs of independent wholesale and
retail marketers of gasoline, diesel, lubricating oils and other
petroleum products; transporters of those products; and retail
convenience store operators.
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SOURCE California Independent Oil Marketers Association
(CIOMA)