CIOMA presented two educational
sessions during the NACS show in Las Vegas this week, including hosting a
reception for California attendees. A
recap of the sessions can be found below.
Attention California Retailers:
Hot Topics From the Golden State Operations
California retailers discussed new legislative and regulatory
practices from the state government including plastic bag bans, worker sick
leave, new fuel costs, service station risk assessment, inventory best
practices, and more, highlighting a variety of issues cooking in the test-tube
state. The interactive discussion with attendees and California retailers covered
how they continue to cope with an array of new requirements and obligations.
This session was attended by retailers who operate stores within California.
Panelists included:
Jay McKeeman, CIOMA & CSSARA, VP Government Relations
Dee Dhaliwal, Dhaliwal & Associates, Inc., President, CIOMA
Board member
Chris Bambury, Bambury, Inc., General Manager, CIOMA and POC Board
member
James Foster, SC Fuels, Manager, Branded Wholesale
Attention California Operators:
Greenhouse Gas Regulations
In California, multifaceted regulatory programs are designed to
achieve lower carbon output from motor fuels, refinery carbon obligations, fuel
carbon offsets and the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. Due to the complexity and
overlap of the regulations, this "living experiment" has many hidden
or unintended consequences. Attendees learned how aspects of the state's
fuel manufacturing and delivery markets are adjusting, and about the impacts on
fuel retailers and their customers. There was an informative Q&A
session at the close where many attendees were able to interact with the
speaker and ask questions about the regulations.
The session was moderated by Dee Dhaliwal, Dhaliwal &
Associates, Inc., President,
CIOMA Board member. The
session presenter was Jay McKeeman, CIOMA & CSSARA,
VP Government Relations.