This must be a really bad idea, raising the cost of gas by $1.50, via government edict, not the market place. When you have the L.A. Times calling it hypocrisy, you know you are wrong.
| “Now, upcoming hearings by the California Air Resources Board will determine if we’ll all pay an estimated $1.50 more at the pump to fund our state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard? It is expected CARB will vote on key amendments to the LCFS at its November 8 meeting in Riverside. Kabateck Strategies encourages everyone who would be affected by the increase in fuel prices, which is just about everyone, to make your voices heard here. |
| “The Newsom administration is in conflict with itself on gasoline pricing, speaking from both sides of its mouth. Is it trying to hold down prices at the gas pump or is it OK with hiking them? Both, it seems. And it smacks of hypocrisy,” wrote veteran capitol watcher George Skelton in the Los Angeles Times.” |
We know what Newsom wants. He is promoting high gas prices so the poor and middle class can not use their cars—to be held hostage by government transportation.
| The Twilight of Transportation in California? John Kabateck, 10/24/24 kabateckstrategies.org Will California’s race to be the first into that Xanadu of a clean-energy, non-polluting future instead end up being a casualty-filled journey into the twilight of transportation in the Golden State? T wo events, one that has passed and one coming up, are making this a more serious question each day, a question by unhappy coincidence are at the top of the mind for two Kabateck Strategies clients, the California Fuels + Convenience Alliance (CFCA), and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). The Legislature just concluded a special session October 14 aimed at punishing oil companies for occasional fluctuations in gas prices by requiring them to keep more oil in reserve in storage facilities they don’t have and are unlikely to build given this state’s hostility to their industry. Now, upcoming hearings by the California Air Resources Board will determine if we’ll all pay an estimated $1.50 more at the pump to fund our state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard? It is expected CARB will vote on key amendments to the LCFS at its November 8 meeting in Riverside. Kabateck Strategies encourages everyone who would be affected by the increase in fuel prices, which is just about everyone, to make your voices heard here. “The Newsom administration is in conflict with itself on gasoline pricing, speaking from both sides of its mouth. Is it trying to hold down prices at the gas pump or is it OK with hiking them? Both, it seems. And it smacks of hypocrisy,” wrote veteran capitol watcher George Skelton in the Los Angeles Times. For the independent convenience store operators of CFCA, many of whom are ethnic owners pursuing the American Dream, the Legislature’s passage of ABX2-1 and CARB’s upcoming decision are existential threats hitting simultaneously. For the small-business-owning members of NFIB, this is a time of great uncertainty. This month’s release of its latest poll showed ‘uncertainty’ at its highest level in the 51-year history of the survey. In an October 19-20 opinion section article, New Mexico Can’t Afford California’s Green Deal, in The Wall Street Journal, Jonathan Lesser, a senior fellow with National Center for Energy Analytics, writes, “As in California, refineries in New Mexico will likely either shut down or convert to manufacturing biofuels, further raising gasoline and diesel prices. … Adopting California’s green-energy policies may make New Mexico progressives feel virtuous. But these policies will drive the poverty rate even higher. There’s no virtue in that.” I’ll offer one addendum: California can’t afford California’s Green Deal. |
