On gas costs, Gavin Newsom wants you to look away – Latest News
Recall the long-lasting scene in “The Naked Gun” with fire, explosions and rockets behind Leslie Nielsen as his character deadpans: “Nothing to see here! Please disperse!”
That’s the identical factor Gavin Newsom does.
With a file of wreckage behind him, the governor calmly prods the crowds to look away.
In the most recent instance, Newsom referred to as on X for a boycott of Chevron this Memorial Day weekend, alleging Big Oil profiteering on gas and urging motorists to buy cheaper “unbranded” gas as a substitute.
That’s the identical factor Gavin Newsom does. Anadolu through Getty Images
In the most recent instance, Newsom referred to as on X for a boycott of Chevron this Memorial Day weekend, alleging Big Oil profiteering on gas and urging motorists to buy cheaper “unbranded” gas as a substitute. Jonathan Alcorn For CA Post
What nonsense.
Why would Big Oil price-gouge in only one state out of 50?
The reality is, Newsom’s climate insurance policies have delivered gas costs in California which are 35% to 50% greater within the Golden State than in different states within the US.
And it’s not as if Chevon is the one “branded” gas.
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Newsom picked on Chevron as a result of the company had the temerity to place indicators on its pumps telling drivers simply how culpable Sacramento is when it comes to inflated gas costs.
So yes: The governor’s being petty, vindictive, and counterproductive. In truth, it may be a new low for him, in phrases of his years-long pushing to destroy an industry that’s important to the state he’s supposed to lead.
He’s additionally comfortable to distract from his atrocious file on oil, gas costs, and vitality affordability.
Why would Big Oil price-gouge in only one state out of 50? Jonathan Alcorn For CA Post
The gov’s near-religious fixation on international climate, typically a pretext for slopping taxpayer-funded inexperienced pork to buddies of Democrats, has been a catastrophe for the state.
For years and a long time, California has taxed, regulated and berated the state’s once-robust oil industry, driving a lot of it elsewhere.
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Newsom, legislators and regulators have additionally heaped a vary of taxes, charges and regulatory necessities onto gas costs — prices that add about $1.50 a gallon in California in contrast with pump costs in different states.
Meanwhile, different California vitality polices, together with the “cap and invest” scheme to ostensibly deal with international temperatures within the distant future, have additionally ladled prices on nearly each kind of vitality residents right here rely upon.
Jonathan Alcorn For CA Post
The outcome: much less provide and sharply greater costs for gas, oil, heating, cooling, electrical energy — i.e., the fundamentals of First World residing.
The pious vitality insurance policies of Newsom & Co. additionally drive up costs for each object shoppers buy that’s transported by gas or diesel: from groceries to furnishings to clothes to computer systems.
Yes: Californians are struggling additional financial hardship as a direct outcome of Newsom’s inexperienced lunacy.
And yes: Newsom would quite you look away.
He wouldn’t need voters staring head-on on the exploding mess he made in California.
That could be very dangerous for his presidential prospects in 2028.
