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California’s New Fuel Standards Hurt the Poor, With Little Environment Benefit

February 11, 2025 10:42 amFebruary 11, 2025 10:48 am

California faces a firestorm, not just on fires, but also on energy. The state government continues to push households to electrify while, at the same time, electricity prices skyrocket. The dual impact of increasing dependence on electricity and a 35...

Benevolent CA Air Resources Board Withdraws Federal Waiver Allowing Truck Drivers to Stay in Business

January 15, 2025 7:44 amJanuary 15, 2025 9:31 am

“California has no choice but to abandon its groundbreaking rules for zero-emission trucks and cleaner locomotives,” CalMatters reports. That’s one way of acknowledging that the benevolent California Air Resources Board has withdrawn the federal waiver to enact emissions limits that...

California’s Climate Rules Leave Working Class Behind

November 15, 2024 10:45 amNovember 15, 2024 10:45 am

The next time Governor Gavin Newsom puts on his detective hat and tries to get to the bottom of the “price gouging” that is supposedly driving absurdly high gas prices in California, he should start with the most obvious culprit...

Brace for Impact: California Gas Prices to Increase in 2025

November 15, 2024 9:11 amNovember 15, 2024 3:31 pm

Policies have consequences. A significant increase in the retail price of gasoline that Californians will pay at the pump is expected for 2025. The projected increase could drive California’s retail gasoline prices to exceed the national average by as much...

Ringside: Quantifying the Impact of ‘Low Carbon’ Fuel

November 14, 2024 3:10 amNovember 14, 2024 3:11 am

On November 8, a Friday evening, after a day long marathon of public comment, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved updates to the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard. According to the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, the price impact of compliance...

Crazies in Climateland Vote to Increase CA Gas Prices by 65¢ per gallon

November 9, 2024 8:57 amNovember 9, 2024 9:06 am

The California Air Resources Board voted Friday to approve new gas regulations which will result in as much as a .65 cent per gallon increase in California’s gas prices. The California Governor, Legislature and State Air Resources Board are working...

California’s Corrupt Air Board and The Great California Shakedown

November 4, 2024 2:55 amNovember 4, 2024 6:54 pm

The California Air Resources Board, which will be voting on new gas regulations Nov. 8th likely resulting in a .65 cent per gallon increase in gas prices, proudly just announced they have issued a massive fine to Valero oil company:...