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California’s Oil and Gas Crisis: Expert Warns of Full Scope of the Potential Danger

March 28, 2026 5:30 amMarch 30, 2026 9:07 am

“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” ~ Sun Tzu Nearly two weeks ago President Donald Trump announced he was invoking the Defense Production Act, and ordered the override of California...

California Blow-Up: How Sacramento Built an Energy Crisis and Called It a Climate Policy

March 25, 2026 9:00 amMarch 25, 2026 9:01 am

Soon after the launch of U.S.-Israeli military operations against Iran, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard closed the Strait of Hormuz, shutting down the flow of nearly a third of all seaborne crude on Earth. The U.S. military, aided by its allies,...

Can You Run a Campaign from a PO Box?

March 21, 2026 5:28 amMarch 21, 2026 5:29 am

When Eric Swalwell filed his November 2025 statement of intention for the California governorship, he listed a Sacramento attorney’s office address — not a home, not a lease, not a street where neighbors might wave at him in the driveway....

Sacramento’s Idea of a Transition

March 19, 2026 1:12 pmMarch 19, 2026 1:16 pm

In 1991, California had more than forty refineries. By the end of 2026, it will have fewer than eleven. Of those, only five are large enough to matter. Phillips 66 shuttered its 147,000-barrel-per-day Los Angeles refinery in December. Valero’s Benicia...

CA Senate Enviro Committee Democrats Kill Gas Tax Relief Bill

March 18, 2026 3:31 pmMarch 18, 2026 3:40 pm

Wednesday in the California Senate Environmental Quality Committee, Democrats killed Senate Bill 1035 by Senator Tony Strickland (R-Huntington Beach), which would have provided immediate relief for California drivers at the gas pump by lowering the price of a gallon of...

President Trump Invokes Emergency Law to Restart California Offshore Oil

March 14, 2026 12:25 pmMarch 16, 2026 4:25 pm

President Donald J. Trump has the authority to restart an oil pipeline project off the Santa Barbara coast by invoking the Defense Production Act, the Department of Justice said last week in a legal opinion, to override California laws blocking...

Nine Ways California’s Climate Agenda Is Driving Up the Cost of Living

March 12, 2026 5:00 amMarch 12, 2026 5:01 am

Last November, Governor Gavin Newsom, playing faux President, traveled to the United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil, where he declared that California’s climate policies prove environmental leadership and economic prosperity can go hand in hand. His message was simple:...