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Gavin Newsom Chases Another Oil Company Out of California

October 16, 2024 3:55 pmOctober 16, 2024 8:07 pm

Phillips 66 announced Wednesday that it plans to close operations at its Los Angeles-area refinery late in 2025. The company said in a press statement that it “will work with the state of California to supply fuel markets and meet...

California’s Gas Supply Restrictions Lead Gavin Newsom to World Stage

October 14, 2024 11:06 amOctober 14, 2024 11:06 am

How is California Governor Gavin Newsom going to jump back onto the national stage? Once his role as Joe Biden’s surrogate presidential candidate was shattered as Democrats replaced him with Kamala Harris, how could Newsom remain present in order to...

Ringside: The Disruptive Potential of Photovoltaics

October 9, 2024 4:00 pmOctober 9, 2024 4:25 pm

Earlier this year the New York Times published an opinion piece “What Will We Do With Our Free Power?,” written by David Wallace Wells. The sheer optimism of the piece was a breath of fresh air. Rather than emphasizing the existential terror...

Chevron Sends Letter to CA Legislature Lambasting Newsom’s Oil/Gas Proposal

October 9, 2024 7:54 amOctober 9, 2024 7:55 am

Chevron President Andy Walz sent a letter Tuesday condemning Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to decrease the state’s gas supply, which will clearly result in even higher gas prices at the pump, saying he seeks to address “some of the inaccurate...

California Senate Special Committee on Fuel/Price Spikes Passes Gov. Newsom’s Bill to Create Gas Shortages

October 8, 2024 7:42 amOctober 8, 2024 1:10 pm

You are probably getting tired of me rhetorically asking, “If the ‘Big Oil’ companies are so greedy, why are they only greedy in California and not greedy in every state?” The California Senate Special Committee on Fuel Supply and Price...

Ringside: Time to Gut and Amend California’s Rogue Water Agencies

October 3, 2024 3:30 amOctober 3, 2024 3:31 am

In California today, we have given unelected state bureaucrats the power to make decisions that affect millions of people and cost billions of dollars, and there is almost no recourse. There is also very little public criticism of the decisions...

VP Debate Moderators Showed their ‘Smug and Arrogant Bias’

October 2, 2024 8:03 amOctober 2, 2024 4:03 pm

Tuesdays’ Vice Presidential debate was disappointing but expected, only because my expectations were so low already. CBS “hairdos” Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan did provide one surprise – I did not expect them to be so bitchy. Someone after the...