Extraordinary Legislative Session

Bill to Stop Newsom’s Stealth Gas Tax Increase Introduced During Extraordinary Legislative Session

September 12, 2024 2:45 amSeptember 12, 2024 6:33 am

A bill to freeze proposed increases in gas prices in California was introduced in the Assembly on Wednesday, with the ultimate aim to halt Governor Gavin Newsom’s planned update to the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard. According to ABX2-4, authored...

Californians Paying 140% More For Electricity than Other States

March 14, 2024 2:55 amMarch 15, 2024 11:50 am

Electricity in Taft, California costs 275% more than what electricity costs in Bullhead City, Arizona. While residents of Los Angeles and San Francisco may feel comfortably smug hundreds of miles away from the Kern County city, it is rare to...

Gov. Newsom Bulldozing Californians with Draconian Climate Change and Electrification

March 11, 2024 2:45 amMarch 12, 2024 6:29 am

In March, 2023 the California Assembly jammed SBX1-2, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Gas Tax, through an expedited hearing, pretending that was enough exposure to the public, and debated the bill and voted on it. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Gas Tax created a new...

Senate Democrats Reject Measure to Lower the Price of California Gas by $1 a Gallon

September 13, 2023 8:41 amSeptember 13, 2023 8:42 am

While Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has suspended taxes on diesel and gasoline to provide relief from high inflation, California Democrats refused to support an amendment to suspend the state’s gas taxes and fees for one year, which would lower gas...

Gov. Newsom Brags that Rest of Country Wants His Gas Tax Scheme

April 12, 2023 8:40 amApril 13, 2023 11:44 am

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Gas Tax, as it is being called in many circles, creates a new panel of unelected bureaucrats with subpoena power, to investigate oil and gas companies, impose penalties, new costs and regulations, which would inevitably lead to...

Governor Newsom’s Gas Tax Scheme Passes Assembly – But Not Without a Splendid Fight

March 27, 2023 5:20 pmMarch 29, 2023 6:33 am

UPDATE below: The California Assembly hosted a side show Monday, when after jamming SBX1-2, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Gas Tax, through an expedited hearing earlier, pretended that was enough exposure to the public, and debated the bill and voted on it....