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Chevron Exit Demonstrates How California Lawmakers Are Regulating Residents Out Of Business

August 5, 2024 3:10 pmAugust 5, 2024 3:10 pm

The announcement of another major corporation leaving California is just the latest illustration of Sacramento lawmakers regulating residents out of business. On Friday, the iconic California oil giant formerly known as Standard Oil will mark the 145th anniversary of its...

Add Chevron to the Growing list of Businesses Fleeing California

August 3, 2024 8:21 amAugust 4, 2024 11:10 am

California’s own Chevron Oil company is moving its headquarters to Houston, Texas from San Ramon, California, the latest big business to flee the Golden State. Chevron is in good company joining X/Twitter, Space X, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Charles Schwab, and...

No Luck For California Trucks: CARB Regulates Sales to Zero

July 29, 2024 9:15 amJuly 29, 2024 9:16 am

So, you want to buy a truck. A big truck, a tractor trailer, a semi, a rig. You can, just not in California, thanks to the California Air Resources Board (CARB.) In January, yet another blurch of absurd CARB regulations...

Ringside: California’s Energy Economy – Challenges and Opportunities

July 12, 2024 2:45 amJuly 12, 2024 2:46 am

Two weeks ago, the first part of this series (Ringside, June 27) provided links to a few of the most useful and authoritative references available on energy use globally and in California: the Statistical Review of World Energy, Lawrence Livermore...

Ringside: An Overview of California’s Energy Economy

June 27, 2024 2:45 amJune 27, 2024 2:46 am

Energy in California is unaffordable and unreliable, and it’s going to get worse if the priorities of the state legislature don’t dramatically shift. The state’s default policy is to create energy scarcity in order to protect the environment, and in...

California Has Sacrificed its Energy Stability on the Altar of Green Energy ideology

May 24, 2024 2:55 amMay 24, 2024 2:56 am

State leaders’ energy mandates mean higher electricity prices for Californians. If you heard angry shouts of protest last month, it was likely your neighbors opening their electricity bills. These echoes of protest reverberated even more loudly in March when PG&E...

Actual Headline: ‘What Happens When Climate Change and the Mental-Health Crisis Collide?’

April 15, 2024 2:53 amApril 15, 2024 6:30 pm

“What happens when climate change and the mental-health crisis collide?” That actual headline in Nature.com triggered my BS meter. What does climate change have to do with mental health? “The warming planet is worsening mental illness and distress. Researchers need...