A gallon of gas costs about twice as much in California as it does pretty much anywhere else in the United States. The reason why, of course, is that California makes it cost about twice as much – by reducing supply and by adding costs, chiefly for “environmental” reasons. This includes a new requirement – going into effect very soon (Dec. 31) that all gas stations must either replace single-walled underground storage tanks or permanently close them – no matter whether the tanks are actually leaking and no matter how much it costs to replace them.
How much is it going to cost?
On the low end, about $25,000-$30,000 for one underground tank. Many stations have more than one. Then there is the additional expense of the work plus dealing with the piping and related underground stuff. A station that has to replace a couple of tanks is looking at a six figure bill for Christmas.
Obviously, this is an expense beyond the means of many independent gas station owners as the profit margin on gas is barely enough to stay in business selling gas. Of course, this is why there are very few gas stations left that just sell gas left, in California or anywhere else. Most have been taken over by corporate chains that sell everything except timeshares, with gas being the incidental thing they sell.
Even so, the cost of replacing underground tanks – and the fines of $5,000 per day for not replacing or closing them by the Dec.31 deadline – are going to make it even more expensive to buy gasoline in California than it already is. It might get twice as expensive as it is right now – which is around $4.70 per gallon as of about a week before the deadline.
Consider just how much that costs.
A typical small crossover carries about 12 or so gallons of gas. That comes to about $60 for just one tank. Now imagine you’re having to fill a larger tank. A typical truck or SUV carries about 20 gallons of gas; some 24-25. Assuming 20 gallons, the cost of a single fill-up in California currently costs the driver of a such a vehicle nearly $100.
Now imagine what it will cost when the costs of California’s latest cost-impositions are fully felt at the pump. Say gas goes up to $6 per gallon in about a month from now, which is a realistic possibility. If it does, it’ll cost the owner of a truck or SUV with a 20 gallon tank $120 to fill up just once. If he fills up once a week, it may cost him close to $6,000 per year to fuel his truck or SUV. Over six years that cost works out to $36,000 – the cost equivalent of a new truck or SUV.
It is estimated that about 473 gas stations in California are going to close – because the owners cannot afford the mandatory underground storage tank upgrade costs or the $5,000 per day fines for non-compliance. At the same time, the state’s regulatory bureaucracy has essentially shut down supply by denying 97 percent of permits for new refineries to supply the extra-special (and extra-expensive) gasoline formulations that all gas stations in California are required to sell.
If this hypothetical scenario ends up becoming the actual scenario it could result in the collapse of California as a state.
Keep in mind it is not just the cost of filling up that will go up; it is the cost of everything associated with filling up.
The cost of food could go up by another 20-30 percent because it is hard to get food from A to B without driving it from A to B. Those who drive things from A to B will have to raise what they charge to do that and those costs will be paid for by the people who buy the things transported from A to B. Many will no longer be able to afford to pay that. Or for gas, for their own vehicles. It may no longer be economically viable for many people to drive to work and so they will stop working.
When that happens, people will stop making their mortgage and rent payments and that could trigger a collapse of the already precarious real estate market in CA, leading to mass evictions and mass homelessness.
Of course, this is just California – right? If you don’t live there, why worry about what’s going on there? Two word why:
Gavin Newsom
California’s governor – who is personally responsible for creating this manufactured crisis by denying the permits and imposing the diktats that are making gasoline as expensive as champagne in California – is currently one of the likeliest candidates to replace Donald Trump come November of 2028, which no longer seems all that far from now. If the election were held right now, Newsom would probably win, because of widespread Orange Fatigue and an economy that is terrible for every American who isn’t already at least a millionaire. If things get worse – and they seem to be trending that way – a President-elect Newsom in 2028 isn’t a far-fetched possibility.
If that happens, we are likely to get costs similar to those imposed by Newsom in California imposed by a resurgently messianic EPA on the rest of the country. He clearly wants to impose such costs nationally, since we know he has imposed them on California already. It is line with his ideology, which uses “environmentalism” to impose socialist elitism. Newsom – a very wealthy man – has no difficulty paying the costs of socialism, in part because so much of his income is derived from socialism. Even if he were to have two-thirds of his income taxed away (and that never happens; the elites have the means to avoid paying these taxes, using dodges and lawyers the res of us can’t use and cannot afford) he’d still have no difficulty paying them.
But the rest of us will.
This is what’s desired; i.e., a society in which the elites own and control essentially everything and the rest of us pay for it all and can’t afford to own anything. Especially a car or truck.
The evil genius of the thing is that many of the rest-of-us will agree to this deal. These many-of-us being the ones successfully fooled into believing if we don’t, the “climate” will “change.”
It won’t. At least, not on account of us.
But something else will change – and unlike the overhyped bogeyman of a “changing climate,” it’ll be a change most of the rest of us are going to feel and aren’t going to like.
Because it’ll be real.
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I want to put it out there that blaming the “voters” is the wrong thing to do, especially when these elections are known to be selections which do not require our input at all, only our belief. The people fleeing these blue states are refugees and ought to be welcomed as refugees. I can see the writing on the wall where I live (NC) – once a place begins to boom from the economic refugees the place becomes a ripe fruit for picking/exploitation/ratcheting.
If I ever have to flee, I’ll be a little miffed by anyone telling me I voted for it, since I always knew it was a fraud and never voted.
nannynannypoopoo
I would not call those fleeing as “refugees”. Look no further than Oregon, Washington State, Montana and Colorado to see the damage these “refugees” inflict on once nice states. That are now, sadly, former shells of what they used to be. Too many “refugees” refuse to also leave behind the Communists practices they hated so much they left. Yet insist on “trying it again” in the new home state no one invited or asked them to.
Hi Joe,
This is so true. In my area, which used to be a nice, quiet rural area, the “refugees” are turning it into another Aspen. They are building McMansions and demanding “services” – and now instead of a handful of deputies driving old Crown Vics that didn’t even have radar sets, we have a fleet of brand-new Ford Explorers and AGWs sitting in them by the side of the road running radar traps. You can see two of these SOBs in my latest video (accompanying the new lead article).
Indeed, Max –
This last presidential selection was my come-to-Jesus moment in re voting. I’m cured. I never will soil myself that way again.
“Many will no longer be able to afford to pay that”
The government will step in with subsidies. Many people are already being subsidized with food, rent, maintenance, schools, etc etc etc.
Soon the middle class types will be eligible for subsidies. All the Fed Government has to do is issue more credit. The downside is that eventually this will result in higher prices, Look at what happened during COVID* when up to six trillion in credit was issued, prices skyrocketed.
Remember when many many people were given “Free” money. The free money credit crisis will soon be accelerating out of control.
California has a demographic problem as well. Hell it ain’t no America any more. Itz become a colony of third world foreigners.
*Some one asked me if i was afraid of Covid during that time. I said “Covid! Covid! I ain’t afraid of no stinkin Covid! I’ll bitch slap that two bit whore left and right and I ain’t jokin cause I’ll be comin out smokin!
One can always count on the state of California to enact and enforce lunatic (Communist) policies, and said politicians behind such mandates can still get re-elected.
[…] If he gets elected president, Gavin Newsome will do for U.S. gas prices what he did for California’s. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com: […]
Newsom declared “war” on oil refineries in the state, and a number have shut down, since they can’t make money. We also have county-specific fuel formulations, which are often produced by only a single refinery, so there’s no supply side competition. These factors raise the price much more than tank replacement. He’s come to realize this, and due to his presidential ambitions, he’s now trying to undo the damage:
https://www.eenews.net/articles/newsom-asks-regulator-to-keep-oil-refineries-in-business/
I have a cabin in rural, red California where I now spend most of my time. None of the local gas stations within an hour’s drive can comply. It’s poor out here, and I suspect they’ll shut down. These are little 2 or 4 pump stations, but they’re the only game in town.
the indirect move to push us all into expensive electric golf carts powered by a grid full of overpriced, inconsistent “green” energy sources
The whole idea is to put us all in 15 minute cities where we can be watched and controlled.
What’s sick is that the whole demented “15 minute cities” agenda is framed as “Saaaaaaaaaaving the planet from cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change”, and people eat it up as TRUTH. Oregon is pushing its own demented “15 minute cities” agenda via an executive order from fmr Governor Kate Brown called CLIMATE FRIENDLY EQUITABLE COMMUNITIES to fool people who STILL belieeeeeeeeeeve the cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change narratives uttered by billionaires and corporate media.
So, vote newsom out and find republican candidates who can do better
Hi Bert,
Good luck with that! The way CA elections are structured, it’s difficult if not impossible to imagine a Republican becoming governor there ever again.
Same with Oregon, Eric, as long as vote by mail remains. Ever since vote by mail was implemented a few decades ago, Oregon has had NOTHING but one Democrat governor after another, and over the past 10 years or so, each successive Democrat governor was worse than their predecessor. And there are people who think vote by mail is “Safe and Secure!” Probably the same people who STILL belieeeeeeeeeeve the COVID vaxxes are “Safe and Effective!” and that climate change is caused by people eating meat & driving gas vehicles.
And the current Governor, Tina Kotek, is running for a 2nd term next year despite the fact that her precious ODOT fee & tax increases are VERY UNPOPULAR with Oregonians and will be on the ballot next year, along with another gubernatorial election. Will people be voting for Kotek again because “Orange Man Bad & so we hate him!” or voting for someone else for Oregon Governor because they don’t want Kotek’s precious fee & tax increases to go into effect? We shall see.
“…it’s difficult if not impossible to imagine a Republican becoming governor there ever again.”
And if that ‘Republican’ is another ‘screw your freedoms’ Aaahnold, one may as well just vote for the real “D” thing.
Or, better still, not vote at all.
May be time for states to consider going against federal edicts. Gas around here is 3 bucks a gallon. Nothing wrong with the tanks that were acceptable, before they weren’t. Don’t really see anything that happens to California as a bad thing, it is what they’ve craved for the last thirty years.. Unless, Captain boomer save-a-ho gets involved and rescues them from the consequence of their actions. Which, if we’re being honest is about as predictable as a coin toss. I’ll be happy with 8-10$ a gallon for gas in California. When they can no longer afford to fill their tanks, it will stop the locusts from immigrating to Az. Sorry to any like minds in Cali. The time to fight or flee is long past. Arizona is closed. BTW, it sucks here anyway, snakes and scorpions, oppressive heat and frigid cold, and most importantly, no water.
Newsom’s family money came from his father managing the Getty Family Trust.
Getty as in Getty Oil.
Just remember NewSCUM is the leading Demoncrap for Prez.
In related news SanFran went dark, blacked out, self driving cars stopped working.
FauxNews – San Francisco power outage puts 130,000 in the dark, as self-driving car service stops vehicles in the street
A friendly reminder to those people who do not live in fantasy land – Calipornia hosts the USA’s largest population of Israeli’s. ZOG allows these state of Israel agents free reign to do whatever they want. Whenever any fire breaks out, or building blows up, or food supply contanminated – think Israel, because Israel is free to terrorize the United States, and the current PM, the terrorist Nutjobyahoo brags about killing Amerikans.
The Orange crazy man allows this because he is being blackmailed yet orange crazy man does not resign – which puts us all at risk. Trump must be removed from power ASAP, he is danger to us all – as the current epstain files redactions prove.
WA state same thing. King County average $4.35 today.
“ many of the rest-of-us will agree to this deal “
Yes and the proof here was Fall 2024, there was a ballot initiative to kill the carbon tax system. It went down in flames, the idiot voters bought the propaganda – so here we are with gasoline at least a buck a gallon more than “normal” USA.
Part of the 2024 TV ad propaganda was “carbon credit money pays for wildfire fighting!”.
Summer of 2025: “we’re going short on money for wildfire fighting due to State budget issues!” Not a peep from our lapdog local media.
Hi Sparkey,
Are people in Washington state blaming Trump for high gas prices in the state instead of state government that is pushing this demented climate change agenda? There’s someone in my family who seems to think ALL the problems of the past few years are SOLELY because of Trump and not anything that previous presidents and Congress critters have done while in office.
I think it’s a mix, considering comments in the local KOMO news website.
The “climate cult” bus riders on one side, the “workin’ stiffs” F250 drivers on the other. Note I’m with the workin stiffs as I’m in favor of the lights staying on and my nat gas furnace running this winter! This is another fact city dwellers don’t grasp, Capt’n F250 on the line crew is keeping your electricity flowing.
The cultists can’t make the connection between food prices at Whole Paycheck and the cost of fuels to get their tofu delivered. “I ride the bus, if you did too then gas price wouldn’t matter!” typical Seattle attitude.
What’s that city bus running on? Either diesel or natural gas. So when the price goes up, so does the rider fees (or the taxes, or the inflation rate from the IOU ATM). There still ain’t no free rides.
Note here in WA we had RDS in the ‘80s, there was an older female D only voter in our work group blamed Reagan for everything. Even some of the other leftys had enough. “Keerist Mary, he doesn’t write the laws, he signs them! Call your congress critter if you don’t like it!”.
Newscum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Newsom
a lifelong politician,
is “rich” mainly because he married into wealth.
With due respect to the USC professor and the PBS interviewer, West LA (expensive) is not the best place to spot check gasoline prices in SoCal. I paid $4.35 for 87 octane Chevron at a company owned station in ZIP code 92881 (Corona, in Riverside County) last week. Prices have actually declined by ~$0.30 per gallon in the past month, despite the major fire @ Chevron El Segundo a month ago. The Isomax unit, which blew up, mainly produces jet fuel, with a direct pipeline to LAX, but the FCC was also taken offline.
There are currently two Chevron stations here in Corona, the large company owned station on Foothill Parkway (south end of town) and a much smaller independent station located on Main St. @ SR91 (Riverside Freeway). I see no activity to replace tanks at either station.
The former owner of the independent Chevron station indicated to me long ago that Chevron sold fuel at its company stations for less than it charged him for the same fuel. The only way he could stay in business was to charge a premium price for the convenience of fueling next to the freeway access point. So, natch, more “passing through” traffic than @ the company station, which is ~ 2 miles from the freeway.
The independent stations are subject to very rigorous tank inspections by Chevron, and the independent station operator indicated to me he always sweated the Chevron tank inspection. So, I expect if there is any major fallout from the latest tank regs, it will be to drive a few independent operators out of business.
Chevron El Segundo is *not* shutting down. Hell, they named the town after the refinery, which is enormous. The Wilmington refinery has gone through a few changes of ownership. In the 1990s it was owned by UNOCAL, before UNOCAL merged with Chevron, and was their “flagship” refinery in SoCal. Phillips does not really have a retail gasoline presence around here, so they have to be selling product to other retailers. Which ones, I do not know.
Note that one of the reasons for high gasoline prices in California is high gasoline taxes. The video states $1.44 per gallon in taxes. I guess that is state plus federal (don’t know).
People here in Riverside County *are* *not* going to quit working if gasoline prices rise, nor will they be likely to buy expensive EVs. Can’t afford to do either, so they will find a way to cope. SR91 (Riverside Freeway) will still be the most congested freeway in California, mainly because of peons (like me, now retired) who live in RivCo and commute to jobs in OC.
Special gasoline? Yep, we all have to breathe, folks. thanks to environmental regs (tailpipe, emissions, stationary source emissions, plus fuel) air is *much* cleaner here than it was 40 years ago, when I moved here, despite increase in population of >2,000,000.
Clue: air is not supposed to be brown, and, thankfully, it no longer is.
I rode my 450 Honda thru LA August 1973, swear you could chew on that brown air. It was an eye watering experience!
EVs won’t save them. I saw a video where it cost a guy $100 to “fully charge” his electric Chevy truck. Same as what it costs me to fully fill my old gas-engined truck, but for that $100 I get 500 miles of range instead of the touted 240 (but less in reality) range that same $100 gives the EV truck. (Similar sized trucks being compared here, with similar towing capacities).
It’s not just Commiefornia that faces a difficult future. Yesterday John Mauldin wrote about an emerging conflict in natural gas demand. After the Nordstream 2 pipeline bombing, Europe became dependent on US LNG imports. More US export terminals are under construction, at an enormous cost.
But now, energy-hungry AI data centers are co-locating right next to gas fields, to suck up the natgas before it ever reaches a utility or a pipeline.
Both of these large customers — AI and Europe — cannot be served. Somebody’s gonna have to freeze in the dark … or else make peace with the Russkies, who have plenty of energy but are under vicious attack for trying to export it.
You can see how this is going already: the AI tech lords already hijacked the feeble-minded Orange Man, even as he distances himself from NATO. Euro-clowns get the short end of the stick. What, y’all thought America was your ‘friend’? 🙁
WTF is wrong with the average citizens of California? It’s beyond time to storm Sacramento, burn down the State House and dump all the bureaucrats in the Pacific Ocean.
In California, as in Oregon and Washington state, it’s the big city, coastal counties where the commies live. East of the first coastal mountain range, these states actually look like America.
Mark Stein’s book How the States Got Their Shapes describes how Clowngress divided up the country beyond the 13 original colonies. In the West, they were aiming for about 4 degrees of latitude between southern and northern borders, and similar areas (e.g. Arizona 113,998 sq mi vs New Mexico, 121,697 sq mi).
It’s like how European colonizers drew arbitrary borders in the Levant and Africa, taking little account of who lived there and what their preferences were. Here in the US, the CSA would have divided AZ-NM in an east-west direction, creating a rail passage to the Pacific. But Ape Lincoln intervened with a north-south border to stop them.
The first 20 or 30 miles of the Left Coast needs to be hived off into a Chile-shaped communist regime, with corridors for U.S. seaport access and a visa regime to control and limit their infiltration into America. Then the rest of us can get on with semi-normal lives.
I’m a Central WA (east of the Cascade Range) dweller. You are absolutely correct. Without a “by county” republic system these states will never change. In state electoral college for state elected offices and state senates with two senators per county would help end the madness but I have no illusions of this happening. WA is a totally leftist controlled state due to three large leftist Puget Sound area counties. Total dem control for decades.
Despite lots of radical talk from the Trump regime, no one has proposed overturning the egregiously unconstitutional Reynolds v Sims decision (1964) which shut down Alabama’s county-based system for allocating Senate seats — and those of many other states too. 🙁
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/377/533/
A federal republic is defunct when its constituent states have no sovereignty to allocate their own legislative districts. Partisan redistricting underway in Texas, California, et al, doesn’t challenge Reynolds v Sims.
Yes! Glad you brought this up, I’ve mentioned Reynolds v Sims several times here and in local media comments. Not many get it, and the leftists certainly don’t want their locked in golden power ox gored.
One could add that the US Senate is NOT based on equal representation by population. Small states get two Senators, same as big ones do.
But the hacks in black spit in the face of the Founders’ design when it came to the states, which they feel entitled to kick like cur dogs at their imperial whim.
Exactly. House of reps, voice of the people. Senate, voice of the states to keep the Feds reined in. Well, that went well, eh? 17th amendment what a mistake. Add in the Fed income tax and Fed Reserve for the banksters it was baked in over a century ago.
Sparkey,
The 17th Amendment was for DEMOOOOOOOCRACY (sarcasm). However, what we have instead is an Oligarchy that has thrived under various presidential administrations, both D & R. People who say it’s unique to Donald Trump just expose their own ignorance.
Governments that want to prevent their own citizens from using gasoline under guise of “Stopping cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change” but wish to use it for their own purposes, e.g. engaging in endless wars have got to be the biggest phonies ever. They could well be even bigger phonies than billionaires who lecture the masses on cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change while flying in private jets. At the recent COP30 meeting where many of them met, including Gavin Newsom, a section of the Amazon rainforest was cut down to build a highway for elitist snobs such as themselves to DRIVE there.
If these people were REALLY concerned about cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change, they’d give up THEIR private jets, stop engaging in endless wars. But instead, they brag about how Stopping cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change would cost TRILLIONS of dollars, which means endless fleecing of American taxpayers.
As (((they))) say…
“you’ll own nothing…and be happy!”
Because you’re still alive, not recycled yet.
Remember, we’re the carbon that (((they))) to eliminate!!!
Right, the next step in this process is turning us peons into Soylent Green.
Yes, and yet, there are people who STILL belieeeeeeeeeeve that carbon needs to be reduced to “Saaaaaaaaaaave the planet”, though I don’t see them sacrificing themselves or their lifestyles…… that’s for people they deem CLIMATE DENIERS.
And we were also bombarded with narratives from corporate media such as “Don’t have children because of cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change.” & “Having children causes climate change.”
Problem: People aren’t buying EVs at a rate that will stop “climate change*”
Solution: Make owning a gasoline powered vehicle so expensive and difficult as to achieve parity with EVs.
Good job, comrade Newsome!
*even though no one knows what amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere is the “correct” amount of CO₂.
People will put up with whatever you do to them until it becomes too much. Calinfornies haven’t reached their limit yet.
The ones that did moved out during covid
Sociopaths don’t really think or care about the harm caused by their actions. They get off on being above and apart from their victims. They are impervious to reason and logic. In fact, it probably gives them a greater thrill to know people are at their feet begging for the abuse to stop.
With Newsome, et al, we see the ultimate, inevitable end that GovCo always tracks. What rises to the top in the cesspool of GovCo is not cream. It never is. And, until we find other ways to arrange our affairs as a civilized people, we’re stuck with the GovCo self-destruction paradigm.
The experiment of “limited” government that began in 1776 has been an abject failure by any standard. What was to be “limited” shows no signs of any constraints whatsoever.
This is the inevitable outcome of one party rule. Tyranny is usually associated with communism, but that’s just because the stated goal of communism is state control of everything, so it’s easier to be a tyrannical overlord when you have everyone bowing to you. But that same metric is at play in any one party system, as demonstrated by California and the dysfunctional US cities. Without the checks on power and balances of debate this is what you end up with.
Even the mostly gelded Republican Party still serves as a “10th man” arguing against the regime, especially at election time. Too bad they can’t seem to get their shit together when they actually win, because actually changing anything fundamental is haaaaard.
I don’t see it as an R vs. D sort of conflict. I think it’s more the “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” structure that is inherently GovCo. Would the Libertarians be any different? Who knows? Certainly the Greens would be every bit as totalitarian. So, the party labels become irrelevant in this context. It’s the lust for power and control that draws the worst of humanity to this institution.
That’s my point. No matter who you vote for if they don’t have any meaningful opposition you’ll end up with tyranny, large or small.
Then, similar to “food deserts” created by the commiefornia government, there’ll be “gas deserts”. And the charlatans will scream “rayyyyyyyycissssssssm”.
Considering gas stations make their money in the store, that’s probably already the case in shoplifter-heavy neighborhoods.
“… When that happens, people will stop making their mortgage and rent payments and that could trigger a collapse of the already precarious real estate market in CA…”
Arguably, oil hitting $150 a barrel and gas hitting $4 a gallon is what triggered the 2008 Great Recession. It became economically unviable for people to live in huge houses in the middle of nowhere and drive dozens of miles to work and shop.
California also leads the list of top contenders for U.S. state with the most power outages in 2025. That includes this month’s San Francisco blackout, which left one-third of the city’s homes and businesses without power, with many of them still in the dark. Power outages are a recurring symptom of Communism, so what’s happening in California will almost certainly happen for the rest of the nation if Newsome gets into the White House.
Maybe they’re playing a long game that drives enough people out of the state to run the population down to the level of New Mexico or Wyoming. That way they won’t have to wait in traffic to head to their beloved beaches or ski resorts. Like it was back in the old days before the oil and aerospace industry built modern LA.
After all, what’s the point of living in a climate paradise if you can’t go out and enjoy it?
When I lived in Aspen I bought the “locals” season pass. It wasn’t very good, you could only ski one day a week and there were blackouts over the holidays. And it still cost me over a grand. But for that I was treated to a mostly empty mountain where I never had to wait in a lift line, had fresh powder or corduroy all day and had so many runs in my legs were rubber by 1:00 in the afternoon. Compared to Winter Park where I used to get a locals’ pass for $250 that was good every day of the season, it was fantastic. But I’d still take WP over Aspen any day, even with the crowds, because I could get a few turns in over lunch or have an afternoon powder day during the week because it only got busy on weekends when the ski train was running.
The big problem is that so called conservatives conserve none of the Republic as founded and the progressives only believe in progressing you into communism.
Until voting goes back to how it was originally or people learn to understand that nothing from GovCo is free but has been taken from the working class/ businesses and given to those who don’t pay taxes or causes and countries the elite support it won’t get any better.
Riddle me this: If Houthis blowing up tankers is bad, if Iran seizing tankers is bad, why is it good when we do it?
To paraphrase the old Hootie and the Blowfish song, let ’em CRY! The people of CA voted for this crap; let ’em choke on it. Californians need to shut up, suck it up, and ENJOY it! This is what they voted for; this is what they wanted.
Just wait till the U.S.A. is just like Commyfornia. It only takes a majority. Loading the Supreme Court would help.
If the Dem Party gets both houses of Congress and they win the White House, then they’ll be able to add seats to SCOTUS and fill them with justices like Ketanji Brown Jackson. That’s a SCARY thought!
But yeah, CA always starts the trends that eventually spread nationwide. Whether it’s surfing, no fault divorce, or environmental Nazism, CA is unfortunately the trend setter. God help us if Gavin Newsom is the next POTUS-YIKES!