Gasoline Prices Plunge – Except in California
Gasoline Prices Plunge – Except in California Via Committee To Unleash Prosperity: Gasoline prices have eased in 31 states as oil has fallen to below $65 a barrel since Trump came into office. But California isn’t one of them. Gov. Gavin Newsom says California’s sky-high gas prices are due to greed by “Big Oil” companies. […]
Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline – Calif has both ‘highest number of billionaires & the highest cost-adjusted poverty rate’
Newsom’s dogged emphasis on climate change – and achieving “carbon neutrality” by 2045 – has meant massive subsidies for wind and solar, mandates to reduce personal car use by nearly three times the temporary cuts caused by pandemic lockdowns, electrification of home appliances at a cost of many thousands of dollars per household, and even cuts to dairy and livestock emissions with technology mandates, accelerating the relocation of these food producers to other states and increasing food prices.
To justify the pain, state regulators estimated that paying for these changes today would prevent future climate damage, all of which depend on highly uncertain projections spanning, in some cases, hundreds of years in the future.
This won’t end well: California State Government Now Wants to Take Over the Oil Refineries
California Now Wants to Take Over the Oil Refineries California is one of the most oil and gas-rich places in the world. But the hostility of its state government is literally driving local producers to leave. Chevron is leaving the state where it was founded 145 years ago and moving to Texas. Phillips 66 is […]
New Study finds ‘fire deficit’ in North America Forests: ‘Contemporary fire occurrence is still far below historical (1600–1880) levels’ – Fires ‘not unprecedented in comparison’ with the past – Published in journal Nature Communications
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-north-american-fire-deficit The North American Fire Deficit: A fascinating new study with incredible findings By Roger Pielke Jr. Excerpt: An important new paper published this week in Nature Communications looks at the historical record of fire in North America — A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned. Parks et al. […]
Pielke Jr.: ‘California’s Insurance Crisis Guess what? It is not climate change’ – ‘The underlying problem here — policy, not climate’
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/californias-insurance-crisis By Roger Pielke Jr. Excerpt: Dave Jones, California’s insurance commissioner from 2011 to 2018, explained California’s growing insurance crisis in 2023: Due to the failure to substantially reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in the U.S. and globally, we are marching steadily to an uninsurable future. Jones sentiment is widely shared — Climate change is causing more […]
California Caves on Bid to Impose EV Truck Mandate Nationwide
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/california-caves-bid-impose-ev-truck-mandate-nationwide By Craig Bannister California has withdrawn its request that the EPA grant it authority to impose its electric vehicle (EV) mandate on all trucks from other states that operate in the California even one day a year, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced Thursday, crediting the efforts of his 24-state coalition of attorneys general […]
How California eco-bureaucrats halted a Pacific Palisades fire safety project to save an endangered shrub
https://nypost.com/2025/01/14/us-news/california-bureaucrats-halted-pacific-palisades-fire-safety-project-to-save-endangered-shrub/ By Alex Oliveira California’s eco-bureaucrats halted a wildfire prevention project near the Pacific Palisades to protect an endangered shrub. It’s just the latest clash between fire safety and conservation in California that is coming under scrutiny following the devastating outbreak of the Palisades Fire — the most devastating blaze in Los Angeles history, which has consumed […]
Gov. Newsom cut fire-fighting budget while pouring billions of dollars into his ‘Don Quixote’ green ventures: critics
https://nypost.com/2025/01/13/us-news/gavin-newsom-cut-fire-budget-while-pouring-billions-into-climate-change-critics/ By Jared Downing and Kate Sheehy Lefty California Gov. Gavin Newsom is shortchanging the state’s vital fire-prevention programs while shelling out tens of billions of dollars on “Don Quixote’’ Green New Deal handouts, critics — including some environmentalists — say. The embattled governor’s new budget slashed the state’s firefighting efforts by $101 million, to just $2.6 […]
Climate Crisis Policies Destructive to Los Angles Area Environment and Harmful to Wildlife
Climate Crisis Policies Destructive to Los Angles Area Environment and Harmful to Wildlife From Legal Insurrection A look at the carbon emissions and destruction of habitat because of the focus on policies based on virtue-signalling and pseudoscience. Posted by Leslie Eastman The continuous stream of news from the Great Los Angeles fire is heart-breaking, and the […]
Watch: Morano on Fox News on ‘root cause’ of California’s wildfire failures: ‘California has gone all in on the Garden of Eden Syndrome, with policies designed to restore the state to pre-human settlement’ – Gov. Newsom ‘bragged about blowing up the dams’
Rush Transcript: Marc Morano: “We don’t need an investigation of California’s failure to respond to the wildfires. We know the exact causes of everything that went wrong. It’s a lack of priorities for one thing — human flourishing, human economics, and human well-being. This is a government at all three levels in California- perhaps […]