California could be a much nicer place to live if some of the progressives who run the place would stop trying their best to make everything more expensive. California has had blackouts and despite this came close to shutting down its last nuclear reactor. In 2022, Gov. Newsom finally had second thoughts on that after the Biden administration offered a boatload of money to reverse course and keep the last reactor running.
But despite moments of lucidity, the state and the governor seem determined to set the state’s next energy crisis in motion. Last year the state passed a bill called SBX1-2 which was brandished by Gov. Newsom as the country’s first “gas price gouging law.”
Working with Senator Nancy Skinner and the Legislature to pass SBx1-2, this new law creates the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight, a dedicated state independent watchdog to root out price gouging by oil…
