Everything Wrong With California in One Photo

From Steven Hayward at National Review:

Nationwide gasoline prices are below $3 a gallon. But here in California it is not unusual to see prices still over $4 a gallon. So what do liberal here want to do? Pass a law that mandates reducing gasoline consumption by 50 percent by the year 2030—just 15 years from now.
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Sponsors of the bill could not say how a 50% reduction in gasoline consumption would be accomplished. Higher prices? Rationing? Mandates that we all drive Teslas and Priuses? Even an economic illiterate could figure out that at the very least it would mean higher gasoline prices for people who cannot afford Teslas.

So Gov. Jerry Brown killed this part of the bill. But in typical Obama fashion, he says he will pursue the same goal with administrative regulations through the Air Resources Board.

The Primary Sponsor of the Bill was State Senator Kevin De'Leon, who represents some of the poorest people in the State. But he was encouraged by the likes of Tom Steyer, a multi-billioniare Green Warrior, who ironically got rich via coal.