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Let’s not forget, the same Democrats in the People’s Republik Of California supported and voted for this stuff, they just didn’t practice what they forced on all the Comrades in the PRC

Gavin Newsom Faces a Climate Revolt—From Democrats – Former backers of his policies now running away from their consequences

California Gov. Gavin Newsom must be grateful for the ugly divorce between President Trump and Elon Musk. It’s a useful public distraction from a crack-up in his own party over the state’s burdensome climate policies, which are driving energy costs up and jobs out of the state.

Democratic lawmakers in Sacramento experienced a political awakening of sorts after two major refineries recently announced they will shut down. A study last month by a University of Southern California business school professor projected that gasoline prices could rise to more than $8 a gallon because of the constricted supply.

Now the lawmakers who backed the Newsom climate diktats that brought about the refinery shutdowns are up in arms. “We have a crisis on our hands that may have been self-created by the actions perhaps taken by the state, by regulators,” Assemblyman David Alvarez huffed at a legislative hearing last month with the governor’s energy regulators.

Mr. Newsom claimed the Legislature needed to give his regulators more power to punish refineries for price-gouging. “I don’t hear today any evidence” of such gouging, Mr. Alvarez said. Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris asked: “If California companies were raking it in, why did we have two refineries announce their intent to close?”

Could it be that these Democrats are getting more than the normal earful from their constituents, especially the monied ones, who are not happy with the results of the policies they used to support?

Assemblyman Mike Gipson mused that increasing fuel imports once the refineries are closed could increase pollution. California Air Resources Board Chairman Liane Randolph concurred. But when asked whether the board considered costs of its regulations, Ms. Randolph demurred: “We don’t analyze a retail cost” of gasoline or “specific costs to specific consumers.”

After the hearing, Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains demanded Ms. Randolph’s resignation: “CARB has been given so much power, they were prepared to ban gas and diesel cars and trucks single-handedly. It is outrageous that the director would pursue such policies without even trying to analyze the impact on prices.”

Now she notices. In fairness, she was first elected in 2022, so, she wasn’t in office when CARB, a group of unelected bureaucrats who do not drive EVs, mandated Comrades in the PRC drive EVs. Hilariously, after Trump signed the resolution as passed by the duly elected House and Senate, with many Democrats voting for it

California sues Trump administration for blocking state’s 2035 ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars

California is taking the Trump administration to court again, this time over the administration’s blocking of the state’s 2035 ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars.

The state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, announced his office and 10 other states filed this latest lawsuit minutes after President Donald Trump signed a resolution that blocked the ban. The lawsuit will be considered by the U.S District Court.

State leaders have said the federal government is violating the law, as California has had the authority for decades to set its own clean air rules.

“It’s been a disaster for this country,” Trump said as he signed the resolution. “We officially rescue the U.S. auto industry from destruction by terminating the California electric vehicle mandate once and for all.”

The PRC was given the ability to pass the mandate due to a Biden regime waiver. Should the PRC have the ability to mandate EVs? IMO, yes, as long as it does not involve interstate commerce, which is the bailiwick of Los Federales. But, it does, and, Los Federales have primacy on this issue.

Neither California voters nor California’s state lawmakers voted specifically for the clean air rule that would ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The governor signed an executive order in 2020 that empowered the state’s unelected California Air Resources Board to set the rules.

So, no one actually voted for this. I wonder what would happen if the Comrades in the PRC were allowed to vote on an initiative, what would they want? How often does a state sue the federal government over what has been passed and signed into law by the POTUS? Further, is Rob driving an EV? How about those in the other states?