Every Wednesday morning at 9am on Instagram, I go live and discuss California Politics over coffee.
On this episode I discuss Newsom's new call to tax the "windfall profits" of oil companies as gas soars to over $6 a gallon here in California. I dive into reasons why gas is so expensive in California and it's not all due to "windfall profits" if at all.
*The California Underground Podcast is dedicated to discussing California politics for people who want to cut through the insanity and get real answers.*
Links Mentioned in the Show
https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/09/california-gas-tax-rebate/
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/gov-newsom-calls-for-tax-on-windfall-profits-on-oil-companies-after-abandoning-gas-tax-pause/
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/california-inflation-relief-checks-will-go-out-later-this-week/
https://rxmechanic.com/why-is-california-gas-so-expensive/
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Good morning everybody. Thanks for tuning in to another
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One day morning sipping on some black, a rifle, Blackbeard's
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it's it's good in certain amounts.
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you know, it's been gay. A little chilly here in San
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Stop stop brownout support nuclear sort of the theme of
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about Which is energy, gas prices.
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Everything that is happening going on in California right
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But yeah, it's sort of the theme of today talking about gas
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prices. We've talked about this before,
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but it seems they've started a new.
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This is the new headline, which is talking about gas prices, and
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why they're so high. And you know one side says oh
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lets you know let's tax the windfall profits tax this and
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then the other is saying you know it's not that we have to
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suspend the gas tax and there's a lot more to it.
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I think is a little bit more nuanced than just blaming it on
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big like oil corporations as there always is when ever comes
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to politics and political talking points there's always
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way more than then whatever. The political talking point is
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which is the point of this show. We're going to dive into this
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stuff so that you learn to think.
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And not just take everybody at their political word because
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everybody has a political slant and everybody's trying to tell
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you something and everybody's trying to push a certain agenda.
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So the point of this show is for us to sit down and talk and kind
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of dive into this stuff. So that you also go and dive
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into this stuff. And then when people, you see,
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people fighting back and forth on Twitter saying stuff like, oh
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well, It's because of the oil gas for windfall profits and
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some people say no. It's because of the taxes.
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It's a little bit of both. It's definitely a both.
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Well actually it has nothing to do with profits.
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I will say that right out now. Yeah it's interesting Camille
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Bridges, brought up a good point in the chat which is what if
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there was such collusion for price gouging.
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Now price gouging is illegal. If there was such evidence that
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there was price gouging going on in the state of California.
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Do you not think that? Only Rob bonta would just
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automatically just go right into a frothy rage when it comes to
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Prosecuting and setting up some big case against all the oil
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companies who are colluding with each other.
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But because they, there is no evidence of collusion that they
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are all colluding to raise prices and raising profits as
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much as possible. Obviously, they can't bring a
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case but they keep saying that all these oil companies are
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colluding and bring up the the price of gas because they want
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the windfall profits. Just keep that in mind.
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If there was such a big case that they were colluding
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legally, they would be able to bring a case and they haven't
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done. So there's been no talk about
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it. There's been in this
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investigative committee which were going to talk about but it
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it hasn't really done a lot. It's met twice in the past since
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June because it's that's how high priority it is for you.
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tomorrow night, we're going to have Brian Dolly.
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gubernatorial candidate. We're going to talk to him and
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he's been nice enough to stretch it from a half an hour to an
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hour. So we're going to Pepper him
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with a bunch of questions. We're going to really really
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talk to him about a lot of this stuff.
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Tough really get to know him and stuff.
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Like I know a lot of people who are followers, don't really know
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O'Brien dolly is, or before he started to run.
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I'm excited to have him on his first time I'm ever talking to
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him. So this is really exciting.
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It's really great that he's coming on and kind of meeting
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with independent podcasters like myself.
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out he was on his show, so check him out too.
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I'm going to make sure I go over that podcast again so I don't
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ask the same repeat questions, but yeah.
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Brian dolly is going to be on the program tomorrow night.
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We also have some other big candidates and political figures
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lining up and yeah, it's going to be a crazy kind of mad dash
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until election, which is 34 days away or so.
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So we, we got a lot of work to do.
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We got propositions, we got to break down all of that stuff is
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going to be coming up in the next month.
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This is really crunch time. Really crunch time here and
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we're going to do our best to give you as much.
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Such as much stuff as possible going into the election so that
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you're educated. So other people you can educate
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other people and that way, you know, that's the whole point of
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this. Like I said, this is the whole
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point is to kind of sit down and talk about this stuff.
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So it's not just blindly voting red blue, whatever.
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My party says whatever their party says.
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So you can actually break stuff down make that informed
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decision. So with that said, I'm gonna
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take another sip of coffee. I haven't had enough coffee yet
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so if I seem a little hazy it's because I haven't had enough
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coffee yet. All right.
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So let's dive into this story about the gas prices and what
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the heck is going on? Well, we all know what's going
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on. They're out of control.
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Yeah, I mean I went before I left for my most recent trip, it
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jumped up 15 cents passed by a Chevron of 688 for regular.
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Now Chevron is always a little bit more expensive because they
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had that engine cleaner and stuff like that, but every other
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place I saw was over six dollars, just for a regular gas.
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Like premium not like super whatever everywhere.
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All of a sudden it just spiked up overnight.
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Now I'm not saying it was great before.
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I'm not saying that any way that we look at the gas prices and
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say like oh things were great before but you know you were
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looking at prices coming down and that the regular price of
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gasoline was coming down. Under five dollars, may be
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marginally under five dollars. If you went to places like
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Costco or something like that but to have it spiked up again
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to over. Six dollars is shocking to
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California. Consumers.
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And people in California, because every dollar that you
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add to gas prices does hurt people who are the most
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vulnerable, when it comes to their economic status, where
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they can make the decisions that they need to make, which is do,
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I fill up my gas tank or do I have to buy food and these are
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really tough decisions for a lot of Californians.
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Now, when it comes to the price of gas here and of course, the
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first thing that noodles has said that he's jumped all over,
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is that this is something to do with windfall.
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And that's always the line that they like to go to, which is
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this is when Paul windfall profit.
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So he says, I'm kind of groups that will never see gas below $4
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a gallon and again, in my life at least in California.
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Yeah. I mean I think the problem is
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people just adjust and that's another thing people.
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Just when they see the price of gas go up, they adjust their
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budget because now, all of a sudden you're finding do, I
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spend all the money on filling up my tank.
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Maybe I only fill up my tank, a little here, and a little bit
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there, maybe I fill up as a per needed basis, Maybe.
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I don't travel as much. Maybe I kind of plan out where
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I'm going like for me, I know that if I'm going out, I got to
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drive somewhere, I try to make one trip.
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I try not to go back home and then come back out.
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Like, if I'm going out, I'm going out, I'm going to try and
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get everything done that day while I'm out and kind of make
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like a little plan of like where I'm going to go and stuff.
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I don't want to go and then drive and then come back out and
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all that stuff. And I think there's probably a
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lot of people who are doing. You adjust your spending habits
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based on what you have to spend on and right now.
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Gas is eating a lot of people's budgets to the point where
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they're probably not going out as much recreationally.
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They're not doing a lot of things.
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People probably just staying at home as much more, they probably
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not ordering takeout and it's, you know, it does change a lot
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of people spending habits. And yeah, someone said changing
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driving habits. I've had sort of this mentality
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for a while. Now, since gas kind of spiked
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up, which was, you know, you try not to think of all.
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I'm just going to drive all over the place and drive all over my
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counting to do x, y and z are going to try and keep it simple,
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you know, get as much stuff delivered as possible, but it is
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a huge, huge deterrent for a lot of other spending activities
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which hurts the larger California economy when people
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are not spending as much if they're not spending as much
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going out to buy that sandwich at the local sandwich shop.
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Now, the local mom-and-pop sandwich shop is suffering
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because people aren't coming in as much or the local coffee shop
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is Is kind of suffering because people think well, I'm not going
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to spend five dollars a day to go to my local coffee shop that
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I love to support instead. I'm going to save that money for
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gas because I got to drive to work every single day.
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Combine that with now we're what a year and a half or so removed
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from the end of the pandemic. Which by the way I would like to
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say that the pandemic is officially over just based on
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the fact that Trader Joe's has brought free samples back and if
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free samples are back at Trader, Joe's, that must be a good.
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Sign that we're out of the pandemic and, and we've made it.
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It was the first time I saw the other day.
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There were free samples. I was like, I can't believe
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there's free samples and Trader. Joe's, again, this is I haven't
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seen this in a long time. They haven't brought back the
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hot free samples yet. Just the free samples, like,
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they can hand out. Like pumpkin spice, espresso
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beans. Yes, I did buy a packet there 99
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Cents, you can live a little. So as I was saying, what was I
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saying? Yeah.
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You're as you're seeing more and more people are now being asked
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to go back to the office and commute more, you're seeing
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traffic build up, its going to be a big deterrent on the
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California economy. There's no two ways about it and
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the people. It hurts the most are those
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basically, middle lower and down.
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When it comes to economic status, those people who can't
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afford to their living paycheck-to-paycheck, they were
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stretching their paycheck as it was, and now, These gas prices
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are eating away more and more of your gas price or more and more
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of your budget. This past weekend, I was in
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Arizona and we filled up the tank 377 so is like, 40 bucks.
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We filled up our tank or I mean it wasn't completely empty, but
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still $40 filled up our entire tank.
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It was like, I would say 3/4 empty.
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So, there's only a quarter of a tank left and we filled it up
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for 40 bucks, makes a big difference.
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It makes a big difference because all that Stuff does have
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a residual, trickle-down impact, the price of gas impacts the
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prices of goods when those things have to get shipped from
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one location to another, when truckers have to ship those
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things from one place to another price of goods are going to go
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up because if it costs more for the person who produces those
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goods, the shipper now has to spend more in gasoline.
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So everything is starting to go up.
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Combine that with the horrible inflation that we're seeing.
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It's not a good remedy. So obviously, The, the failsafe
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is to have a huge video where you say, oh it's all because of
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windfall profits. And because the corporation's
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the oil, evil oil companies, if there's any left, evil oil
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companies in left, in California are colluding to raise
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everything. As much as profits are possible,
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it does warrant some sort of response.
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So let's get in a couple of these articles and then I'll
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open it up for questions and comments.
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Stuff that we always like to talk about you.
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More coffee. All right, so this is first
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article is from the California, a globe.
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One of our favorite sources and this is Governor Newsom calls
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for a tax on windfall profits, on oil.
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Companies after abandon gas tax, pause says he's returning
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profits California's. After passing sweeping climate
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change bills further restricting, oil and gas
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extraction. That might be one of the first
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things. If you're further restricting,
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something that you need more of, right?
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If you need more, More of it to lower the price that might be
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step. One, is that if you're already
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restricting the product and the creation of that product, that's
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probably a lot. Y of oil is very expensive, here
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in California and gas is really expensive.
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This is what noodle said, crude oil prices are dropping oil and
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gas, companies are still raising prices on California consumers,
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he's announcing a windfall profits tax on oil.
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Companies of course, any sort of tax has to go through the
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legislature. He can't just He can't just
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announce attacks Governor's. Can't do that.
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Although there are plenty of Governors who do promise that
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they're going to pass taxes. One Infamous.
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One said he wants to do a tourist acts.
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He was going to tax every tourist in the coming into
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California. Don't know how that was going to
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happen but that's stuff that some governor's do propose.
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They think that they can get away with that.
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He says these price hikes cannot be attributed solely to refinery
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maintenance issues hurricane distributes disruptions or In
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state taxes. So he's in a, he's already
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admitting off the top, there are plenty of things that do affect
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the price of gas here in California.
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Refinery maintenance issues, hurricane, disruptions and state
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taxes. All those things are true, and
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they all have an effect on your overall price of gallon for gas.
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Gas prices have increased by a record of Point 84 cents per
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gallon in just one week. The governor said in a video
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Governor Newsom address the 250 difference between California's
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highest in the nation gas prices over.
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Seven dollars in some California locations, and the rest of the
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country, quote, this degree of Divergence from the national
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prices has never happened before.
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In oil companies, they provide no explanation.
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The fact is they're ripping you off.
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He said their record profits are coming at your expense.
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So let's start right here. The first thing right off the
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bat is that he says they provide no explanation even though in
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the same video he says that there's a whole bunch of
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different reasons why gas is really expensive in California
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including refinery maintenance. Hurricane disruptions or state
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taxes. So let's talk about what
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happened with the refinery which is a lot something a lot of
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people are not talking about right now.
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There's an issue with one of the remaining refineries here in the
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state of California. There is a Refinery, it's one of
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chevron's Refinery. It says that they're operating
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81 percent capacity as a combination of planned
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maintenance and the unplanned maintenance going on right now,
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says Denton it appears a number of Refineries went on planned
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maintenance at the same time. Then we saw at least one Chevron
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Richmond, go out and an unplanned manner.
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So suddenly California's gasoline Supply was cut back
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quite a bit so there's maintenance issues.
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You got to keep up with a Refinery does require a lot of
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Maintenance in a statement. Those at Chevron Richmond said
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quote we do not discuss specific operational.
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Details related to our facility, but Bornstein says the
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situation. There has impacted State gas
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prices the Richmond. Refinery situation seems to be
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the one that was unplanned. That we didn't know was already
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going to happen and that is a major supplier of California
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gasoline. So it's disruption probably had
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a significant effect on gasoline prices and this is from a
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statement from Chevron Richmond. So after all of this stuff came
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out, Chevron Richmond, decided that instead of just taking it
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lying down, they're going to release a statement as to why
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gas prices can be so expensive. Many factors figure into the
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price of a gallon of gasoline, including some unique one,
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specific to California. In addition to the price of oil,
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other factors include competitive conditions, in the
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marketplace, the higher cost to produce gasoline to the specific
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specifications required. By the California air resources
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board costs associated with fuel distribution, local state and
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federal taxes. California carbon compliance
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costs, recent inflationary pressure, and fixed costs of
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doing business that are often higher in California relative to
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other state. The cost of commercial real
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estate. For example, the majority of our
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brain is stationed in, California are owned by
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Independent Business. People who make their own
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decisions about the prices. Charge at their stations, so
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Chevron themselves who are the refinery specifically saying
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look, we only have control over so many things and when it comes
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to maintenance, these are things that we have to do.
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There's a number of different things that kind of add up to.
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Why gas is so expensive here in the state of California.
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One of the things that California air resources board,
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recently, while noodles is saying, we need to investigate
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and have this investigation and talk about a tax on the windfall
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profits, a huge windfall, profits of the oil companies.
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He is also in the background negotiating with a lot of the
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refineries to switch as fast as possible to the winter blend.
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They called the winter blend gasoline, which is a lot cheaper
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to produce. Why would he be rushing to do
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that? It's because he knows that
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refineries have, the ability to do so, and he knows that because
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of this regulation regarding summer blind, which is when it's
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hotter out. And then I guess, Something
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somebody can explain it in the chat, probably a lot better than
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I can something about when it's hotter outside, it produces less
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emissions and stuff like that, but that is a big issue.
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So, for him, to admit that, please go to the winter.
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Blend as fast as possible. Shows you right there that, he
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admits that. There is something that has an
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impact. A regulation.
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From the California air resources board, has an impact
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on the price. Case of gas and he's already
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saying like let's go back to the winter blend because that's a
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lot cheaper and I'll shave like fifty cents off the price of a
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gallon. That's a big swing fifty.
00:19:09
Cents is nice. We're still way over four
00:19:12
dollars which I think a lot of people is kind of there.
00:19:14
Like pressure point over $4 in people are shining a little
00:19:17
antsy over the price of gas. Now, six dollars, it's almost
00:19:20
terrifying to think about it, but that's an admission right
00:19:26
there. In my mind, if he's already
00:19:29
saying there's windfall tax robber, he's tall.
00:19:31
The one thing which is the political talking point, it's
00:19:34
the stuff that gets him, the political points, it gets him,
00:19:37
the likes on Twitter, it gets him the retweets and stuff like
00:19:41
that. But in the background now you
00:19:43
have him saying. Well look, I understand, we have
00:19:46
this like really expensive summer blend that we the state
00:19:50
of California require you to do because of smog and all that
00:19:53
stuff. Can we just like quietly switch?
00:19:56
It back to Winter as soon as possible like it's close enough,
00:19:59
right? It's October, we're closed.
00:20:00
Enough to win or maybe we could just switch it back to that.
00:20:02
So already has an implicit admission on his part that there
00:20:06
is regulations and there are regulations that have an impact
00:20:09
on the price. Overall costs associated with
00:20:13
field distribution of local state and federal taxes.
00:20:15
California carbon compliance. That's always been a big issue
00:20:17
dealing with the carbon compliance of California
00:20:20
inflation. Yep gotta talk about inflation.
00:20:23
Inflation has been hurting the American Consumer and their
00:20:27
wallets staring. Basically everyone around the
00:20:29
world because what happens Print a ton of money.
00:20:33
Those countries did see the worst of inflation even European
00:20:38
countries. That printed a ton of money for
00:20:40
covid Relief, and stuff like that are now starting to see a
00:20:43
lot of inflation. Fixed cost of doing business are
00:20:46
off their higher in California, correct?
00:20:49
Everything's more expensive in California and that's something
00:20:51
about California that I've said before.
00:20:53
Which is that I believe there's a lot of businesses that thrive
00:20:57
in California, despite California Yeah.
00:21:00
And I think that a lot of people say, well, it's the fifth
00:21:03
largest economy, and it's doing so well, and then, I think it
00:21:07
could be even better. It could be like, one of the top
00:21:10
three economies in the entire world.
00:21:12
It's big enough. It's necessarily bigger than
00:21:16
most countries, is bigger than a lot of European countries,
00:21:18
that's for sure. It has a much wider amount of
00:21:21
Natural Resources. A lot more expansive, amount of
00:21:25
Coastline different, climate temperatures, all that stuff.
00:21:29
California has an abundance of Things to offer, if things were
00:21:32
done correctly. That's why I say, like a lot of
00:21:35
businesses, I think are successful despite everything
00:21:37
that goes on in California. But it is way more expensive to
00:21:42
do stuff. You know, an 800 dollar minimum
00:21:45
tax, just for setting up a business is an incredible tax on
00:21:49
small businesses. I've dealt with it myself, if
00:21:52
you're a person who just goes out on their own, hangs up their
00:21:55
own shingle and says, look, I want to start my own business
00:21:58
and the state of California goes.
00:21:59
Hey, that's great. Fantastic.
00:22:00
Thank you so much. Looks like you don't owe any
00:22:03
taxes this year because you were at a loss.
00:22:05
It's your first year. You're kind of like getting off
00:22:07
the ground. That's awesome.
00:22:08
That's fantastic. By the way, you owe us $800.
00:22:12
$800 a lot of money if you're not planning on spending it in
00:22:16
that way, if you're planning on spending it on advertising or
00:22:20
payroll or something like that, eight hundred dollars can be a
00:22:22
big swing. For a lot of small businesses
00:22:24
that are just getting off the ground and especially when
00:22:26
you're just trying to make things work in the first year or
00:22:28
two, it's not easy. It just Row eight hundred
00:22:31
dollars, but that's just one example of how California's not
00:22:34
super small business friendly. And that's just one example of
00:22:37
how California itself is just more expensive to operate.
00:22:40
And to, let's talk about. There's this other quote, Kevin
00:22:45
Slagle, vice president of the Strategic Communications, for
00:22:47
the western states, petroleum Association described the
00:22:51
allegations as ridiculous. And this is kind of him talking
00:22:54
about the allegations that they're making this enormous
00:22:57
amount of profits, despite bands mandates.
00:23:00
And other policies that increase energy costs.
00:23:02
Our members are doing all they can to produce and refine, more
00:23:05
energy, and fuels to keep up with demand.
00:23:08
Keep in mind, the first $1.28 per gallon, we all pay at the
00:23:12
pump today. Goes to taxes fees and
00:23:14
Regulatory programs imposed by the state are policy environment
00:23:17
matters when it comes to energy costs and our policy environment
00:23:20
is getting more restrictive and costly than ever.
00:23:24
So, Going back. Let's talk more about.
00:23:29
I'll talk more about this article over here.
00:23:36
The overall goal of Newsom, sweeping climate change, package
00:23:39
is achieving net, zero ghg emissions in the state and that
00:23:43
means outlawing oil and gas. Imagine that a company.
00:23:48
You know, if you're a company and you're an oil company in the
00:23:50
United States, what makes you want to really invest in?
00:23:52
Keep going in California, if you're not going to be, welcome
00:23:55
in California in 10 years. I mean, that doesn't really make
00:23:58
any sense. You wouldn't plot along and
00:24:01
continue to invest in continue to work so hard to be in
00:24:03
California. Even though there's high demand
00:24:07
in those incredible demand in the state of 40 million plus
00:24:10
people, there still a lot of demand for gasoline for people
00:24:14
especially a big expensive State like this where people need to
00:24:17
drive a lot. There's still a lot of demand
00:24:20
for the like oil companies were probably just backing off and
00:24:22
going and I'll probably I'm just probably not worth it.
00:24:26
So pretty much everything we use in our society needs to be
00:24:28
upended overhauled, in a restricted, according to
00:24:30
Governor Newsom in the burgeoning industry of climate
00:24:33
change hustlers. Yet when the California
00:24:36
legislature had a chance to Halt, increase in California gas
00:24:39
tax increases. They didn't nor did the governor
00:24:43
in March. The assembly Transportation
00:24:44
committee was set to hear a be 1638 by a sub.
00:24:47
Only man. Kevin Kylie to suspend
00:24:50
California's, 51 Cent, gas tax, gas tax is now 54 cents, because
00:24:54
remember, it goes up every single year.
00:24:57
By the way, how are your roads doing your roads pristine?
00:25:00
Your roads are fantastic now, right?
00:25:02
Like you don't see any potholes. You don't see any rough roads.
00:25:05
Raise your hand. If you.
00:25:06
Any if your roads absolutely fantastic to suspend
00:25:12
californica, Kylie know that Maryland and Georgia had just
00:25:15
reduced their gas tax in the people.
00:25:16
Those States saw immediate results, he said, rebates are a
00:25:20
good idea, especially with the substantial State Surplus and
00:25:22
should be much larger returning to overtax taxpayers more of
00:25:26
their own money. So, I mean, I don't agree with
00:25:32
the whole rebate idea. I think just here's an idea.
00:25:35
Why not just this Ben guy site. When we just suspend all these
00:25:38
taxes for right now, if you have an enormous Surplus, right?
00:25:40
If you have an enormous Surplus where the state is bullying, you
00:25:45
know, bragging about the fact that they have this enormous
00:25:48
surplus of money that they're sitting on.
00:25:51
Couldn't you say maybe we don't need to take so much money from
00:25:54
these other places where people are hurting and we can get rid
00:25:56
of this stuff. Probably because they're afraid
00:25:59
that if they get rid of it where they suspend it, it will likely
00:26:01
never want to come back. Like, how would you want to be?
00:26:04
Would you want to be the politician who suspend it?
00:26:07
And all of a sudden you have to say oh actually we're going to
00:26:10
put a dollar back in taxes and fees and Regulatory costs and
00:26:13
all that stuff back in your price of gallon for gas because
00:26:16
we want to and because we need that Revenue.
00:26:19
While also saying that you have a what how many billions of
00:26:22
dollars in Surplus, I think you just get rid of all of them, but
00:26:27
that's just me. Rebates are fine.
00:26:30
They, I mean they're fine because you get money in your
00:26:33
pocket. Not, everyone's gonna be using
00:26:34
that. For gasoline though, I want to
00:26:35
have a notch, people are going to use it on other things.
00:26:39
However, legislative Antics in partisan politics, one the day,
00:26:42
rather than debating, the proposal to suspend the summer.
00:26:44
Gas tax increase College bill was, hijacked by democrats, who
00:26:46
passed amendments to gut the bill.
00:26:48
So, they cannot be accused of For gas tax increase.
00:26:51
If you don't remember, I did a video on this, this was with the
00:26:56
little assemblyman Lee, you know, I can't baby lie because
00:27:00
he is a young child, he's like 22 or 23 years old, he still
00:27:03
lives with his mother, he openly admits that, he lives with his
00:27:05
mother, he's done that on Twitter, he was the one who
00:27:08
thought it was be just such a known if he took Kevin Kylie's
00:27:13
Bill and then passed amendment to gotten a Madman.
00:27:16
Kevin Kylie knew immediately, what was going on?
00:27:18
He's smart enough to To figure that out, immediately tried to
00:27:21
pull his bill and they got an amended, it and just completely
00:27:24
destroyed his bill. And then we turn it into
00:27:26
something about social housing or something.
00:27:29
That assemblyman Lee is obsessed with, if you want to see, like a
00:27:33
preview of what California is the road, California is headed
00:27:37
down if we're not, if we don't try and fight and take things
00:27:39
back for the way they should be. Look at assemblyman's Lee.
00:27:42
Praise of the Karl, Marx social housing over in Europe.
00:27:46
It's on Twitter. He just he loves this Karl Marx.
00:27:49
So Housing idea in living these ugly, disgusting.
00:27:53
Huge, lifeless, apartment buildings.
00:27:56
That. That's where he wants everybody
00:27:57
to live. That's his idea.
00:27:59
That's what he loves about social housing.
00:28:02
So go check out Alex Lee. He's also 22 or 23.
00:28:05
So the stuff he says, pretty kind of idiotic and immature
00:28:10
democrats diddled for 100 days to provide relief at the pump
00:28:12
for the state's drivers from the record high gas prices, the
00:28:15
globe reported in June California, Democrats abandon
00:28:18
the opportunity for a gas tax Aditi and then announced they
00:28:20
are forming a new committee to investigate gas price gouging to
00:28:22
make it up here. They were doing something now
00:28:26
let's talk about the assembly or the investigation.
00:28:29
This this is from Cal matters different article.
00:28:32
The State Assembly in June formed a select committee to
00:28:34
investigate why California's gas prices are so much higher than
00:28:36
the rest of the country. The committee has met twice
00:28:39
twice twice, that was it since June twice.
00:28:45
It's such an important matter to your California legislature.
00:28:49
Up legislators up in Sacramento. They have met twice.
00:28:53
So they've been investing a been hard at work investigating,
00:28:57
right? These legislative been hard at
00:28:58
work investigating, why are gas prices so expensive, in the
00:29:01
state of California, must be those oil.
00:29:02
Evil oil companies, they've met a total of twice, right?
00:29:10
Shows you sort of how let's just say how important it is to them.
00:29:15
Let's just say whether there's a high priority for that or
00:29:18
whether or not This was just a political stunt, so that they
00:29:21
could say, we've started a committee kind of like the
00:29:23
January 6, or whatever other committee you want to talk about
00:29:25
Benghazi. I mean, all that stuff.
00:29:27
All this stuff is just political show, is dog and pony show.
00:29:31
So that politics can politicians can say, oh look, we started a
00:29:35
committee to investigate. Why gas prices are so high.
00:29:39
Oh, great, a great. Have you figured it out?
00:29:41
You're the experts, right? You figure this out.
00:29:45
No, we've only met twice. Do you plan on medium or no, I'm
00:29:48
just the holidays. We're busy.
00:29:50
So so in, Jackie Irwin, the kamaria Democrat leaves, the
00:29:55
panel told the cow matters in a statement, the select committee
00:30:00
on gasoline Supply. And pricing has been
00:30:01
investigating long-term solutions to address
00:30:03
California's high gas prices. The committee will be releasing
00:30:06
a report in the next few weeks with recommendations, based on
00:30:09
testimony from numerous stakeholders and Industry.
00:30:12
Experts Phil legislator can consider in the upcoming
00:30:15
session. Okay, not going to really hold
00:30:20
my breath on this investigative committee especially the fact
00:30:23
that you can read article after article after article explaining
00:30:27
exactly why gas prices are so high down to the specific dollar
00:30:31
amount. Scott will coo is the Senate.
00:30:35
Republican leader, the state senate, Republican leader.
00:30:38
He provided the numbers, specifically of why gas is so
00:30:43
expensive per gallon in the state of California.
00:30:47
He provided that 51.1% actually went up, its 54 percent goes to
00:30:53
the state, gas tax, 25 cents goes to cap-and-trade 22 cents,
00:30:58
goes to low carbon fuel standard two cents goes to underground
00:31:02
storage fee, 10 to 15 cents, switch to Summer blank, cost
00:31:06
more to produce than a type of gasoline and 14.4 percent state
00:31:11
sales tax. So here we are.
00:31:17
Scott wolf is provided you the exact numbers of why gas is so
00:31:20
expensive in the state of California.
00:31:23
Meanwhile, there's an investigative committee that
00:31:24
says they're going to get to the bottom.
00:31:26
It don't you worry. They're going to get to the
00:31:27
bottom of it. I would love to if they came out
00:31:29
honestly and they were like, well, we did an investigation.
00:31:33
It turns out. There's a lot of taxes.
00:31:36
Yeah. There's a lot of taxes and
00:31:37
Regulatory schemes, why? Your guys is so expensive
00:31:41
course, they won't say that they will say something about how
00:31:43
guys is huge windfall rights. Huge windfall.
00:31:47
For those oil, evil oil companies, which is why you need
00:31:50
to get an electric car, right? That's exactly where it all
00:31:53
comes back to. Alright, one more thing and I'm
00:31:57
going to open it up for the chat and questions and stuff like
00:32:00
that. Last thing if you thought that
00:32:03
this was all bad news, don't worry.
00:32:07
Help is on the way. Okay, help is on the way.
00:32:11
because this week probably by the end of this week, if you're
00:32:15
lucky enough, you may see the inflation relief, check from
00:32:21
California, show up in your bank, in a direct deposit,
00:32:26
great, right. In June both sides, finally came
00:32:32
to a grant of their talking. This is Con talking about their
00:32:34
inflation relief. Remember, this was all the way
00:32:37
back in June. They were talking about
00:32:38
inflation was so bad, so they're trying to figure out how to
00:32:40
combat inflation. So their idea of in combating
00:32:43
inflation is to spend government money to fight.
00:32:47
Inflation. I mean, I'll let you figure out
00:32:54
how that solves inflation, but I don't think it solves an any
00:32:58
inflation in June both sides. Finally came to agreement worth
00:33:01
a total of 17 billion dollars. According to the agreed upon
00:33:05
package, those making up to 75 thousand dollars a year or joint
00:33:09
filers who make up. 250 will get.
00:33:12
Hold on, hold on. You may not know what to do with
00:33:17
all of this $350. That's, that's the top-tier
00:33:24
those who make up to 125 year in joint, filers up to 250 will get
00:33:27
200. $250 each those who make up to 250 dollars.
00:33:32
Two hundred fifty thousand dollars a year or 500 filing
00:33:35
jointly can get a whopping 200 thousand two hundred dollars
00:33:40
each one dependent may also be added at each tier for the same
00:33:44
amount as each filer. Mean calvary's could see as much
00:33:47
as 1 5750 or Six hundred dollars coming in per household
00:33:53
depending on the tier level. Just going to go out and say
00:33:58
anyone who if you're if you're single and you're making two
00:34:01
hundred fifty thousand dollars a year and your family is filing
00:34:05
jointly over 500 dollars a year.
00:34:07
Are you going to notice there was a 200 dollar payment that
00:34:10
went into your bank account. Seems kind of odd that they
00:34:13
would give sort of date. Oh, they always talk about like
00:34:16
corporate and and Elite and Wealthy bailout but it seems odd
00:34:20
that $200 for something. I mean, is it just kind of like
00:34:23
a token? I don't I don't know and that's
00:34:26
what this What kind of goes on to say, while many are happy to
00:34:30
receive the extra funds, many note that the timing shortly
00:34:32
before election day match on all time last year, when the Golden
00:34:36
State stimulus checks were sent out shortly before the governor
00:34:39
recall election. If you remember that everyone
00:34:41
got like six hundred dollars as part of the Golden State
00:34:43
stimulus to stimulate the economy because we're coming out
00:34:47
of covid. So that was the idea, everyone.
00:34:49
Here's your six hundred dollars. Go spend it as you want a move
00:34:53
widely seen as garnering, a last minute support bump for Newsome.
00:34:57
Kind of convenient. Yeah.
00:34:59
A lot of people say this, that it is convenient and a lot of
00:35:01
people are saying that this does seem like a payoff.
00:35:04
I'm not going to disagree with you, right?
00:35:06
I'm not going to disagree with you, that this does seem a
00:35:09
little shady that the you know just weeks before the election
00:35:12
all of a sudden just conveniently.
00:35:14
Now all of a sudden there's going to be a nice little check
00:35:16
in your, your bank account that goes hey don't forget, you know,
00:35:20
good old noodles remembered and remember that you are suffering
00:35:24
at the gas tank. So here's $200.
00:35:28
Phillip maybe once or twice quote, it's not as nearly as
00:35:34
drastic this year, since he has a subject manually, but this
00:35:37
does help Newsome right before the election, explain former
00:35:41
lobbyist hire a Schultz to the globe on Monday, free money
00:35:44
going out before an election, right?
00:35:45
During the beginning of a recession with consumer, prices
00:35:47
still being high. Yeah, that buys Goodwill.
00:35:51
Honestly, it's a good bet hedger, just in case.
00:35:53
Something catastrophic comes out that hurts Newsome, he still has
00:35:55
some cards to play in. This is one of them.
00:35:58
It has been odd timing, boast times to say the least.
00:36:02
And if I were centered Ali, I'd bring this up during the debate.
00:36:06
Definitely gonna bring this up tomorrow.
00:36:07
When he's on the podcast. 8 p.m. Live on YouTube, make sure you
00:36:10
join chicken adds plenty, plenty of questions and comments.
00:36:16
Somebody said, who am I just hearing about Brian Dolly?
00:36:19
Why am I just now here map? Robert?
00:36:20
And I don't know why you're just hearing about Brian Dolly, but
00:36:23
he's going to be on the show tomorrow night, 8 p.m. on
00:36:25
YouTube. So if you want to learn more
00:36:26
about them, definitely check it out.
00:36:28
I bring this up during debate, even just a passing mention of
00:36:31
it being coincidental. I also want to bring up why?
00:36:34
It's going to be a radio debate, and not television debate.
00:36:36
I think he's come out and said that he wants it to be a
00:36:38
television to pay, and we're going to talk about that.
00:36:42
Anyway, so to sum everything up. It's more complicated than just
00:36:51
windfall profits. They like to blame windfall
00:36:54
profits, they likes it, make all companies, the bad guy.
00:37:00
But it does require politicians to be honest.
00:37:02
It does require them to be a little bit more honest to say,
00:37:06
maybe we've gone a little too far in One Direction and maybe
00:37:08
we need to look at this. And the thing is, I think it was
00:37:13
Senator Tom Cotton, was it Tom Cotton?
00:37:16
Try to remember, it might not be Tom Cotton, but there was a
00:37:20
senator who once said that, once a tax is implicated, it never
00:37:23
goes away. So I asked, will you record the
00:37:26
debate? Actually, we're going to live
00:37:28
stream. Going to do a live stream of it,
00:37:29
so yes, there will be a recording of it.
00:37:32
You can watch us talk about it. Talk about the debate.
00:37:35
We're going to actually live streaming.
00:37:36
So as I was going to say, it requires the politicians to be a
00:37:45
little bit more honest. I think it does require, it
00:37:48
would be a breath of fresh air if Democrats came out.
00:37:51
Moderate Democrat said, hey, you know, there's a lot of these
00:37:56
things that we maybe don't need any more maybe we can suspend
00:38:03
these, or we don't need this and Maybe at the end, Amy, we should
00:38:08
help out to California. And maybe we, maybe prior people
00:38:11
before us impose this stuff, maybe we shouldn't do that
00:38:13
anymore. But to kind of go out and just
00:38:17
say it's one thing and it's one thing only that it's the oil
00:38:20
companies ripping you off. And as I tweeted yesterday, why
00:38:23
would they rip? Why would they wait till now, to
00:38:26
rip off the California consumer? When inflation is at historic
00:38:30
highs? When the economy is in the
00:38:33
toilet, Before rather than the previous administration where
00:38:39
the economy was roaring, people had disposable income things
00:38:43
were great oil prices and gas prices were super low.
00:38:48
Why wait till now why wait till things are really bad
00:38:51
economically for the what it doesn't make sense to me.
00:38:55
That's the argument I'm trying to figure out is that they
00:38:57
waited till now to gouge people, you would gouge people when
00:39:03
people have a lot of disposable income, Correct like most
00:39:06
businesses would now hey, the economy is doing really well.
00:39:09
Everyone has disposable income, people have more income and more
00:39:11
money in their pockets. Therefore, I'm going to raise my
00:39:16
price a little bit because I know I can get a little bit more
00:39:18
out of people and they don't really care.
00:39:20
Instead, you wait until the economy is really bad, and
00:39:23
people are penny-pinching to start gouging prices.
00:39:26
It seems kind of odd, especially in this economic landscape that
00:39:31
were and people aren't going to just accept it.
00:39:34
I think we We already talked about it and people in the chat
00:39:37
and let me know whether or not you just change your driving
00:39:41
habits. Whether you've decided you're
00:39:43
going to drive a lot less, that's sort of what is going on.
00:39:49
Now is that people are modifying their spending and they're not
00:39:53
necessarily running out and buying as much gas before.
00:39:56
Instead what's happening is that people are just going to be Buy
00:40:00
less gasoline, so you're not really going to get a windfall
00:40:03
profit but again that if you're trying to make logic of a lot,
00:40:06
if you're trying to make logic out of analogical argument is
00:40:09
kind of hard does make your brain hurt.
00:40:11
So again as the goal of this is always to look at this and see
00:40:17
that there's plenty of reasons why gas is so expensive in the
00:40:20
state of California, we have Refinery issues.
00:40:24
I personally think we need to bring more refineries back
00:40:26
online but that's just me. It's going to be hard to bring
00:40:29
refineries back online in a state where they're trying to
00:40:31
get rid of oil altogether, we need more Refinery.
00:40:35
So that one Refinery going down doesn't hurt as many people as
00:40:39
we think if there were more refineries, there would be more
00:40:42
failsafe. So that if one Refinery goes
00:40:43
down, I'm playing maintenance or there's a fire or something like
00:40:47
that, it doesn't hurt everybody. There's a lot of things that
00:40:53
really kind of could It to it. So this is getting rid of the
00:40:57
California air resources board. Yep, sure.
00:41:01
That's one thing as well because of all the regulations, the
00:41:03
carbon compliance all that stuff.
00:41:05
It does all contribute in one way or another, it's not all
00:41:09
100%. One specific thing such as the
00:41:12
windfall profits and it's important that people know that
00:41:16
and people are aware of that and they're educated on that.
00:41:18
So when they go out and people say, oh, it's all those evil oil
00:41:21
companies, we're just raising the prices on their own.
00:41:25
At least you can go out there and say yeah no no it's not
00:41:30
that. It's a whole bunch of all these
00:41:32
other things and this is the data backup.
00:41:35
Don't you go? Thinking logically encounter?
00:41:37
I know how dare me, trying to think logically in the state of
00:41:40
California? What a horrible thing on my
00:41:41
part. Alright.
00:41:44
With that said, let's open it up to any questions, comments,
00:41:47
stuff. Like I always like to leave a
00:41:48
little bit of time because that's the point of this is to
00:41:51
have coffee and discuss California politics.
00:41:54
Um, at the same time. So somebody had said before, I
00:41:59
want to get to this comment to client a paddleboard trip
00:42:02
paddleboarding trip out of town due to needing a community
00:42:05
conserve, gas looking for a second job and I have a good
00:42:08
full time job. Yeah.
00:42:10
That's really good to do to California.
00:42:15
That's let me go back to the first comment.
00:42:16
I'm gonna get to your comment. Did to dupe.
00:42:21
Yeah. It's that's exactly what I was
00:42:22
saying at the beginning. Which is that there's a lot of
00:42:25
people who are going to change their spending habits are going
00:42:29
to cut back on stuff now, you haven't gone on that.
00:42:32
Paddleboarding trip, you're not spending money on going paddle,
00:42:34
boarding and up by paddleboarding stuff.
00:42:35
You're not going to restaurants along the way you're not
00:42:37
spending money at a hotel or an Airbnb.
00:42:40
It has a trickle effect of the money does hurt and it does hurt
00:42:44
spending habits here in California.
00:42:45
And there's a lot of people who are doing the same thing.
00:42:49
So as a covering GOP posted in what props to vote.
00:42:52
No on. What's your take on it?
00:42:55
I haven't seen it yet. But if you saw last week's
00:42:58
episode stuff that looks Cynthia and I are going to be doing is
00:43:00
we're going to be breaking down a lot more of these
00:43:02
propositions. There's several more
00:43:04
propositions. We want to get to before the
00:43:07
election comes up, and it's probably going to take a couple
00:43:09
extra shows to kind of talk about this stuff and kind of get
00:43:12
everyone's feedback we talked about prop 26 and prop 27.
00:43:15
Last week, we disagreed on Prop 27, which is fine, We're still
00:43:20
friends. See what happens.
00:43:21
You can disagree about stuff and still be friends.
00:43:24
She said no on both. I said, yes, I'm prop 27.
00:43:26
Just because, you know, papa wants to be able to throw a
00:43:31
quick 20 on a football game, every once in awhile, makes it
00:43:33
kind of fun, but we're going to be going over it.
00:43:37
So those are helpful, those guides are helpful.
00:43:40
But I always, always, always always recommend that you do
00:43:42
your own research. You know, if you're kind of like
00:43:46
reading a proposition and you're not sure.
00:43:49
Sure what's going on with it and your kind of like I don't really
00:43:52
know what's going on, you know, which way do they lean?
00:43:55
There's been times they've said yes.
00:43:57
On one thing I've said know there's been times.
00:43:59
I said no one something I've said, yes.
00:44:02
If you look at like, I'm pretty sure like the libertarian party
00:44:05
of California, California. They probably have a proposition
00:44:08
guide as well. I would venture to say, they
00:44:13
probably say no on everything because it means more
00:44:15
government. So, but my point is, make sure
00:44:19
Read this stuff on your own. Don't just go.
00:44:22
Look at the voter guide because you're not being educated when
00:44:27
you vote. It's a helpful barometer and
00:44:31
Compass to kind of figure out, where am I going?
00:44:34
But it's not everything, read it, and figure it out.
00:44:37
I bet they say probably no on 27.
00:44:40
I say yes on 27 but that's just me.
00:44:44
I missed the salad. Doggy taking her morning nap.
00:44:46
Yeah. She's in here, every once in a
00:44:47
while. So sometimes, you know, when the
00:44:51
wife's around, she hangs out with her in the morning, prop,
00:44:53
22, haven't dived into prop, 22, yet, with OPEC, decreasing oil
00:44:59
production. Have you heard anything about
00:45:00
how much this will affect Californians?
00:45:02
I haven't yet, but I imagine it's going to hurt everybody.
00:45:06
I imagine, it's going to absolutely hurt everybody.
00:45:08
It's gonna Force, you know, former Vice President, Joe Biden
00:45:12
into a position. And where he's going to have to
00:45:15
figure out. Do I really push for more
00:45:19
domestic oil production? Because if OPEC is decreasing
00:45:24
oil production, we're really going to be in a world of hurt
00:45:27
and gas prices, you know, gas prices politically it's the one
00:45:31
thing that people drive by all the time and it's the one thing
00:45:35
that they can kind of go to The Ballot Box and figure out and
00:45:39
say, you know, this party is in power, gas is really high,
00:45:43
previous party was in power. Gas was really low.
00:45:46
So Cavalry do I said no on everything in their post
00:45:48
yesterday, that's not surprising.
00:45:51
Newsom science. But again, if they say no, I
00:45:55
challenge you to go look at everything and say, do you agree
00:45:59
with them saying, no, just don't vote.
00:46:01
No, because of everything, look at them and examine them and
00:46:06
read them for yourselves, read the fiscal effect, read the
00:46:09
positive negative like going back to last week's episode
00:46:13
about prop 26 and prop, 27 prop, 26. 70% of what they're going to
00:46:17
make a prop 26 or the money that their state revenue that the
00:46:20
designate for Revenue is going to go into the general fund.
00:46:24
What that means is the general fund is this big huge pot of
00:46:26
money that legislators get to pick from and they get to
00:46:28
allocate money to. It could go from helping the
00:46:32
homeless to public schools to researching the Delta smelt to
00:46:38
who knows, whatever the heck else they could be doing but
00:46:42
prop, 27, 85% of everything that they're going to make is going
00:46:46
to go to homeless programs and the other 15 is going to go to
00:46:49
the gambling addiction. So I do like that.
00:46:51
Fact that if they're going to make money off of this, it's
00:46:53
specifically earmarked to exactly what it's going to go
00:46:56
to. But you wouldn't know that if
00:46:58
you just read and no you would have to dive into these
00:47:01
propositions to figure out exactly what that means.
00:47:05
But if you're also someone who's like, I don't like the idea of
00:47:08
sports gambling. That's fine as well.
00:47:09
But always always always look and read Newsom signed executive
00:47:14
order, nine and 1919, which redirected gas tax money to
00:47:18
other projects, than raise the gas tax again.
00:47:20
Yeah. This was something I talked
00:47:22
about a while back and this was in the early days of this
00:47:25
platform when I talked about the gas tax, and I was going over,
00:47:28
propositions back then there was like, I don't know, nobody out
00:47:32
there was listening to me. Anyway, really early on, and I
00:47:35
remember telling people back then, if you look at the gas
00:47:38
tax, there was a stipulation, gas tax.
00:47:42
Did not all have to go to roads and they promised it as the gas
00:47:48
tax is going to go to fix the roads and infrastructure.
00:47:50
That's the The point of a gas tax, you use the roads have to
00:47:53
pay for gas. Therefore this is how you're
00:47:56
going to do it. And there's something hidden
00:47:59
inside that proposition when they passed it.
00:48:01
Which said the legislature can, then deem and do whatever they
00:48:04
were really want with that money, they can send us a
00:48:07
general fund. They can figure out what else to
00:48:08
do with it. It's not locked into.
00:48:10
It's not like in a little lockbox that call it, where it
00:48:13
just goes to the roads and all that it goes, you can go
00:48:16
anywhere. And so that's why you got to be
00:48:18
careful about these propositions.
00:48:20
If you look at the commercials, they'll say one thing, they'll
00:48:22
say, oh well, this money goes to X Y and Z.
00:48:25
They always, you know, the I called The Four Horsemen of
00:48:28
empathy, which is, you know, First Responders police
00:48:32
firefighters EMTs, you know, teachers all that stuff.
00:48:37
The people who like, why would you want to vote against them
00:48:40
getting money? That doesn't make any sense, but
00:48:43
when you dive into it there's no guarantee it might go to any of
00:48:45
those people so you got to look at that stuff.
00:48:50
California. Gets 56 percent of its crude
00:48:51
from overseas. Yeah, we talked about that.
00:48:54
They do get a lot of it from lot of plays in Central America.
00:48:58
So it is interesting that we could drill responsibly a lot
00:49:03
more here to help Californians, but we do by most of our guys
00:49:09
from overseas. Where we're not sure what the
00:49:10
environmental impact is. Are they paying their workers a
00:49:14
fair wage. Are they taking care of them
00:49:17
stuff like that? So yeah.
00:49:21
What are the ramifications of making abortion rights in
00:49:24
California constitutional, right?
00:49:26
Well, they're pretty large because a California,
00:49:29
Constitutional Amendment takes a lot to get rid of.
00:49:32
I'm a window referendum and we can get rid of it right
00:49:35
afterwards. A lot of people can do that.
00:49:37
You're going to, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a
00:49:40
referendum on this Constitutional Amendment, but it
00:49:44
makes it a constitutional amendment, right?
00:49:46
Meaning is the highest right in the state of California.
00:49:49
It's not just a, you know, State writer stuff.
00:49:51
That if it's in the Constitution the Constitution is the ultimate
00:49:55
right in California, it is the top legal document governs
00:49:59
everything and so therefore anything else that tries to
00:50:05
let's say Temecula tried to say they were abortion free or they
00:50:09
were trying to say I think they were trying to ban it or
00:50:12
something like that. Looking into the story.
00:50:15
The city of Temecula could get sued and they would say, well
00:50:18
under the Constitution, California you are prohibiting
00:50:20
this, right? Therefore you're not in
00:50:25
compliance and it would be struck down.
00:50:27
So making it a constitutional right.
00:50:30
Gives it the highest priority and Power in the land and that's
00:50:36
why it's so much different than just a law because a law could
00:50:40
be changed. The law could be deemed to not
00:50:42
work with other laws but making it Constitutional right?
00:50:46
Gives it the biggest sort of protection.
00:50:50
Do you have all those talk shows still up to listen to?
00:50:53
Yeah, I believe there's still if you go to Anchored FM forward
00:50:58
slash California underground or on Spotify, think they list all
00:51:02
the episodes but anger dot. F m-- definitely has them.
00:51:05
You can go way back and go all the way to the back of when I
00:51:07
first really started doing this and you can hear me just kind of
00:51:11
talking into a microphone all by myself before we had guests.
00:51:14
And, you know, all that stuff before we had people like Ryan
00:51:20
Dolly coming out. I was just being chatting into a
00:51:22
microphone. I always say no on everything.
00:51:25
That's a safe bet. You can get them online.
00:51:27
Phil, you can't gamble. You can't place any bets on line
00:51:31
in California. That's what prop 27 changes.
00:51:34
If I wanted to put a quick 20 on a football game or something,
00:51:38
can't do that in the state of California because they look
00:51:40
based on your IP address and stuff like that and if you try
00:51:43
and get around it, it's you know, whole legal issue.
00:51:46
Even the best intention propositions have nefarious
00:51:48
reasons. Yes.
00:51:50
Yeah I would definitely agree with that.
00:51:54
I'm covering is enough crew to be self-sustaining, but lacks
00:51:57
refining capacity. Yeah, I would agree with that.
00:52:01
California probably has enough natural resources to be
00:52:04
completely self-sustaining. You know, we should have an
00:52:08
abundance of energy, we should have an abundance of fuel.
00:52:11
We should have an abundance of food.
00:52:12
We should have an abundance of, I mean, everything.
00:52:16
California really is a land of milk and honey.
00:52:19
That is Just held down. I feel like it's just, it could
00:52:23
be. So it could be a thriving Beacon
00:52:26
for the entire world, and that's what makes me so, sad.
00:52:28
I California, there's so much promise here and it just seems
00:52:32
like we continually step on our own feet.
00:52:34
So we could have a lot of. We could be exporting energy to
00:52:40
other states and making a ton of money off of exporting energy to
00:52:43
other states. We could be the West Coast Hub
00:52:45
of all energy, where all the western states get all their
00:52:49
energy from? So Which is why I wear this
00:52:52
shirt. Stop brownout support nuclear.
00:52:55
We could have nuclear power plants that would power,
00:52:58
California and parts of the Southwest and western state.
00:53:01
So I'm determined to change your mind on Prop 27.
00:53:06
I sure I love to hear the argument but don't we have
00:53:09
enough money in the general fund?
00:53:10
They don't do anything with that money?
00:53:12
Yeah I mean there's never enough.
00:53:14
It's always the we always need more.
00:53:16
That's always the argument is what we need more.
00:53:18
We if you just we're like We're right there.
00:53:21
If we just, we just get this next one, like, prop 30, which I
00:53:25
was reading about. I'll probably have to break down
00:53:27
another episode. If we're right there, if we just
00:53:31
talked a little bit more, we just get this one more tax,
00:53:33
everything will be great. We'll hit the Utopia and never
00:53:36
answer. Profit, right.
00:53:40
Simon is trash but we nice not to have to drive to reach out to
00:53:43
place a bet on a game more maybe waste out to the homeless.
00:53:47
Yeah, probably they already spent a lot on homelessness and
00:53:53
for what. Well, yeah, and they'll in last
00:53:55
week's episode, we talked about how prop 26, basically, bash the
00:53:59
government, which the prop 26 is promoting.
00:54:03
They're going to send money to the government, but the
00:54:05
proponents of prop 26 also said that don't vote for prop.
00:54:10
Because the state has already spent billions of dollars on
00:54:12
homelessness. So what's the point anyway?
00:54:15
I'm like I don't really so you're arguing against giving
00:54:19
money to the government which your proposition would give
00:54:22
money to the government and that's your son.
00:54:23
It was really weird, but went to the train.
00:54:28
Yeah, the train that they are promising is going to be
00:54:30
finished in 10 years. Do you know anything about cap
00:54:33
and trade auction and help me understand?
00:54:34
I have no idea about cap and trade auction, I believe what
00:54:36
happens is. You can like Companies can sell
00:54:41
and buy like if they have extra credits under cap and trade for
00:54:46
because they're not polluting a lot, you can another company can
00:54:50
buy those credits. I think that is a generally what
00:54:53
it means, but I would have to look into it more.
00:54:55
That's how I understand it. Why do you think noodles in, put
00:55:00
any info on himself in the water cuz he thinks he's got it
00:55:03
wrapped up. So why does he have to swear?
00:55:06
They didn't put any so but I mean a chance for him to talk
00:55:09
about himself. Oh they tried to make it a
00:55:12
sanctuary City. Yeah.
00:55:17
Let's see, a couple more questions.
00:55:22
Do you do kind of making so much money with our energy exports?
00:55:27
Yeah, yeah, in California can make a lot as well.
00:55:31
Again there's a lot here in this state and there's could be a
00:55:35
lot. There could be such a a Norma
00:55:38
swell of you know, there could just be a huge upswell of
00:55:45
economic Prosperity here in the state of California.
00:55:48
If we just kind of unleashed the true potential of California.
00:55:53
Did I mention that yesterday? We actually have extra energy
00:55:55
but no way to send it where we need.
00:55:57
Well, that seems kind of dumb. We should be able to We should
00:56:02
be able to send it out. Does Dolly have a chance?
00:56:07
I mean, the polls show. I mean it's going to be an
00:56:10
uphill battle so but he's out there he's campaigning he's
00:56:13
going to come on the show and we're going to talk to him and
00:56:16
you know if anything You should always listen to these
00:56:20
candidates. Everyone's always worried about,
00:56:22
like, are they going to anything to win?
00:56:25
Why don't you just listen to their ideas?
00:56:27
You never know. You know, there's like, and
00:56:29
that's why a lot of people don't listen like third party, like
00:56:31
the libertarian party because I like, I had no chance to win.
00:56:33
So I'm not gonna listen to him. Listen to everybody.
00:56:37
That's why I think there should be debates.
00:56:38
I think there should be televised debates.
00:56:41
I think there should be at least three debates.
00:56:43
Two of them have to be before ballots.
00:56:45
Drop the third one could be like, right before.
00:56:49
And then everyone who's kind of on the fence make your last
00:56:52
pitch, but I think two should be before the ballots.
00:56:55
Drop that way. People have an idea of what they
00:57:00
want to look for and they can kind of keep interested, but the
00:57:05
fact that there's going to be one debate and it's going to be
00:57:09
on the radio is kind of not really it's on Sunday night to.
00:57:14
I think it's a Sunday night around.
00:57:16
Like Prime Time football playoffs, like baseball players
00:57:19
are going on. So people are not going to be
00:57:21
tuned into people are going to Cozy up against the radio, with
00:57:25
a blanket, and a hot cocoa listening to the radio in the
00:57:29
Like, it's not gonna be that many people listening will be
00:57:32
listening. Of course, we'll be listening,
00:57:35
it won't be televised, but we will be listening How many folks
00:57:40
are running for governor? I've only heard of Dolly, well,
00:57:45
there's nobody else running outside, I don't know, Marriott
00:57:47
is running for whatever Brian Murray, he's running for
00:57:50
congress. So right now is the only the top
00:57:54
two have passed into its the in California, we do the jungle
00:57:57
primary, which is the top to advance to the general and
00:58:00
Dolly, and, and Newsome were the top two who advanced, so I would
00:58:07
rather watch my fantasy team suffer than watch that.
00:58:09
It wasn't a lie debate. Well, that's what I do.
00:58:12
I put myself through the hardships so that you can get
00:58:17
informed. All right?
00:58:22
Any final questions like I said, tomorrow night at 8 p.m.
00:58:25
I'm going to be doing the podcast pre-show as always to
00:58:27
kind of give you guys a heads up but we're going to be doing a
00:58:31
whole hour. Hopefully an hour interview.
00:58:34
You know he's a busy guy so hopefully we can get a full hour
00:58:36
and with Brian Dolly we're going to talk about a lot of things.
00:58:39
Things and it's gonna be great. We're gonna have a lot of
00:58:42
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00:58:43
We have a lot of candidates on state candidates.
00:58:46
Remember, we like to focus on state candidates, whether state
00:58:49
legislators run for governor County Supervisors.
00:58:52
And we're going to talk about propositions.
00:58:54
There's a lot to talk about coming up in the next several
00:58:57
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00:58:58
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