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Why are California gas prices sky-high?

Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 4:42 pm | Randy Thomasson

A picture is worth a thousand words, right? Here are the March 9, 2022 “heat maps” from GasBuddy.com. They show Democrat-run California has the highest gas prices in our nation, even higher than Hawaii, which imports all its oil. California today has $5 gas in most parts of the state.

Since January 2021, gasoline prices in all 50 U.S. states have doubled under Biden & Co. The price of a barrel of oil on January 1, 2021 was $52.20, and this morning (March 9, 2022) it was $122.84.

The Democrat Party’s war against oil lowers the supply of oil, which increases the price. It’s the Democrat agenda, nationally and internationally, that’s doubled what you pay at the pump. Remember, on his first day of occupying the White House, Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline to satisfy environmental wacko groups.

As for California, the Democrat Party’s multi-decade control of the California State Legislature has prevented gasoline pipelines from other states, prohibited new oil drilling, required expensive gasoline blends, and imposed the nation’s highest gas tax. So Newsom & Co. are hurting you right along with Biden & Co.

And think about this — the Democrat politicians have worked so hard to keep a stable, cheap supply of gasoline out of California, today Hawaii, which imports all their oil, is cheaper than California!

Constitutional Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher of Yuba City says California imposes “taxes and mandates that add $1.27/gallon to the cost of gas.”

Now, if these high gasoline taxes and burdensome regulations were done away with, and new drilling and at least one interstate pipeline were permitted, California could have the lowest-cost gasoline in the nation. But to achieve this, you’re going to have to change a lot of faces in Sacramento.

See my past blogs dealing with gas supply and gas prices

“Gas prices are going up at a far more rapid rate than anybody’s seen in a long time. We had gas prices very low, and yet we had more energy jobs than we’ve ever had,” said Trump, speaking at a time when the average price of gas was $2.879 per gallon. “[T]hey will be going up by $1, $2, $3, if you look at that, and it’s bigger than a tax increase to the consumer,” he said.
President Donald Trump, Fox News interview, March 16, 2021

How government-controlled health care was stopped in California

Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 9:49 am | Randy Thomasson

Pro-family, constitutional Californians are breathing a sigh of relief now that one of the worst Democrat bills of the year has been stopped.

On January 31, AB 1400 to replace private insurance with a big-government program that would have rationed medical treatment, created long waiting lists, and imposed new, high taxes was stopped on the floor of the California State Assembly.

So now, AB 1400, which was introduced in 2021, is dead for the year. Because the California State Constitution, Article IV, Section 10(c), in its first sentence, reads: “Any bill introduced during the first year of the biennium of the legislative session that has not been passed by the house of origin by January 31 of the second calendar year of the biennium may no longer be acted on by the house.”

But how was AB 1400 defeated? Especially when there are currently 56 Democrats in the 80-member Assembly (there are four vacant Democrat seats), who have a vise-grip hold that’s more than a two-thirds majority, allowing Democrats to pass any bill they want?

Because it was a perfect storm. As ultra-left-wing “resetting” Democrats pushed government-controlled health care, it seems most everyone else came against AB 1400: Doctors and hospitals and insurance companies, business associations, and taxpayer advocates strongly opposed it. And most private unions, which want to keep their high-paid health plans, sat on the sidelines, refusing to support AB 1400’s elimination of private health insurance.

These large, secular forces provided the primary lobbying. Providing secondary influence were concerned Californians (like you), who called and emailed, creating a noticeable flood of opposition. The calls and emails the last few days before the scheduled vote were “insurance,” if you will, for the direct lobbying of all the others.

A final takeaway is that even when the New Communist Democrats have a sizable majority, you can depend on new topics — like eliminating private health insurance — containing more shock value than old ones. And, in my opinion, this big “spanking” of the Assembly Democrats by ferocious direct and indirect lobbying should be remembered — and provide restraint against a new bill — for at least a year. Thank you for participating in this important, rare victory against big, new tyranny!

See more about AB 1400 (and its funding mechanism, ACA 11, which is also likely dead for the year) at the SaveCalifornia.com Legislation Center.

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?
Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

Psalm 94:16

Court finds school districts, not Newsom, decide mask policy

Monday, November 15, 2021, 10:37 am | Randy Thomasson

Hidden in an otherwise bad ruling in San Diego from an unconstitutional Democrat state judge is a useful point of light equipping you to lobby school board members who are not union prostitutes or self-centered idolaters, but who try to be honest and try to love.

Because if two school districts in Calaveras County, California have voted NO to any school “Covid vaccine” jabs (and are getting ready to ban mask mandates too), any loving or reasonable or honest school board member can do the same, now that this ruling recognizes their free will to choose.

The one sentence, with our bracketed context, found at the bottom of Page 10 of the pdf of the November 12, 2021 ruling, reads: “There simply is no language in the Guidance, however, that requires, directs, or otherwise authorizes schools to force students [who decline to wear face masks] into an independent study program.”

In other words, it’s up to school districts whether to mask children; there’s nothing in the State’s “guidance” requiring schoolchildren without masks to be sent home.

So, if you have children or grandchildren in California’s K-12 government-controlled schools, or you’re just a concerned citizen who loves others, I urge you to take, distribute, and read this one sentence at the next school board meeting. Even better, ask an attorney friend to write a letter based on this court finding and to also speak to the board members after distributing his or her letter to them at the public meeting. That would be powerful.

Of course, if you want to act now to protect your children from unscientific, unhealthy, unrelational masks, as well as invasive tests and dangerous jabs, and if you don’t want your children assaulted by sexual indoctrination and all kinds of immoral political correctness and bad peer pressure, you’ll need to get them out of the government schools ASAP. Your solutions are homeschool, micro-school, or church-school.

And here’s something else you can use at school board meetings: A new “study of studies” of cloth and paper face masks finds them of no or little use.

A trio of of medical researchers from the University of Colorado, UC San Francisco, and Harvard found there’s scant evidence over the last century demonstrating face masks block small viruses, such as influenza strains or SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). The researchers concluded:

We reviewed the mechanistic, observational, and clinical evidence relevant to the use of cloth face masks in community settings to limit the spread of respiratory infections, and in particular the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. In each area, we found existing evidence inadequate to demonstrate clear benefit (or harm).

As the Epoch Times reported November 15, 2021:

Cloth masks are of little use against COVID-19, according to a recently published analysis.

Federal health authorities and a slew of jurisdictions require or recommend wearing masks as a way to limit spread of the virus that causes COVID-19.

But a trio of researchers pored over the studies often cited by the officials and found they were poorly designed and offered scant evidence supporting mask usage.

Many of the studies are observational, opening them up to confounding variables, the researchers said in their analysis (pdf), which was published on Nov. 8 by the Cato Institute.

Of 16 randomized controlled trials comparing mask effectiveness to controls with no masks, 14 failed to find a statistically significant benefit, the researchers said. And of 16 quantitative meta-analyses, half showed weak evidence of mask effectiveness while the others were “were equivocal or critical as to whether evidence supports a public recommendation of masks,” they added.

“The biggest takeaway is that more than 100 years of attempts to prove that masks are beneficial has produced a large volume of mostly low-quality evidence that has generally failed to demonstrate their value in most settings,” Dr. Jonathan Darrow, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, told The Epoch Times in an email.

So keep fighting against these unscientific mask mandates, which are involuntary medical care, suffocating and harming defenseless children.

Deliver those who are drawn toward death,
And hold back those stumbling to the slaughter.
If you say, “Surely we did not know this,”
Does not He who weighs the hearts consider it?
He who keeps your soul, does He not know it?
And will He not render to each man according to his deeds?

Proverbs 24:11-12