I guess encouraging people to look into the cause of California's high gas prices backfired.
The Sacramento Bee (3/30/25) reports: "Two years after California’s Democratic leaders declared victory over big oil with a law aiming to crack down on industry profits, the state has been unable to prove companies engage in price gouging when the cost of gasoline spikes in California. 'Open your books and prove that you’re not price gouging. Otherwise, you – big oil – will pay the price, not consumers,' then-Sen. Nancy Skinner said after Newsom signed the bill she authored that created an industry watchdog division and gave the California Energy Commission authority to cap oil company profits and return funds to taxpayers. But the state hasn’t leveled any penalties on oil refining companies since the law passed and has even stopped posting the data it required."
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"By reforming DOE’s permitting rules and regulations for our National Labs, we can speed up critical infrastructure improvements and make the Energy Department a better steward of taxpayer dollars."
– Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy
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