PRI's Focus on California
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Government Mandates Big Reason Why Californians Pay More for Gas
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Tim Anaya
March 22, 2021
As of March 17, average gas prices in California were $3.87 per gallon for regular unleaded, roughly $1 above the national average of $2.88, according to AAA. This is nearly 40 cents higher than one month prior – and about 55 cents per gallon higher than California drivers paid at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020.
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Wayne Winegarden Talks About No Way Home on the Larry Conners Show
The Larry Conners Show KTRS | Larry Conners
March 25, 2021
Wayne Winegarden, PRI’s senior director and economist joins the Larry Conners Show on KTRS St. Louis to discuss his new book No Way Home, on California’s homeless challenges and solutions cities and policymakers can take to help those in need. Winegarden is a co-author along with PRI’s Kerry Jackson, Christopher Rufo, and Joseph Tartakovsky.
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California’s Tomorrowland Of Energy Won’t Be Arriving On Time
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Kerry Jackson
March 24, 2021
Both wind and solar farms are voracious consumers of land. They take 90 to 100 times more space to produce the same amount of energy a natural gas-fired plant requires. With nearly 200 gas plants across the state, each taking up on average 20 to 25 acres, another 4,000 to 5,000 acres – roughly six to eight square miles – will have to be dedicated to energy wind and solar production just to continue providing the same amount of electricity.
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