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Gavin Newsom has no clue about gas and energy, and it it shows

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Californians are paying the nation’s highest gas prices this Memorial Day weekend, at $6 per gallon and above. What makes it worse is that it doesn’t have to be this way.

For some reason, California has an energy suicide pact in place, and the state seems intent on following through on that self-destructive deal.

Fortunately, people are now awake to the fact that California’s own energy policies are largely to blame for the uniquely high cost of fuel, and the political class is getting pretty nervous.

That was recently highlighted when California Chevron station owners posted signs on the pumps showing drivers exactly how Sacramento policy was the cause of much of their pain at the pump. 

Governor Gavin Newsom’s media squad, which was clearly unhappy about Chevron’s public criticism, called for a boycott of Chevron over the issue of –– wait for it –– “unbranded gasoline.”

Now it’s true that unbranded gasoline, which is basic fuel without the additives that commercial chains often include, may come from the same refineries and pipelines as name-brand gas, but that has nothing to do........

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