I believe there was even a planned prohibition on new gas stations in California. That could be a rumor or simply a law that will go into affect long after our “leader” is no longer governor.
But what do we do to avoid the crazy prices California we experienced compared to the rest of the country? There are stations up north still charging $7.49 a gallon for diesel!
Get your friends and families to vote different. That's the only cure.
My friends and family are not the problem. Living in a rural area, our vote does not amount to a hill of beans in California. Not to mention our representative is now located 235 miles south in the Bay Area thanks to redistricting. California has outgrown itself I think.
Teach All High School students, stay at home parents, Retirees and pretty much eveybody that these prices are due to deliberate speculation/ gambling with the consumer's minds and Deception to their logic!
In my mind it’s due to manipulation of emotions relating to the environment AND a desire to control a single energy source. Wouldn’t you love to see the paper trail of the lobbying associated with these bills? Deceptive bill names directed towards ignorant voters. The “clean California bill” could be a bill to require that recycleable paper bags be replaced with thick oil based plastic bags for just a random theoretical example. Then throw on that businesses HAVE to charge for these bags and the money does not have to go towards anything but profit in order to quiet any protest from the business sector. We see it every time we vote.
Yeah, names of initiatives and bills are used to make everything seem so complicated and " therefore that's why its expensive "
We have the resources to accomplish that very thing! As well as beneficial use of gravity and sunshine.
The NY Times rag even published a piece a few years back about how a Hummer is better than a Prius. Mainly due to the strip mining of lithium and its environmental impacts. Kind of funny since the greenpeace weirdos are usually the ones driving a Prius.
Also they spread out the grid which uses more materials and costs associated with maintenance. To build and maintain windmills roads have to be built to reach them which also need maintained. They are nothing but a scam. If this country really wanted to solve its energy issues we would build a bunch of small nuclear power plants.
I agree, but in my mind (personal) solar is essential in many areas because it provides stability for energy prices.
that's OK By Me 
There is no 100% clean way to make energy, and all methods have varying environmental impacts. But solar and wind are significantly cleaner than oil and coal, and otherwise have lower environmental impacts, even accounting for their life cycles. The nice thing about solar/wind/battery is that a lot of it is recyclable: the copper, silicon, lithium, etc all have high recyclability. When you burn oil and coal, it's gone forever, leaving behind a lot of nasties that have to be dealt with. Besides that, fossil fuels are dead-ends; they have an eventual expiration date, and the later we wait to deal with that the more expensive it will get.
This is the worst-case scenario in a country like China, where coal is the dominant fuel for making the electricity that powers the car. In the US, the break-even point is around 14,000 miles.
Most states require power companies to buy back excess power at the full retail rate. I think this is misguided, they should only pay the wholesale rate. The difference between wholesale and retail is the money used to pay for the infrastructure.
Some power companies get to have their cake and eat it too. They charge a daily fee to cover infrastructure and a per KW charge. Even then the KW charge is 10x the gen cost obvious from the disparity in residential rate v big user rate. Unless homes are subsidizing commercial users.
True, and that makes me rethink my position: For excess power back to the grid, credit the residential user at retail and the commercial user at wholesale.
