Why does California have the highest gasoline taxes in the U.S.? Don’t look to the Strait of Hormuz. Look at Beijing.
Of course, energy has been expensive in California for a long time. Some of this can be attributed to spacey Californians who have spent half a century dreaming up green disasters. The 1979 movie The China Syndrome depicted the evil power company that built its nuclear plant on a fault line. It had nothing to do with China, except that in a meltdown, the reactor’s core would, so to speak, drop all the way there.
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