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Newsom's State of the State: Climate Action vs. Gas Prices

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California governor Gavin Newsom gave his annual State of the State address on Tuesday 8/8/22 READ the entire address here. Many Californians follow the state’s climate policy closely. Here are the climate tidbits from the speech.

Take climate policy, for example. California has no peers. For years, we’ve set the rules and others have followed. But over time, we’ve learned we can’t solve big problems like climate change situationally, with short-term thinking. Look, no one’s naive about the moment  we’re living in, with high gas prices and the geopolitical uncertainty fueling them. In January we proposed to pause the gas tax increase. Now, it’s clear we must go further. That’s why — working with Legislative leadership — I’ll be submitting a proposal to put money back in the pockets of Californians, to address rising gas prices.

Later in the speech, Governor Newsom highlights California’s solutions and climate leadership.

Underscoring the importance of accelerating California’s leadership in clean technology, this is not just a national security and an environmental justice imperative — clean energy is this generation’s greatest economic opportunity. A perfect example — our dominance in electric vehicle sales and manufacturing. It was California’s policies that created this market. Now we have the opportunity to extend this leadership, to secure a critical component of the supply chain for batteries, by tapping one of the world’s largest lithium reserves – right here in California. Our nation-leading climate investments — $38 billion — will ensure that other innovations will surely follow. Not by re-creating the 20th century by extracting more oil, but by extracting new ideas, drilling for new talent, by running our economy on a carbon-free engine. That’s the California Way.

He almost gets it, but then the reality of gas prices and the impacts on Democratic politicians kind of takes over.  

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