Toyota moving to Texas

NEW -> Contingent Buyer Assistance Program
more wise government policy that should incentivize more to stay, no?🤦🏽‍♂️😂😂😂👎🏽🦄🌈

Commiefornia Plans “Mileage Tax” to Bleed Citizens for Even More Cash​

Lawmakers in the California State Assembly have moved to direct the Transportation Commission to prepare a study on the effects of a road charge for delivery to the legislature. A road charge is a program that imposes fees based on the number of miles each citizen drives over a specified period, and is designed to offset gas tax losses from the wider use of electric cars on California roads.

In 2014, California passed Senate Bill 1077, authorizing a “Road Usage Charge Technical Advisory Committee” to explore whether the state could replace its gas tax with a mileage-driven tax. The project was based on the assumption that “cleaner vehicles” and a potential zero-emission future would lead to dwindling gas tax revenues.

The relentless (and baseless) hostility towards the oil industry in liberal states is forcing citizens into electric vehicles, but officials have no intention of letting the public escape taxation. The concept goes well beyond the old school idea of toll roads. A charge for mileage could require intrusive surveillance technology, including “black box” GPS devices in every vehicle to track miles driven. Or, yearly inspections of odometers with arduous paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.

If they can’t tax the gas, they will tax residents simply for driving. Next comes a tax simply for breathing.

 
irvinehomeowner said:
I know we don’t align on several things but this is an interesting take.
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I mean this is one of the core reasons for deporting illegal immigrants, right? Even the labor unions, including the United Farm Workers, used to be in favor of strict immigration laws. Cesar Chavez actually sent farm workers to the border to help with immigration enforcement.

Higher wages leads to higher costs for industries that rely on cheap labor which is a negative for them and for their consumers, but on the plus side low-skilled Americans can earn a "living wage" without competing with cheap foreign labor.
 
OCtoSV said:
Oh, we’ll have $10 / gal gas here soon. All the energy development will be sucked up by datacenters and without a pipeline into the state the physics of transporting the oil and limited refining capacity make me glad I went EV a few years back.
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Unfortunatly,,,OC may end up being right…of course only for us privileged Californians..🤦🏽‍♂️👎🏽😡😡

California’s Oil Refining System Has Collapsed, and One Region Is Ground Zero​

Californians have lived with the consequences of bad energy policy for years. Those consequences are now visible in real infrastructure, real supply constraints, and real risk. And they are showing up in one place more than anywhere else.
Over the last four decades, California has steadily reduced its in-state refining footprint through a mix of regulatory pressure, capital flight, and policy uncertainty. In the early 1980s, California had more than 40 operating refineries. Today, it effectively has nine refineries producing transportation fuel at scale.
The refining reckoning has arrived. California can continue mistaking aspiration for execution, or it can start governing like a state that understands how systems work.

redstate.com

California’s Oil Refining System Has Collapsed, and One Region Is Ground Zero

California’s shrinking refinery capacity has left one region at the center of fuel risk and supply instability
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