Should The Government Subsidize The Incoming Gas increase?

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Libs come in handy for once.

Newsome looking to give us cash for the inconvenience.

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to put money in Californians’ pockets to help them pay for the skyrocketing price of gas.

That was the main takeaway from his State of the State speech Tuesday night, which came on the heels of President Joe Biden announcing a U.S. ban on imports of Russian oil and the Golden State’s average gas price hurtling to a new record of $5.44 per gallon — a whopping 10-cent increase over the previous high set just one day before.

Details about the proposed rebate — the only new policy proposal in the governor’s 18-minute speech — were scarce Tuesday night, though Newsom administration officials said relief would likely total in the billions of dollars and be available to California drivers with cars registered in the state, including undocumented immigrants.

However, Newsom’s proposal is unlikely to eliminate conflict in the state Legislature over competing ideas to help Californians hurting at the pump.

  • Although the Democratic leaders of the state Assembly and Senate issued a statement supporting Newsom’s tax rebate plan, they reiterated that they aren’t wild about his proposal to suspend an increase to California’s gas tax set to take effect in July. (Newsom is still pursuing that proposal, a spokesperson for the governor told me.)
  • Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon: “The Legislature will put the state’s robust revenue growth to work by returning substantial tax relief to families and small businesses as fast as possible. Gas, food, and other prices are up, so our focus cannot be a small cut to the gas tax that might not get passed on to consumers.”
  • Meanwhile, Republicans want to go further and eliminate the gas tax altogether.
  • GOP Assembly Leader James Gallagher of Yuba City: “A gas tax rebate in July will do exactly nothing for drivers who are currently struggling with the highest gas prices in history, being forced to choose between driving their kids to school or putting food on the table.”
Another possible source of contention illuminated by Newsom’s State of the State speech: California’s oil and gas policies.

  • Newsom: “One thing we cannot do is repeat the mistakes of the past by embracing polluters. Drilling even more oil, which only leads to even more extreme weather, more extreme drought, more wildfire.”
  • Yet a bipartisan group of state lawmakers urged Newsom in a letter obtained by the Sacramento Bee to help “Californians to take advantage of the abundant inland natural resources available in our state that will help ensure we are not dependent on foreign energy sources.”
  • And the California Democratic Party is facing internal pushback from labor groups over phasing out oil and gas, as evidenced by last weekend’s party convention and recent legislative hearings.
 
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Pressure said:
Unlike you, many of us are parents. :pachaha:

childcare expenses dwarf Any discussion of gas prices :sas2:
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no they dont :heh: as obviously evidenced by the last two weeks' discussion

when the fukk has the equivalent outrage about gas been raised about childcare? unless thats not what you meant :dead:
 
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