If California is our energy future, be afraid, be very afraid, America
Fox News
If California is our energy future, be afraid, be very afraid, America. Because the state's outlandish green power goals spike electricity, natural gas prices.
California charges a cap-and-trade fee on energy producers. Consumers pay this fee in the form of higher energy costs. But voters are complaining of higher energy costs, so the state is about to dole out $1.3 billion in "relief" to the customers they took the money from in the first place. Chuck DeVore is a vice president with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, was elected to the California legislature, is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, and the author of the new book, "Crisis of the House Never United."
California typically has the highest gasoline prices in the contiguous United States — an artifact of three things: