Add The California Post on Google Recall the iconic scene in “The Naked Gun” with fire, explosions and rockets behind Leslie Nielsen as his character deadpans: “Nothing to see here! Please disperse!”
With a record of wreckage behind him, the governor calmly prods the crowds to look away.
In the latest example, Newsom called on X for a boycott of Chevron this Memorial Day weekend, alleging Big Oil profiteering on gas and urging motorists to buy cheaper “unbranded” gas instead.
Why would Big Oil price-gouge in just one state out of 50?
The truth is, Newsom’s climate policies have delivered gas prices in California that are 35% to 50% higher in the Golden State than in other states in the US.
And it’s not as though Chevon is the only “branded” gas.
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Newsom picked on Chevron because the company had the temerity to place signs on its pumps telling drivers just how culpable Sacramento is when it comes to inflated gas prices.
So yes: The governor’s being petty, vindictive, and counterproductive. In fact, it might be a new low for him, in terms of his years-long pushing to destroy an industry that’s vital to the state he’s supposed to lead.
He’s also happy to distract from his atrocious record on oil, gas prices, and energy affordability.
The gov’s near-religious fixation on global climate, often a pretext for slopping taxpayer-funded green pork to friends of Democrats, has been a disaster for the state.
For years and decades, California has taxed, regulated and berated the state’s once-robust oil industry, driving much of it elsewhere.
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Newsom, legislators and regulators have also heaped a range of taxes, fees and regulatory requirements onto gas prices — costs that add about $1.50 a gallon in California compared with pump prices in other states.
Meanwhile, other California energy polices, including the “cap and invest” scheme to ostensibly address global temperatures in the remote future, have also ladled costs on virtually every form of energy residents here depend on.
The result: less supply and sharply higher prices for gas, oil, heating, cooling, electricity — i.e., the basics of First World living.
The pious energy policies of Newsom & Co. also drive up prices for every object consumers buy that’s transported by gas or diesel: from groceries to furniture to clothing to computers.
Yes: Californians are suffering extra financial hardship as a direct result of Newsom’s green lunacy.
He wouldn’t want voters staring head-on at the exploding mess he made in California.
That would be very bad for his presidential prospects in 2028.
