Vance Ginn, Daily Economy, May 23, 2025.
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According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), gasoline prices are generally shaped by five components: crude oil prices, refinement costs, distribution and marketing, taxes and regulations. In California, taxes and regulatory costs alone account for more than $1.30 per gallon. This is almost twice the national average.
California has the highest gas tax in the country, at $0.678 per gallon, with no additional charges or environmental searches included. Adding cap and trade programs, low carbon fuel standards (LCFS), and boutique blends that are only needed in California, revealing why Californians pay more.
And things are getting worse. Prank research shows that state fuel supply could drop 20% by 2026 due to hostile merger processes and refinery closures due to low regeneration under California climate orders, with state fuel supplies still likely to be steady. Less refineries and rigid fuel standards mean supply supply and price increases.
May 23rd, 2025, Jeremy Hopearl, Cato of Liberty.
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President Trump, on his part, is OK with this and in two recent interviews, he says it’s fine if the little girl only has three dolls instead of 30. One of the main benefits of economic growth is the increased diversity and affordability of goods and services.
In subpoints, children may get bored of the 300th doll, but this is not a government directed. And this is the main point. Consumers are suffocating buying 30 dolls. Consumers can always choose to buy their own, but it’s great for determining how many dolls and other toys your child can have (as a parent, this is a constant blockage!).
and:
When the Barbie film was released in 2023, I wrote a light yet Stills post about the benefits of economic growth for women and young girls. Compared to when Barbie dolls were first released in 1959, women in 2023 were able to have three to four times more dolls with the same number of hours of work. Or, as Chelsea Follett said, the number of hours needed to work to buy a Barbie has decreased “from over an hour to just 12 minutes.” We hope that this advancement in products and services will be seen more widely. And certainly, we see this advancement in product total categories.
David Hebert and Marcus Witcher, Civitas Institute, May 26, 2025.
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Reagan’s commitment to free trade cannot be overstated. However, the context in which he created the Toeres Desion must also be enforced. The US economy, the automotive industry, was in a rough place in VRY when it took office in 1981. The oil crisis was so severe that it began a series of mini-recessions in 1980 and 1981.
At the same time, Japan began exporting cars to the United States, and in 1980 Japanese-made cars accounted for more than 20% of the US market. Their cars had three advantages over domestically produced cars. It was smaller in size, more fuel efficient due to weight-conscious construction, cheaper than American cars on the roads, and required significantly less repentance than American counterparts. In many ways, they are the vehicles on the top. As a result, they were supplying our cars right away. Detroit’s three big car manufacturers: Ford, General Motors and Chrysler (now Stellantis) have declined and forced to fire thousands of workers.
and:
The domestic automotive industry in the 1980s and 1990s shows this. Freed from foreign competition pressures, the methods and practices of the domestic automotive industry have been calcified centering on the idea that America would buy large, medium-sized and large models. After all, Japanese cars were still available, but they were getting harder and harder to get. In contrast, Japanese automakers continued to invest in improving Qualyt. By 1990, the quality gap between domestically built cars and Japanese cars had grown even greater (as measured at the frequency of repairs required).
In the 90s, the Big 3 was forced to close 42 of its 63 car assembly plants, which should have protected tens of thousands of unemployment in the industry. The reason for this is simple and easy to understand. Japanese cars were already good and more AF. Rather than blocking long-term increases than short-term pain, the short-term pain in car prices has led to increased long-term pain in reduced employment.
May 29, 2025, National Interest, by Benjamin Geecher.
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Climate litigation games are simple. All damage that causes all the plausible damage to “climate change” sues fossil energy producers, who are said to cause that damage, affecting what Encia has known for decades.
Claims seem simple, and the potential use of billions of dollars extracted is endless. Unfortunately, the game has fallen into a slow collapse, recently the decision of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Common Plea Judge Stephen Core to file county climate lawsuits against several energy producers. Judge Cor said: “…Bucks County cannot state the allegations that Pennsylvania can granulate relief because it cannot apply to laws claiming environmental or interstate air claims.
and two “money” paragraphs:
A lot of the response to climate lawsuits is that we have always known that fossil energy producers are creating a climate crisis, but are HIDing information from us. Serious? Let us summarize what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed in the 1990 first assessment report (page 202).
Fast forward to the latest 6th assessment report (2021-2022). IPCC can predict various harmful future effects only with incredible Confidenze and extreme emissions alone, while IPCC can predict various harmful future effects only with extreme emissions alone (Table 12.12), IPCC cannot be narrowed down yet (Table 12.12). The fossil energy industry “knows” its era August, not known at the time, and is not known to allies? Obviously not that.
Note: I noticed a spelling error in the photo. I’m still learning chatgpt.
