LA Times: ‘The high cost of California’s green energy policies’ – ‘Cost of electricity in state is now the highest in the continental U.S.’ – ‘High energy prices are a self-inflicted wound’
By Marc Morano
May 8, 2025
11:15 am
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-05-07/california-gavin-newsom-renewablesBy Joel Kotkin
Excerpt: Since the early 2000s, governors and legislators from both parties have signed onto a climate agenda in California that is making energy steadily unaffordable.
Gasoline in California, according to AAA, which tracks national gas prices daily, costs an average of about $4.78, compared with $3.16 nationally. The cost of electricity in the state is now the highest in the continental U.S., at 30.22 cents per kilowatt hour.
You might want to blame the discrepancies on greed — Big Oil practicing price gouging, as Gov. Gavin Newsom has suggested, and utilities lining their shareholders’ pockets. But at the pump and on your light and power bill, California’s high energy prices are better understood as a self-inflicted wound, traceable to the state’s quixotic green energy policy.
Electric vehicles use a CCS DC fast charger from Electrify America at a shopping mall parking lot in Torrance, California, on February 23, 2024. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
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