California's High Gas Prices Are Intentional

The current sky-high gasoline prices in California is no accident. It is a systematic plan by the left wing Democrats who control the state.

A recent article by Forbes spells out what's going on in the former "Golden State".

Here's a snippet:

Higher gasoline prices are just one part of the California government’s plan to make automobile travel much more expensive as time goes on. The state has also adopted policies, like requiring cars sold in their state to have higher mileage requirements per gallon than the national requirements, that already make buying a car in California more costly than doing so in other states, and will only increase that disparity into the future. 

California’s state and city governments are also going about implementing policies that will reduce the number of automobile-traffic lanes and one-way downtown streets in order to force drivers to spend more time sitting at traffic lights and in traffic jams. These policies are designed to encourage car-pooling and the use of modes of public transportation, whose buses and incredibly costly commuter rail cars today travel mostly empty. To draw an analogy, California car drivers are the proverbial frog who is being boiled. 

One outcome of these policies intentionally designed to increase the cost of living in California has been a large number of residents fleeing that state for less expensive environs. In recent years, states like Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada and Texas have seen thousands of ex-Californians move into their cities. A 2018 study sanctioned by the Sacramento Bee found that, since 2001, “about 410,000 more people (about the population of Oakland) have left California for the Lone Star State than arrived from there.”

The trouble is, these ex-Californians are changing the political balance in these states. While they flee the liberal utopia of Commiefornia, some are bring with them their longtime voting habits to their new states. This seems awfully weird since they supported those policies of Democrats they fled, and now they are trying to implement those same polices in their new home states.

As the article states:

So, do Californians really understand that they actually voted for the policies that are causing many of them to flee their home state? Their voting patterns in their new, adopted states indicate that they really don’t.

This buttresses the argument that liberalism is a mental disorder.

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