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two o'clock hour because we had two professors on Michael Mishay from USC and we also had James

Rector from UC Berkeley and they were on to explain how with two refineries closing in California, in a matter of months, we are going to

possibly hit $8 a gallon in gas next year, and we're losing 21% of our gas refinery capacity,

and we have lost already 65% of our oil production capacity and Newsom is cornered

on this. There is very little he can do to change this. It's going to be very expensive

to try to get out of it. And we're going to have to import enormous amounts of oil from

foreign countries, countries that are communist,

dictatorships, or terrorist nations to get their oil and ship it all around the world

and ocean tankers. And it's going to be expensive. It's going to add a lot of unnecessary pollution to the atmosphere.

And all this, all this oil regulation and taxes has done nothing for the environment,

done nothing for the climate.

Because everything that we don't make produce here anymore is more than offset by having to import it from faraway places.

It is absolutely the stupidest policy that any state has ever engaged in.

And Newsom is now in a lot of trouble because the oil companies are getting out of the oil business here in California.

And you'll hear a lot about this over the next six months.

Let's go to state senator Tony Strickland.

Despite his incompetence, despite his pathological lying,

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