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Coming up in a moment, we're going to have Michael Mischay, USC professor, James Rector,

UC Berkeley professor.

And it looks like Los Angeles County wants to ban oil and gas production again.

And that's actually the city wants to do that.

And they're going to explain why that's a bad idea.

You know, it's done because we're, you know, for the good of the climate and emissions.

But they say that you'll actually worsen the emissions by not extracting the oil from the ground,

as opposed to letting it sit there and bubble up through the tar pits, for example. Let's explain

all this coming up in a minute. It's fascinating. Now, the gas price

averages, I should tell you, while gas prices are falling throughout the country, but there's still

$4.40. Here in California, $4.40 for regular. However, in Oklahoma, they're $2.35. So over two bucks less, $2.35. Florida is at $2.84. How about that?

And even high tax, left-wing states like New Jersey is $2.94. Massachusetts, 301, even New York State is only 310, but here we're at 440. And there are,

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