Newsom is a genius: California’s EV push cripples gas tax revenue

Mostly peaceful forest fires

 

I agree with your overall point but California doesn't have weather events like Texas. They don't have a weather resistant better grid.

 

We're all living in the moment.

 

link will work for everyone

Toyota’s Bet on Hybrids Looks Even Better Under Trump
Automaker faces challenges in Japan and China, but its emphasis on hybrids over full EVs keeps being vindicated

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/...3?st=87DqmU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

 

Yamaha is leaving California after nearly 50 years
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-03-11/yamaha-is-leaving-california-after-nearly-50-years

 

just follow the money,

this Calif Republican Billionaire Palmer Luckey,

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has opted to invest another billion $ in Calif for his hi-tech company, Andruil Industries.

In addition, he has just gotten approval to start his new bank in Calif, Erebor, which will cater to tech startups and wealthy individuals. Erebor will reportedly be launched with $635 million in capital, and will fill a space left by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank


most probably, Palmer Luckey's companies will acquires some of Yamaha's facilities

 

indeed, just follow the money,

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Trump 2.0's Commerce Dept is preparing to plant a major artificial intelligence outpost in San Francisco, positioning the federal government inside the country’s most influential AI cluster.


By putting the new hub in the Bay Area, Commerce is deliberately embedding itself in the region that has become shorthand for generative AI, from foundation model labs to enterprise software firms that are racing to productize them. Reporting on the plan describes the facility as a national center, not a satellite, which underscores how central the West Coast has become to Washington’s AI agenda.

The same planning documents link the California expansion to a wider federal strategy that includes exploiting natural resources in the state to increase national energy independence and bolster geopolitical leverage.

Commerce’s California office plans, which sit alongside debates between President Donald Trump and Governor Gavin Newsom over issues like gas production and an oil pipeline, show how

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The San Francisco hub is one node in that larger contest over who controls the infrastructure that advanced computing requires.

 

the ignorant fool parroting false narrative,

, what else is new ?

Costco’s EV charging move signals major shift​

These warehouses are listed by their name per Costco’s site, with the city listed afterward if the city is not the same as the warehouse name:​

1. Azusa (California)
2. Chino Hills (California)
3. Eastvale (California)
4. Los Feliz (Los Angeles, California)
5. Monterey Park (California)
6. Rancho Cordova (California)
7. San Bernardino (California)
8. San Francisco (California)
9. Simi Valley (California)
10. Torrance (California)
11. Tustin Ranch (Tustin, California)
12. Ukiah (California)
13. Westlake Village (California)
14. NE Denver (Colorado) — new location opened in July 2023
15. Clermont (Florida) — new location opened in November 2023
16. Iwilei (Honolulu, Hawaii)
17. Kauai (Lihue, Hawaii)
18. Kapolei (Hawaii)
19. Maui (Kahului, Hawaii)
20. Salt Lake City (Utah)
21. Stockbridge (McDonough, Georgia) — new location opened in November 2023
22. St. Louis Park (Minnesota)

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Interesting how @tinman nowadays is telling people to buy Tesla. Dude has no problem humiliating himself

 

the details for 2024 / 2025 have been released, contradicting the false narrative, spinned by this S___ show podcast, that tinfoil had parroted,

State records indicate gas tax revenue is at or near record highs
despite lower fuel consumption driven by SB 1’s inflation-indexed
excise rate and the slow pace of fleet turnover
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Gas-tax revenue hit a record $7.94 billion in Fiscal Year 2024-25, even as gasoline consumption has dropped by 2 billion gallons
from FY 18-19 and EV sales surged. Rising revenue is driven by the state’s steadily increasing per-gallon excise tax and
annual inflation adjustments adopted under Senate Bill 1077 in 2017.

EVs currently account for about 7% of the state’s on-road vehicles, a small share compared to the 35.9 million total registered vehicles statewide.

tinfoil has parroted the ill-informed podcast

, who never bother to read up on Calif Senate Bill 1077, passed in 2017, which has provided the basis for
state’s steadily increasing per-gallon excise tax and annual inflation adjustments