Gavin Newsom signs legislation Monday at the state Capitol aimed at preventing gas prices from spiking at the pump. Newsom and Democratic lawmakers cast the bill as a solution to high gas prices. Opponents have cast his push to address gas prices as an example of “political theatrics.”“This is politics, not policy,” said Catherine Reheis-Boyd, chief executive of the Western States Petroleum Assn. Ron DeSantis' conservative policies, which prompted a response from the petroleum group blaming Newsom for California’s highest-in-the-nation gas prices. Democrats in the Legislature were reluctant to pass Newsom’s new oil bill again this year.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 15, 2024 00:20 UTC