July 24, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (07/24) - California is stepping in to find a buyer for one of the oil refineries that is closing. Bryan Kohberger spent his first night in prison after being given 4 life sentences and what do you think his first meal was? Mayor Bass signed two executive orders to help expedite the permit process in Pacific Palisades.
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Why are you shaking your head?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Because I've got things in front of me that I
just I can't believe. And when I really get like
exasperated and I start shaking my head, I look like
I'm having some kind of seizure. Yeah, yeah, some spasm.
It almost always has Gavin Newsom's name in it, almost always.
So this broke at tail end of the show yesterday,
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which we just had basically a headline, but I got
a lot of details. Now, we have been telling you,
and we try really hard not to exaggerate and overhype things,
but we told you that there was a real danger
that within the next year and a half or so
you would be paying eight dollars a gallon for gas,
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and in fact, there was a chance down the road
you'd be paying ten dollars a gallon for gas and
it would be a three step process. We're about four
fifty now. A few weeks ago we were at five,
but there's a worldwide lull and oil prices, so we're
at four to fifty. Uh. The California Air Resources Board
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has a new fuel standard that's going to jack up
the price about sixty five sets. So now we're up
over five bucks a gallon. And then within within the
next nine months, two major oil refineries are going to
shut down. Now we don't have that many we've got
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used to have in the forties. Now we have less
than ten. And once they close these two, we might
have depends how you count the refineries, maybe eight, maybe six,
somewhere in that range. Some of the refineries are tiny,
but as far as main refineries, it's like six to
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eight and the other only other refineries closed because of
the California government's abuse of the oil industry, massive regulations,
massive amount of taxes, and they can't survive. They can't
make money. Now everywhere else in the country, of the
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other forty nine states and throughout most of the world,
the oil companies are running the refineries really well, they're
not closing anything. In California, a lot of them have
closed and a few more are closing. And now we're
at a tipping point. There's two or that are going
to be shutting down. One is here in Los Angeles area,
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in Wilmington, it's it's seventy six refinery, Phillips Phillips refinery. Yeah.
And then the one up in Benetia is run by Valero.
Benetea is up in the Bay area. Well, that one
is going to close by April, and it's run by Valero.
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And now Newsome is panicking, and that is not an overstatement.
He is panicking, and he's trying to make a deal
with any other company in the world who would swoop
in and buy the Benetia refinery before it's shut down. Now,
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his policies, his extremely restrictive, insane climate policies, and his
extremely insane oil industry taxes. Some of the taxes are
laid on the industry while they while they refine the oil.
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A lot of them are laid on us at the pump,
but we pay all of it. And it got so
crazy that you could buy gas for two seventy a gallon.
In many states, average is about I don't know, three
point fifteen these days across the country, but we're at
four point fifty. Huge gap. Nobody's even close to us.
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It's entirely Gavin Newsom and the California legislature entirely. Michaelmche
from US has pointed this out over and over again.
He studies this stuff. We're having him on the show
in the three o'clock hour, so that's the backdrop for this.
To get you up to speed. Now, here's a story
from Reuters. California government officials are trying to find a
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buyer for Valero's Benicia refinery. Three sources familiar with the
matter said an unusual effort as the clock ticks down
on the company's closure of the facility. This rare attempt
by a state government to broker the sale of a
privately owned infrastructure reflects a growing concern over protecting fuel supplies,
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where California's twenty eight million driverers or drivers already pay
among the highest prices for gasoline in the country. They
have been pushing this green nonsense, this electric car nonsense,
for so long they completely lost touch with reality that
most of the state still drives gas cars. Nearly all
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of the state drives gas cars, and nearly everybody in
the country and in the world drives gas powered cars.
Here's another story from an industry site called OilPrice dot Com.
California officials are stepping into the freight to urgently find
a buyer for the Valero refinery. A rare moved underscores
the state's growing anxiety over fuel security and price volatility.
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This has all been predicted for years. This was the plan.
This was the plan, but what happened is the electric
cars don't work the way the public wants them to.
And the only car company that was successful Tesla. They
just had an earnings report yesterday and their earnings are
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in the toilet. Their sales are in the toilet because
all these climate change people had a big hissy fit
because Musk was aligned with Trump. So now they're not
buying Teslas, they're selling Their test is they tanked the
company and that was the only company where it worked.
So there's no chance, no chance that electric cars are
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going to be widely used here in California. And Trump
got rid of the electric car mandate anyway, So the
stupid and newsom is the biggest stupid ass I've ever
seen in my life. The stupid ass destroys the oil industry,
and the electric car industry is not ready. There were
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no chargers, there were no successful cars outside of Tesla.
Tesla is really expensive and the only reason Tesla was
was even close to affordable for the rich people is
because of government subsidies. There are no electric car companies
in the United States successful on their own merits. Tesla
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Elon Musk was propped up by government subsidies, still is.
None of the other car companies are successful at this
people do not want to buy them. I don't care.
You could talk to your blue in the face and
your head falls off. Nobody's buying this electric car nonsense
in this state. It's just not how we're in the country.
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When Valero announced the closing back on June twenty eighth,
Benitia City officials were blindsided. It's one of their top
employers in that city, one of the major taxpayers. Venetia
receives roughly forty percent of its tax money in the
general fund from refinery connected revenues. Vice may Terry Scott
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says it was a complete surprise. It employs five hundred people,
supplies fuel to all the major Bay Area terminals, and
if no buyer is found, they could start dismantling the thing.
So let alone shutting it off, actually tearing it apart
in about a year and a half. Oh and I
love this line in the story. While California has long
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pushed for an energy transition, state officials are now grappling
with the consequences of fossil fuel phase outs. Yeah, if
you're going to have a transition, you have to have
something to transition to. But dumb ass Newsome, he didn't
have a place to transition to. Nobody wanted the electric cars.
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Normal people do not have hours and hours to watch
a car charge. And they didn't have charging stations. Oh
and they didn't have an electricity grid. Forgot that. Even
if they had the charging stations, there was no electricity
grid if everybody plugged their or a car, and at
the same time, we'd got massive blackouts. So now Newsom
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is scrambling around trying to find and they're looking at
any company. They're looking at overseas. But who's going to
come in here to lose money? Why would you do that?
That's the thing Valero and Phillips are losing a lot
of money. That's why they're closing. This is what I'm saying.
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What was he selling for the last couple of years. Oh, oh,
all the companies are gouging, gouging. He had a special session, right,
he wanted special legislation. He wanted special tax on price
gouging oil companies. He was lying the entire time. He
was lying. He was lying, He was lying. And he's stupid,
nothing worse than a stupid liar boy. And you put
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him in charge of California and forty million people. Oh
and what does he say? It's the fourth highest economy,
the fourth biggest economy in the world. Yeah, all heavily
loaded among Google and Neta and used to be Tesla
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and Apple. All, all the GDP in this state is
heavily weighted towards the tech companies. Everybody's there is making
many hundred thousands of dollars. Even if you're a mid
range engineer, you're making four hundred thousand dollars. Meantime, the
rest of the state, highest poverty rate, highest homeless rate,
most people on welfare, most people on medicaid. I could
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go on income inequality this place is the world leader
in income inequality, and that's why we he brags about, Oh,
it's the fourth largest economy in the world. What's total nonsense.
It's a distraction. It's look over there. The economy's crap here.
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We've got the highest unemployment rate in the country. We
got the we're number one in U haul move outs,
we're number fifty in U haul move ins. And now
this dumbash And I'm going to read you a letter
because he wrote a letter UH to uh the vice
chair of the California Energy Commission, a guy named Siva Gunda,
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begging mister Gunda to do something to save this Valerra
refinery up in Benetia. We'll tell you about it and
we come back.
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Speaker 1 (11:53):
We continue here. I am six forty more stimulating talk
radio John Cobelt's show, and and in the first segment,
I was telling you about how Gavin Newsom is now
in a state of panic because there's two major refineries closing.
And this is I have seen estimates that this is
seventeen to twenty one percent of the gasoline production in
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this state is going to disappear within the next year.
You take out twenty percent of the gas. They're expecting
the price to go up to about eight dollars a gallon.
And this has been warned for months, and actually for
years and years. Anybody in the industry said, if you
keep abusing the oil companies either stupid useless climate regulations
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and all these excessive, abusive taxes, you're going to drive
the oil companies out. They wanted to. And that wasn't
just an accusation. Everybody was in agreement. Newsom thought the
oil companies should be driven out of the state. So
did all these fanatical a holes in the legislature, all
Democrats one hundred percent Democrats, all right, they have super
majority in the Assembly, in the Senate seventy percent plus.
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And so they wanted the oil company, the whole oil
industry to die. Okay, it's dying, it's dying. You're happy now,
Oh look at this, you're panicking now, because I bet
you they did some market research, some polling, maybe some
focus groups. How do you feel about eight dollar a
gallon gas? I bet you most of the public said,
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are you out of your freaking mind? Eight dollar gas? Really,
and whose head are they gonna want. They're gonna want
new Somes, and they should get his head because this
stupid idea came out of that empty head.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
So he needs to buy the refinery and that will
be what can you imagine what a wonderful platform that
would be when he runs for president. I saved the
day I bought the refinery.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
So gas was not eight dollars a.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Gallon, new some oil. There you go, new some oil
and gas, and his head will be the logo. So
you're gonna pull up to a newso gas station and
he'd be like, remember the old look like the dinosaur
on the Sinclair stations. Outstead of the dinosaur, it'll be Newsome.
Does he put the gas in his hair? Well? Certainly
the oil all right. So here's the letter he's written
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to the Vice chair of the California Energy Commission, Siva Gunda. Here,
Vice Chair Gunda, thank you for your leadership and protecting
consumers and protecting consumers four fifty a gallon and ensuring
that California has a safe, affordable, and reliable supply of
transportation fuels during our energy transition over the next two decades.
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You see, even when he's panicking and begging companies to
come and bail him out. He's still carrying on about
our energy transition. I write, I direct you to redouble
the state's efforts to work closely with refiners. Well, you
have to get rid of the regulations, and you have
to get rid of the taxes. We even work closely
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with the refiners and do what they can't make money.
They're getting out of business, which is what you wanted.
You just were counting on the electric car industry, and
I guess the federal government to build you an electrical
grid and charging a charging station network, and they didn't.
Joe Biden failed at that. They threw billions of dollars
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into a charging station network, and hardly any charging stations
were built. So Biden failed. There was never a plan
for an electricity grid. And the car makers can't sell
they this crap. I'm directing you to reinforce the state's openness,
get this to a collaborative relationship and our firm belief
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that Californians can be protected from price spikes. You created
the price spikes. We have to be protected from you.
He always makes it sound like they're these mysterious alien
forces that are surging the price of oil. No, it's you.
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It's you. It's one hundred percent you. He is the
guy who staffed the California Air Resources Board. I think
twelve I think eleven out of the twelve voting members
are people he appointed. Something like that. As you know,
Californians have experienced rapid fluctuations in retail gasoline prices. That
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two often mean abrupt increases. Well, here and here's another
one that's coming. I told you there's like three steps. Right,
you got the low carbon fuel tax coming that's sixty
five cents. Then you had these two refineries closing. That's
going to take us to eight dollars. Remember I said
maybe ten, final two dollars. The major pipeline to bring
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gasoline through California, they're gonna have to shut it down
because if these two refineries close, there's not enough oil,
there's not enough pressure in the pipeline to keep it going.
They're gonna have to close it down. And everything has
This is what's really nuts. Their cover story was always
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climate change. But all this oil has to be produced
in places like Saudi Arabia then tanked over to a
country such as South Korea, where they're gonna refine the
oil into gas there and then send the tank over
across the Pacific here. Well, these countries do not have
anywhere near the environmental rules we do, and all that
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transportation across the oceans is going to produce a hell
of a lot of emissions into the atmosphere, so they're
not helping the atmosphere at all. But I mean, it's
just stupid, It's just it's and it's destructive, absolutely destructive.
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California will continue to lead the way in this transition. Well,
nobody's following price of gas like a back case. It's
like two dollars and seventy cents. Why would they follow
you in the transition. They don't want your eight dollar gas.
They're happy at two seventy. God, where was I? No?
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I was in Colorado a few weeks ago. I put
in ten gallons of gas and it was like twenty
seven dollars. It was like nine point six gallons to
be exact, and it was twenty seven dollars and twenty
seven cents. I took a picture of it. Imagine that.
You imagine putting in a half a tank of gas
in his twenty seven bucks Well in most of the
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states in the Union, that's what happens. And here what
it's gonna be eight dollars a gallon next year? Wow,
you got a twenty gallon tag. That's one hundred and
sixty dollars. One hundred and sixty dollars. And now suddenly
he's trying to find a buyer for the Valera refinery.
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Why what company is going to buy it? To incur
those losses, to put up with those excessive regulations and
all the abuse of taxes. Go ahead, tell me who's
going to do this? What a blockhead, an absolute blockhead,
Gavenue Summits. But go ahead, vote for him, make him president.
That'd be great.
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that'd be a good idea, So let it rip. Let
us have it, and we'll be airing all those moistline
comments tomorrow in the three o'clock hour twice. In a moment,
I want to tell you about Brian Coberger's first meal.
He's been sent to a maximum security prison.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Don't tell me it's a vegan, tell you just a moment.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
But I found one more little bit about Gavin Newsom
is now begging any oil company in the world to
buy the Valero refinery in Benetia, which is going to
close next spring, and it may trigger eight dollars a
gallon gas. There's two refineries closing, one in Wilmington here
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and one in Benetia. And now the blockhead woke up
and realized, uh oh, I'm running for president next year
and the gas prices are going to shoot to eight
bucks a gallon or hire the Daily did some research.
You know Andy Walls. He's the president of Chevron, and
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some months ago he described California as a tough place
to do business. Chevron moved its headquarters out of the
States last year, and he specifically identified their climate change
rules and the gas powered car ban that made Chevron decide,
you know what, We've just got to move our corporate
headquarters out of here. And Tom Pile, the president of
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the American Energy Alliance, here's what he said. For well
over two decades now, politicians that Gavin Newsom have hammered
California's conventional energy producers large and small with excessive taxes, regulations,
threats of profit taking. Many companies have already moved out
of the state, along with hundreds of thousands of residents
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as the result of these and other harmful policies, a
cap on profit margins. It made conventional energy in Espen's uneconomic.
These types of policies of outsourced jobs to other states
and have increased California's reliance and oil and electricity imports,
all with little or no environmental benefit. And that really
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sums it up. He drove the price of gas and
the price of electricity sky high. He cost thousands and
thousands of people their jobs as the company's closed refineries,
moved their headquarters out of the state, and it had
zero benefit on the economy. People have rejected electric cars.
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I mean they write in the Daily Caller that Newsom
and the Attorney General Rob Bonta kept ripping the fossil
fuel industry, characterizing it as a malignant force in society
and a collusive industry committed to misleading consumers. They are destructive,
they are stupid. But three o'clock we're gonna have Michael
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mache On from USC professor talk about this because he
first alerted us that these huge price increases were coming.
Now under Brian Coburger, he's gone to the maximum security prison.
He's sentenced to life. And there are two menus if
you are hungry at this particular prison, it's said, and
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and uh, there's one for regular people. You could have
a hot dog, salad and pie. And then there's the
vegan menus.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Oh are you serious?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I'm serious? And guess what. Brian Coburger is a vegan.
Now I have I have maintained. What is that article
that vegans are looking for power? And yeah, that's right, Yeah,
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I remember we had that vegan cult, Zizian I think
it's a few weeks ago. Yeah, the vegan cult that
that's like killing people and committing weird sex crimes. Well,
Coburger is a vegan and here was his dinner last night.
And isn't this yummy vegan barley casserole?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Oh that actually sounds kind of good. I would do that.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
If you go off on a spring. Please vegan barley
cooked in a prison?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Well yeah, anything cooked in a prison would be disgusting.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Baked beans and canned fruit. Okay, he's gonna go and
kill more people after that. You know, you don't think
you don't think belie vegans collectively might be a little off. No, No,
this this prison is called I M S. I. I
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don't know what it's. Uh, it's it's it's the only
max security prison in Idaho because there are that many
people there.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Shocked that they actually have vegan menu.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Well, because a lot of the prisoners are vegan. What
is that?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Okay, look, I'm just going to say, John, if.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I committed murder, which I would never do, but you expect, No,
I wouldn't expect a vegan menu.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I just wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
But at that.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Point, maybe it's some Supreme Court ruling. Yeah, that's your
You know, they usually have to respect to like religious.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, that's that's that's that's true.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And veganism is very very much like a religion. No,
it's not, and there's no reason to upset these guys.
Most of these guys have already killed a lot of people.
We have them imprisoned. Let's let's not further aggravate them
with non vegan food. He according to this, Well, I
am s size the name of the prison. It's one
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of the fifteen worst prisons in America. It stands for
Idaho Maxic Maximum Security Institution, Idaho Maximum Security Institution. I
don't know how many people are in there. Idaho's pretty
small state and population. Uh. The prison has been plagued
by claims of feces, smeared cages. See what a vegan
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diet makes you do?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I didn't think there were a lot of vegans in Idaho.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Well, it holds four hundred and two people, but there
must be a disproportionate amount of violent felons who are
vegan for them to have their own menu.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Well, or do you think people just go vegan because
the prison food just so?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah, they don't want to eat the Yeah, I mean
that's a good point. Actually, that's probably what it is.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
They were serving hot dogs. Hot dogs are better.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Than hot dogs are disgusting.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Oh yeah, Barley cash Roll is tasty. Yeah, and healthy.
It's important to being healthy. That is true sentence life
in prison.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah, but he's not. He's not getting the death penalty.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
So last thing I want to be as healthy? Uh feces,
smeared cages, brutally violent guards and rioting inmates. Oh my god,
what they're going to do to him? He killed four
young four young women. When the prisoners, you know, as
everybody knows as a code and we harm women and children,
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They're expecting that he's going to be locked up in
a type of solitary confinement twenty three hours a day
in his cell. And but I'm so pissed. He's getting
an iPad.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
He's getting an iPad.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
He's getting an okay, sorry, why would he get an iPad.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
He's going to be able to listen to music and
read and uh, I think watch movies on his iPad.
He should have his head cut off, and instead he's
going to sit and enjoy things.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I'm speechless, truly, am.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
That's extremely rare.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Is total eclipse of the sun here.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I mean I wanted to say what I really wanted
to say.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I know there's something you wanted to see your facial expressions.
Let it out.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
No, you're going to be surprised because it's not juicy.
And I know you you want me to say the
juicy stuff. But I know you're going to bring up
the Menenda's brothers. But what I was going to say
is this guy's never going to get out, so why
should he get any kind of special treatment, any anything.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
But then you're going to say, well, I never thought
the Menenda's brothers.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Oh well that's California law though, and Idaho they're not.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Going to let him out, Okay, so he's there forever.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, he's there forever.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
He's not going to be.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Reformed, doesn't need to know what's going on in the world,
he doesn't. Why No, but what he did he killed
four college students.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
He should be beaten bloody every day. That that would
be my sentence. If you're not going to kill him,
torture that might happen. Uh when when we come back. Oh,
Karen bass has has a pair of executive orders on
the Palisades.
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I don't want to have to repeat this tomorrow now.
Right after two o'clock news with Debra. La Times has
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done an investigation, and you know, the Palisades fire has
gotten much of the attention, but Altadena, which was La
County territory, La County Fire Department territory, the western sections
of Altadena burned and nobody showed up to put out
that fire. It turns out the fire trucks never went
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there for hours and hours, and that's where there was
a lot of deaths and people were sleeping. No warnings
were sent out, and now it turns out that nobody
sent fire trucks there for most of the night. Now,
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I know that sounds hard to believe, and again this
is some kind of weird hype or no the lay Times.
The only thing good the Ally Times is doing these
days is doing these fire investigations. Other than that, they're
might as well lining for your bird cage. But I'll
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explain to you what went wrong here, And nobody's denying this.
They really screwed up. And this story flew under the
radar for too long, So that's coming up in a
few minutes. On the Palisades fire, Karen Bass announced two
executive orders, again claiming that she's streamlining the permit process.
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The first order aligns with a Newsome order. The California
Environmental Quality Act has been suspended at the state level.
The California Coastal Act has also been suspended, so people
can build their houses without being encumbered by that legislation
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and those organizations. And she keeps going while her recovery
is on track to be the fastest in modern California history.
She's so full of crap. It's the federal government, the
Army Corps of Engineers that cleared the debris, and the
top level of soil really fast. Bass has done nothing.
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She's just so I mean, she's a pathological liar like Newsom.
The secondly, well, here, specifically, the order waves review requirements
for single family home projects in the coastal zone as
long as it goes along with the existing zoning laws,
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Coastal Act Review, Environmental Quality Review. Get people, just build
a house without all your stupid reviews which take months,
bunch of useless bureaucrat heads. The second order, they're starting
a pilot program if they're going to have a set
of pre approved standard plans for single family homes. So
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if you're willing to build a home off the shelf
that's already approved, then that'll be export guided, pre approved
code compliant designs. And if you want to build a
home without a whole lot of rigmarole, they'll have these
plans sitting on a shelf for you. They are calling
on architects and building professionals to submit their designs for
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these pre approved plans. So they're asking, if you're an
architect or involved in the building construction, send in your ideas.
If they approve them, then people will be able to
I guess just to maybe access them online or walk
into office and say I want Plan C, I want
Plan D. And more than eighty five percent of the
residential properties have been cleared of debris. Again, that is
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largely to the credit of the Army Corps of Engineers.
Certainly nobody in city hall, nobody in county government, and
nobody at the state level. But bast and Newsom are
happy to take credit for what the Trump administration has done.
All right, we come back La Times investigation. This headline
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sums it all up. As West Altadena burned La County,
fire trucks stayed elsewhere. Why why would they be elsewhere?
And this went on all night long and lots of
people died and lots of homes were lost. And it's
you read the details. I only can give you a
little bit of it because of time purposes, but it's
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pretty lengthy and it's worth looking up. Deborah Mark is
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Why are you shaking your head?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Because I've got things in front of me that I
just I can't believe. And when I really get like
exasperated and I start shaking my head, I look like
I'm having some kind of seizure. Yeah, yeah, some spasm.
It almost always has Gavin Newsom's name in it, almost always.
So this broke at tail end of the show yesterday,
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which we just had basically a headline, but I got
a lot of details. Now, we have been telling you,
and we try really hard not to exaggerate and overhype things,
but we told you that there was a real danger
that within the next year and a half or so
you would be paying eight dollars a gallon for gas,
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and in fact, there was a chance down the road
you'd be paying ten dollars a gallon for gas and
it would be a three step process. We're about four
fifty now. A few weeks ago we were at five,
but there's a worldwide lull and oil prices, so we're
at four to fifty. Uh. The California Air Resources Board
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has a new fuel standard that's going to jack up
the price about sixty five sets. So now we're up
over five bucks a gallon. And then within within the
next nine months, two major oil refineries are going to
shut down. Now we don't have that many we've got
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used to have in the forties. Now we have less
than ten. And once they close these two, we might
have depends how you count the refineries, maybe eight, maybe six,
somewhere in that range. Some of the refineries are tiny,
but as far as main refineries, it's like six to
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eight and the other only other refineries closed because of
the California government's abuse of the oil industry, massive regulations,
massive amount of taxes, and they can't survive. They can't
make money. Now everywhere else in the country, of the
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other forty nine states and throughout most of the world,
the oil companies are running the refineries really well, they're
not closing anything. In California, a lot of them have
closed and a few more are closing. And now we're
at a tipping point. There's two or that are going
to be shutting down. One is here in Los Angeles area,
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in Wilmington, it's it's seventy six refinery, Phillips Phillips refinery. Yeah.
And then the one up in Benetia is run by Valero.
Benetea is up in the Bay area. Well, that one
is going to close by April, and it's run by Valero.
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And now Newsome is panicking, and that is not an overstatement.
He is panicking, and he's trying to make a deal
with any other company in the world who would swoop
in and buy the Benetia refinery before it's shut down. Now,
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his policies, his extremely restrictive, insane climate policies, and his
extremely insane oil industry taxes. Some of the taxes are
laid on the industry while they while they refine the oil.
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A lot of them are laid on us at the pump,
but we pay all of it. And it got so
crazy that you could buy gas for two seventy a gallon.
In many states, average is about I don't know, three
point fifteen these days across the country, but we're at
four point fifty. Huge gap. Nobody's even close to us.
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It's entirely Gavin Newsom and the California legislature entirely. Michaelmche
from US has pointed this out over and over again.
He studies this stuff. We're having him on the show
in the three o'clock hour, so that's the backdrop for this.
To get you up to speed. Now, here's a story
from Reuters. California government officials are trying to find a
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buyer for Valero's Benicia refinery. Three sources familiar with the
matter said an unusual effort as the clock ticks down
on the company's closure of the facility. This rare attempt
by a state government to broker the sale of a
privately owned infrastructure reflects a growing concern over protecting fuel supplies,
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where California's twenty eight million driverers or drivers already pay
among the highest prices for gasoline in the country. They
have been pushing this green nonsense, this electric car nonsense,
for so long they completely lost touch with reality that
most of the state still drives gas cars. Nearly all
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of the state drives gas cars, and nearly everybody in
the country and in the world drives gas powered cars.
Here's another story from an industry site called OilPrice dot Com.
California officials are stepping into the freight to urgently find
a buyer for the Valero refinery. A rare moved underscores
the state's growing anxiety over fuel security and price volatility.
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This has all been predicted for years. This was the plan.
This was the plan, but what happened is the electric
cars don't work the way the public wants them to.
And the only car company that was successful Tesla. They
just had an earnings report yesterday and their earnings are
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in the toilet. Their sales are in the toilet because
all these climate change people had a big hissy fit
because Musk was aligned with Trump. So now they're not
buying Teslas, they're selling Their test is they tanked the
company and that was the only company where it worked.
So there's no chance, no chance that electric cars are
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going to be widely used here in California. And Trump
got rid of the electric car mandate anyway, So the
stupid and newsom is the biggest stupid ass I've ever
seen in my life. The stupid ass destroys the oil industry,
and the electric car industry is not ready. There were
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no chargers, there were no successful cars outside of Tesla.
Tesla is really expensive and the only reason Tesla was
was even close to affordable for the rich people is
because of government subsidies. There are no electric car companies
in the United States successful on their own merits. Tesla
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Elon Musk was propped up by government subsidies, still is.
None of the other car companies are successful at this
people do not want to buy them. I don't care.
You could talk to your blue in the face and
your head falls off. Nobody's buying this electric car nonsense
in this state. It's just not how we're in the country.
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When Valero announced the closing back on June twenty eighth,
Benitia City officials were blindsided. It's one of their top
employers in that city, one of the major taxpayers. Venetia
receives roughly forty percent of its tax money in the
general fund from refinery connected revenues. Vice may Terry Scott
(08:18):
says it was a complete surprise. It employs five hundred people,
supplies fuel to all the major Bay Area terminals, and
if no buyer is found, they could start dismantling the thing.
So let alone shutting it off, actually tearing it apart
in about a year and a half. Oh and I
love this line in the story. While California has long
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pushed for an energy transition, state officials are now grappling
with the consequences of fossil fuel phase outs. Yeah, if
you're going to have a transition, you have to have
something to transition to. But dumb ass Newsome, he didn't
have a place to transition to. Nobody wanted the electric cars.
(09:07):
Normal people do not have hours and hours to watch
a car charge. And they didn't have charging stations. Oh
and they didn't have an electricity grid. Forgot that. Even
if they had the charging stations, there was no electricity
grid if everybody plugged their or a car, and at
the same time, we'd got massive blackouts. So now Newsom
(09:30):
is scrambling around trying to find and they're looking at
any company. They're looking at overseas. But who's going to
come in here to lose money? Why would you do that?
That's the thing Valero and Phillips are losing a lot
of money. That's why they're closing. This is what I'm saying.
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What was he selling for the last couple of years. Oh, oh,
all the companies are gouging, gouging. He had a special session, right,
he wanted special legislation. He wanted special tax on price
gouging oil companies. He was lying the entire time. He
was lying. He was lying, He was lying. And he's stupid,
nothing worse than a stupid liar boy. And you put
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him in charge of California and forty million people. Oh
and what does he say? It's the fourth highest economy,
the fourth biggest economy in the world. Yeah, all heavily
loaded among Google and Neta and used to be Tesla
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and Apple. All, all the GDP in this state is
heavily weighted towards the tech companies. Everybody's there is making
many hundred thousands of dollars. Even if you're a mid
range engineer, you're making four hundred thousand dollars. Meantime, the
rest of the state, highest poverty rate, highest homeless rate,
most people on welfare, most people on medicaid. I could
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go on income inequality this place is the world leader
in income inequality, and that's why we he brags about, Oh,
it's the fourth largest economy in the world. What's total nonsense.
It's a distraction. It's look over there. The economy's crap here.
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We've got the highest unemployment rate in the country. We
got the we're number one in U haul move outs,
we're number fifty in U haul move ins. And now
this dumbash And I'm going to read you a letter
because he wrote a letter UH to uh the vice
chair of the California Energy Commission, a guy named Siva Gunda,
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begging mister Gunda to do something to save this Valerra
refinery up in Benetia. We'll tell you about it and
we come back.
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
We continue here. I am six forty more stimulating talk
radio John Cobelt's show, and and in the first segment,
I was telling you about how Gavin Newsom is now
in a state of panic because there's two major refineries closing.
And this is I have seen estimates that this is
seventeen to twenty one percent of the gasoline production in
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this state is going to disappear within the next year.
You take out twenty percent of the gas. They're expecting
the price to go up to about eight dollars a gallon.
And this has been warned for months, and actually for
years and years. Anybody in the industry said, if you
keep abusing the oil companies either stupid useless climate regulations
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and all these excessive, abusive taxes, you're going to drive
the oil companies out. They wanted to. And that wasn't
just an accusation. Everybody was in agreement. Newsom thought the
oil companies should be driven out of the state. So
did all these fanatical a holes in the legislature, all
Democrats one hundred percent Democrats, all right, they have super
majority in the Assembly, in the Senate seventy percent plus.
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And so they wanted the oil company, the whole oil
industry to die. Okay, it's dying, it's dying. You're happy now,
Oh look at this, you're panicking now, because I bet
you they did some market research, some polling, maybe some
focus groups. How do you feel about eight dollar a
gallon gas? I bet you most of the public said,
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are you out of your freaking mind? Eight dollar gas? Really,
and whose head are they gonna want. They're gonna want
new Somes, and they should get his head because this
stupid idea came out of that empty head.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
So he needs to buy the refinery and that will
be what can you imagine what a wonderful platform that
would be when he runs for president. I saved the
day I bought the refinery.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
So gas was not eight dollars a.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Gallon, new some oil. There you go, new some oil
and gas, and his head will be the logo. So
you're gonna pull up to a newso gas station and
he'd be like, remember the old look like the dinosaur
on the Sinclair stations. Outstead of the dinosaur, it'll be Newsome.
Does he put the gas in his hair? Well? Certainly
the oil all right. So here's the letter he's written
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to the Vice chair of the California Energy Commission, Siva Gunda. Here,
Vice Chair Gunda, thank you for your leadership and protecting
consumers and protecting consumers four fifty a gallon and ensuring
that California has a safe, affordable, and reliable supply of
transportation fuels during our energy transition over the next two decades.
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You see, even when he's panicking and begging companies to
come and bail him out. He's still carrying on about
our energy transition. I write, I direct you to redouble
the state's efforts to work closely with refiners. Well, you
have to get rid of the regulations, and you have
to get rid of the taxes. We even work closely
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with the refiners and do what they can't make money.
They're getting out of business, which is what you wanted.
You just were counting on the electric car industry, and
I guess the federal government to build you an electrical
grid and charging a charging station network, and they didn't.
Joe Biden failed at that. They threw billions of dollars
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into a charging station network, and hardly any charging stations
were built. So Biden failed. There was never a plan
for an electricity grid. And the car makers can't sell
they this crap. I'm directing you to reinforce the state's openness,
get this to a collaborative relationship and our firm belief
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that Californians can be protected from price spikes. You created
the price spikes. We have to be protected from you.
He always makes it sound like they're these mysterious alien
forces that are surging the price of oil. No, it's you.
(16:05):
It's you. It's one hundred percent you. He is the
guy who staffed the California Air Resources Board. I think
twelve I think eleven out of the twelve voting members
are people he appointed. Something like that. As you know,
Californians have experienced rapid fluctuations in retail gasoline prices. That
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two often mean abrupt increases. Well, here and here's another
one that's coming. I told you there's like three steps. Right,
you got the low carbon fuel tax coming that's sixty
five cents. Then you had these two refineries closing. That's
going to take us to eight dollars. Remember I said
maybe ten, final two dollars. The major pipeline to bring
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gasoline through California, they're gonna have to shut it down
because if these two refineries close, there's not enough oil,
there's not enough pressure in the pipeline to keep it going.
They're gonna have to close it down. And everything has
This is what's really nuts. Their cover story was always
(17:17):
climate change. But all this oil has to be produced
in places like Saudi Arabia then tanked over to a
country such as South Korea, where they're gonna refine the
oil into gas there and then send the tank over
across the Pacific here. Well, these countries do not have
anywhere near the environmental rules we do, and all that
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transportation across the oceans is going to produce a hell
of a lot of emissions into the atmosphere, so they're
not helping the atmosphere at all. But I mean, it's
just stupid, It's just it's and it's destructive, absolutely destructive.
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California will continue to lead the way in this transition. Well,
nobody's following price of gas like a back case. It's
like two dollars and seventy cents. Why would they follow
you in the transition. They don't want your eight dollar gas.
They're happy at two seventy. God, where was I? No?
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I was in Colorado a few weeks ago. I put
in ten gallons of gas and it was like twenty
seven dollars. It was like nine point six gallons to
be exact, and it was twenty seven dollars and twenty
seven cents. I took a picture of it. Imagine that.
You imagine putting in a half a tank of gas
in his twenty seven bucks Well in most of the
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states in the Union, that's what happens. And here what
it's gonna be eight dollars a gallon next year? Wow,
you got a twenty gallon tag. That's one hundred and
sixty dollars. One hundred and sixty dollars. And now suddenly
he's trying to find a buyer for the Valera refinery.
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Why what company is going to buy it? To incur
those losses, to put up with those excessive regulations and
all the abuse of taxes. Go ahead, tell me who's
going to do this? What a blockhead, an absolute blockhead,
Gavenue Summits. But go ahead, vote for him, make him president.
That'd be great.
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Speaker 1 (19:37):
The moistline is tomorrow. We have room on the moistline.
We have a vacant season. Yeah, the whole the whole
hotel is not full yet, the Hotel of Crazy People
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in the Heart radio app So maybe you want to
react to the eight dollars a gallon gas that's coming,
that'd be a good idea, So let it rip. Let
us have it, and we'll be airing all those moistline
comments tomorrow in the three o'clock hour twice. In a moment,
I want to tell you about Brian Coberger's first meal.
He's been sent to a maximum security prison.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Don't tell me it's a vegan, tell you just a moment.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
But I found one more little bit about Gavin Newsom
is now begging any oil company in the world to
buy the Valero refinery in Benetia, which is going to
close next spring, and it may trigger eight dollars a
gallon gas. There's two refineries closing, one in Wilmington here
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and one in Benetia. And now the blockhead woke up
and realized, uh oh, I'm running for president next year
and the gas prices are going to shoot to eight
bucks a gallon or hire the Daily did some research.
You know Andy Walls. He's the president of Chevron, and
(21:07):
some months ago he described California as a tough place
to do business. Chevron moved its headquarters out of the
States last year, and he specifically identified their climate change
rules and the gas powered car ban that made Chevron decide,
you know what, We've just got to move our corporate
headquarters out of here. And Tom Pile, the president of
(21:30):
the American Energy Alliance, here's what he said. For well
over two decades now, politicians that Gavin Newsom have hammered
California's conventional energy producers large and small with excessive taxes, regulations,
threats of profit taking. Many companies have already moved out
of the state, along with hundreds of thousands of residents
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as the result of these and other harmful policies, a
cap on profit margins. It made conventional energy in Espen's uneconomic.
These types of policies of outsourced jobs to other states
and have increased California's reliance and oil and electricity imports,
all with little or no environmental benefit. And that really
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sums it up. He drove the price of gas and
the price of electricity sky high. He cost thousands and
thousands of people their jobs as the company's closed refineries,
moved their headquarters out of the state, and it had
zero benefit on the economy. People have rejected electric cars.
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I mean they write in the Daily Caller that Newsom
and the Attorney General Rob Bonta kept ripping the fossil
fuel industry, characterizing it as a malignant force in society
and a collusive industry committed to misleading consumers. They are destructive,
they are stupid. But three o'clock we're gonna have Michael
(22:58):
mache On from USC professor talk about this because he
first alerted us that these huge price increases were coming.
Now under Brian Coburger, he's gone to the maximum security prison.
He's sentenced to life. And there are two menus if
you are hungry at this particular prison, it's said, and
(23:21):
and uh, there's one for regular people. You could have
a hot dog, salad and pie. And then there's the
vegan menus.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Oh are you serious?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I'm serious? And guess what. Brian Coburger is a vegan.
Now I have I have maintained. What is that article
that vegans are looking for power? And yeah, that's right, Yeah,
(23:57):
I remember we had that vegan cult, Zizian I think
it's a few weeks ago. Yeah, the vegan cult that
that's like killing people and committing weird sex crimes. Well,
Coburger is a vegan and here was his dinner last night.
And isn't this yummy vegan barley casserole?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Oh that actually sounds kind of good. I would do that.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
If you go off on a spring. Please vegan barley
cooked in a prison?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Well yeah, anything cooked in a prison would be disgusting.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Baked beans and canned fruit. Okay, he's gonna go and
kill more people after that. You know, you don't think
you don't think belie vegans collectively might be a little off. No, No,
this this prison is called I M S. I. I
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don't know what it's. Uh, it's it's it's the only
max security prison in Idaho because there are that many
people there.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Shocked that they actually have vegan menu.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Well, because a lot of the prisoners are vegan. What
is that?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Okay, look, I'm just going to say, John, if.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I committed murder, which I would never do, but you expect, No,
I wouldn't expect a vegan menu.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I just wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
But at that.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Point, maybe it's some Supreme Court ruling. Yeah, that's your
You know, they usually have to respect to like religious.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, that's that's that's that's true.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And veganism is very very much like a religion. No,
it's not, and there's no reason to upset these guys.
Most of these guys have already killed a lot of people.
We have them imprisoned. Let's let's not further aggravate them
with non vegan food. He according to this, Well, I
am s size the name of the prison. It's one
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of the fifteen worst prisons in America. It stands for
Idaho Maxic Maximum Security Institution, Idaho Maximum Security Institution. I
don't know how many people are in there. Idaho's pretty
small state and population. Uh. The prison has been plagued
by claims of feces, smeared cages. See what a vegan
(26:10):
diet makes you do?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I didn't think there were a lot of vegans in Idaho.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Well, it holds four hundred and two people, but there
must be a disproportionate amount of violent felons who are
vegan for them to have their own menu.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Well, or do you think people just go vegan because
the prison food just so?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah, they don't want to eat the Yeah, I mean
that's a good point. Actually, that's probably what it is.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
They were serving hot dogs. Hot dogs are better.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Than hot dogs are disgusting.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Oh yeah, Barley cash Roll is tasty. Yeah, and healthy.
It's important to being healthy. That is true sentence life
in prison.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah, but he's not. He's not getting the death penalty.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
So last thing I want to be as healthy? Uh feces,
smeared cages, brutally violent guards and rioting inmates. Oh my god,
what they're going to do to him? He killed four
young four young women. When the prisoners, you know, as
everybody knows as a code and we harm women and children,
(27:17):
They're expecting that he's going to be locked up in
a type of solitary confinement twenty three hours a day
in his cell. And but I'm so pissed. He's getting
an iPad.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
He's getting an iPad.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
He's getting an okay, sorry, why would he get an iPad.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
He's going to be able to listen to music and
read and uh, I think watch movies on his iPad.
He should have his head cut off, and instead he's
going to sit and enjoy things.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I'm speechless, truly, am.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
That's extremely rare.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Is total eclipse of the sun here.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I mean I wanted to say what I really wanted
to say.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I know there's something you wanted to see your facial expressions.
Let it out.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
No, you're going to be surprised because it's not juicy.
And I know you you want me to say the
juicy stuff. But I know you're going to bring up
the Menenda's brothers. But what I was going to say
is this guy's never going to get out, so why
should he get any kind of special treatment, any anything.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
But then you're going to say, well, I never thought
the Menenda's brothers.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Oh well that's California law though, and Idaho they're not.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Going to let him out, Okay, so he's there forever.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, he's there forever.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
He's not going to be.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Reformed, doesn't need to know what's going on in the world,
he doesn't. Why No, but what he did he killed
four college students.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
He should be beaten bloody every day. That that would
be my sentence. If you're not going to kill him,
torture that might happen. Uh when when we come back. Oh,
Karen bass has has a pair of executive orders on
the Palisades.
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Right after two o'clock news with Debra. La Times has
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done an investigation, and you know, the Palisades fire has
gotten much of the attention, but Altadena, which was La
County territory, La County Fire Department territory, the western sections
of Altadena burned and nobody showed up to put out
that fire. It turns out the fire trucks never went
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there for hours and hours, and that's where there was
a lot of deaths and people were sleeping. No warnings
were sent out, and now it turns out that nobody
sent fire trucks there for most of the night. Now,
(30:41):
I know that sounds hard to believe, and again this
is some kind of weird hype or no the lay Times.
The only thing good the Ally Times is doing these
days is doing these fire investigations. Other than that, they're
might as well lining for your bird cage. But I'll
(31:02):
explain to you what went wrong here, And nobody's denying this.
They really screwed up. And this story flew under the
radar for too long, So that's coming up in a
few minutes. On the Palisades fire, Karen Bass announced two
executive orders, again claiming that she's streamlining the permit process.
(31:25):
The first order aligns with a Newsome order. The California
Environmental Quality Act has been suspended at the state level.
The California Coastal Act has also been suspended, so people
can build their houses without being encumbered by that legislation
(31:49):
and those organizations. And she keeps going while her recovery
is on track to be the fastest in modern California history.
She's so full of crap. It's the federal government, the
Army Corps of Engineers that cleared the debris, and the
top level of soil really fast. Bass has done nothing.
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She's just so I mean, she's a pathological liar like Newsom.
The secondly, well, here, specifically, the order waves review requirements
for single family home projects in the coastal zone as
long as it goes along with the existing zoning laws,
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Coastal Act Review, Environmental Quality Review. Get people, just build
a house without all your stupid reviews which take months,
bunch of useless bureaucrat heads. The second order, they're starting
a pilot program if they're going to have a set
of pre approved standard plans for single family homes. So
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if you're willing to build a home off the shelf
that's already approved, then that'll be export guided, pre approved
code compliant designs. And if you want to build a
home without a whole lot of rigmarole, they'll have these
plans sitting on a shelf for you. They are calling
on architects and building professionals to submit their designs for
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these pre approved plans. So they're asking, if you're an
architect or involved in the building construction, send in your ideas.
If they approve them, then people will be able to
I guess just to maybe access them online or walk
into office and say I want Plan C, I want
Plan D. And more than eighty five percent of the
residential properties have been cleared of debris. Again, that is
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largely to the credit of the Army Corps of Engineers.
Certainly nobody in city hall, nobody in county government, and
nobody at the state level. But bast and Newsom are
happy to take credit for what the Trump administration has done.
All right, we come back La Times investigation. This headline
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sums it all up. As West Altadena burned La County,
fire trucks stayed elsewhere. Why why would they be elsewhere?
And this went on all night long and lots of
people died and lots of homes were lost. And it's
you read the details. I only can give you a
little bit of it because of time purposes, but it's
(34:24):
pretty lengthy and it's worth looking up. Deborah Mark is
live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've
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