1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: And we continue at one five in the afternoon on 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Wegg's in Culver City. 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:10,239 Speaker 2: John, everyone should set their calendars or if they have them, 4 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 2: set their tvOS for sixty minutes on Sunday, because sixty 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 2: minutes is looking into the California High Speed Rail. 6 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: Oh my jo Jo, can you imagine what they're going 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: to find. 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 2: They're going to ask the question why have so many 9 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,840 Speaker 2: other countries been able to do this fifty years ago? 10 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,879 Speaker 1: If only Andy Rooney's eyebrows were around to see this. 11 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 2: I'm sure we will have a clipboork two on Monday show. 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,919 Speaker 2: But check it out this weekend or do what I do. 13 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 2: Follow them on YouTube and they'll post it. Sixty minutes 14 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 2: investigates the California High Speed Rail. 15 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 1: I'll give you a preview. The project is Leslie Stalled. 16 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 2: It's pretty good. 17 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two. Is 18 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: telephone number one eight hundred two to two two five 19 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: two two two. What was it, Randy? Was yesterday or 20 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: earlier in the week when you reported that gasoline in Gorda, 21 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: California hit nine dollars in ninety nine cents a gallon. 22 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 2: That was yesterday. The video and the picture is going everywhere. 23 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: Now. 24 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 2: Gorda is a special situation because it's such a remote 25 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 2: gas station. They actually have to power the whole thing 26 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 2: with generators. That's why it's so expensive. But it's still 27 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 2: a sign of the times. It's never gotten that high before. 28 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 2: And what's interesting is right now that gallon of premium 29 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 2: gas is nine to ninety nine. The meter actually can't 30 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 2: go any higher because there's no room for another digit. 31 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: Well, they're going to have to get creative. 32 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 2: I mean, you're to look at a situation where gas 33 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 2: stations up and down the state of California are gonna 34 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 2: have to make all of their signs bigger. 35 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: And all of this leads to the question, why is 36 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:13,839 Speaker 1: it that gasoline is so damn expensive? 37 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 2: Well, luckily for us, one of the best investigative reporters 38 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 2: in the state wanted to find out. Here is Julie 39 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 2: Watts with CBS News investigates into why gas prices in 40 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 2: California are so damn high. 41 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 3: These new transparency laws will help us better manage gas 42 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 3: supply and track refiners profits, so Californians aren't honorable to 43 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 3: the greedy whims. 44 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: Of big oil. 45 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 2: Oh, that used to be Gavin's whole song and dance 46 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 2: every September. We need a special session because the oil 47 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 2: companies are ripping you off. 48 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: And if you follow his logic, it's Alex Jones level conspiratorial. 49 00:02:58,040 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 2: I'm sick and tired of being screwed. 50 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 4: This is just the stuff. 51 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 5: Waking up before sunrise. Serena makes the most of her 52 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 5: two hour morning supercommute with daily car episodes on TikTok 53 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 5: and we're different of a drive. 54 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 2: She's stuck in traffic, so she shoots her own TikTok 55 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 2: videos for two hours. 56 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: So that's a total of a four hour commute. Two 57 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: hours going, two hours coming correct, has a lot of 58 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 1: time in the car. 59 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm different of a drive today. 60 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,359 Speaker 5: I'm Julie. I'm a reporter from CBS. This is Jay. 61 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 5: We jagged along one morning to get her take on 62 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 5: California gas prices. Honestly, I love my dog. That job 63 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 5: happens to be two hours away from the house she 64 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 5: lives in with her parents, so let's talk gas prices. 65 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 6: There was one time I filled U about one hundred 66 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 6: dollars and I was like, I don't know what I'm 67 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 6: doing right now? 68 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 5: How much she know about the California gas debate with 69 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 5: what we know why these oil refineries are leaving in 70 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 5: what that can potentially do to the price of gas. 71 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 5: I really don't know much about it, and she's now. 72 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 2: You gotta watch the news, baby. You don't want to 73 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 2: turn into the average California voter. 74 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 5: I really don't room much about it, and she's not 75 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 5: low so CBS News. 76 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, people are busy. People have stuff going 77 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 2: on in their own lives. You may not pay attention 78 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 2: to a whole lot that's going on in local news, 79 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 2: local politics, but everybody pays attention to the gas prices, 80 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 2: not only once a week when you need to fill up, 81 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 2: just every single time you drive past the intersection. It's 82 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 2: the first thing you see. 83 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 1: Well, what was it in the last election, It was 84 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: the price of eggs that became a big issue because 85 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: people have to buy eggs on a regular basis. People 86 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: have to buy gas on a regular basis. You may 87 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 1: only rent a car once or twice a year, but 88 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: you can't go that long without filling your car up 89 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:47,559 Speaker 1: at the gas pump. 90 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 5: I really don't know much about it, and she's not 91 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 5: low so CBS News California spent six months investigating why 92 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 5: gas really costs so much more in California to break 93 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 5: it down for the millions of California drivers like Serena, 94 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 5: there's this push and pull between California policies and oil 95 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 5: companies who are like, we're still a private business. You 96 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 5: don't need you California. 97 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 2: And screw you guys. I'm going to Texas. 98 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: And we've seen that happen over and over. 99 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 5: Again, and for a long time. They've been saying that 100 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 5: in lawmakers like Deck calling their block. They're exclusive refinery 101 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 5: access and interviews with regulators, lawmakers and analysts. We're connecting 102 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 5: the ducks between Californian politics, environmental policies, and how much 103 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 5: you pay at the pump. 104 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 2: I saw it a law to stop price scouging at 105 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 2: the pump. 106 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: Oh, Gavin, he's going to try to turn himself into 107 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: the hero of this story. 108 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 5: You said, Gummer Newsoman California Democratic leadership initially blamed oil 109 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 5: companies for price gouging. 110 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 2: Price gouging, the price scouging, price scouging. 111 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 5: They called a special session which you paid for price scouched. 112 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 2: Two special sessions in fact one because they were ripping 113 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,679 Speaker 2: us off in two because they're still ripping you off. 114 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: All to indulge Gavin Newsom in his conspiracy theory. 115 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 5: They called a special session, which you paid for, price scouched, 116 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 5: to pass a law requiring oil companies open their books, 117 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 5: which you also paid for. 118 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: We couldn't prove there was gouging. Whoop, Well there you go. 119 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 2: How much did that investigation cost us? Gavin talk about 120 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 2: burying the lead? 121 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: Did you really have to call everyone up to Sacramento 122 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: on two different occasions if that's what they found. 123 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 2: I'm sick and tired of being screwed. 124 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 5: Were you able to confirm the price gouging accusations? 125 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,679 Speaker 3: The way I would put it is, we've identified certain 126 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 3: dynamics that were creating those price spikes. 127 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 5: California's natural resource that's not an answer. 128 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: No, That means no, that means Gavin Newsom's conspiracy theory 129 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:54,799 Speaker 1: is not true. 130 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 5: California's Natural Resources secretary says they found reasons for the 131 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:02,599 Speaker 5: price spikes, but not intentional price gouging. 132 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 3: Rather than assigning motive to an oil company or a policymaker. 133 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 5: It was lawmakers who were assigning the motive. So what 134 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 5: were those spikes with a regulation goes. 135 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: Back to what Gavin Newsom said. Gavin Newsom alleged deep conspiracy. 136 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: He alleged that the oil companies were all getting together 137 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 1: with one another and colluding on price to screw one state. 138 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: I think they got together on the Grassy Knoll. 139 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 7: By the way, Gavin, over and over and over again 140 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 7: in press conferences, in interviews and social media said they 141 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:39,679 Speaker 7: are ripping you off. 142 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 2: Where's dumb as we want to be? In fact, I 143 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 2: think that's where this one comes from. 144 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 5: I don't know why we're so damned sheepish. 145 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: It's so funny where if you're on the right and 146 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: you say something that turns out to be true, you're 147 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: a conspiracy theorist. Remember when they went after us when 148 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: we said that it would be a massive mistake to 149 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: shut the schools down during COVID, and then all of 150 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: a sudden you get all of these studies that come out, 151 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was a big mistake. But if you 152 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: said no, there's no reason to shut the schools down, 153 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: keep school going, oh you had a tinfoil hat on 154 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 1: your head. 155 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 5: Our babies. 156 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: But then Gavin Newsom for years, for years, sticks with 157 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: the conspiracy that this deep collusion went on within the 158 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: oil industry. Turns out not to be true, of course, duh, 159 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: and he just moves on to the next one, spikes. 160 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 5: Was it regulations? Was it price gouging? 161 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 3: Here's what I would say is, as it relates to 162 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 3: the price spikes, I wouldn't be in a position to 163 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 3: point a finger at this person or that person. 164 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 2: But we created an entire new regulatory agency to investigate 165 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 2: the price spikes, and they found nothing. 166 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 5: But lawmakers and date point the finger, and two major 167 00:08:56,679 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 5: refineries shut down, taking one hundreds of jobs. 168 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,440 Speaker 2: Six gone Venetia. I think it's done this. 169 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 1: Month, thanks Shakramento, taking hundreds. 170 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 5: Of jobs and nearly one fifth of California's refining capacity 171 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 5: with them. And so everyone's like, oh no, yeah, what 172 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,839 Speaker 5: are we gonna do? Right, scramble in now. Before we 173 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 5: examine what that means for the future of gas prices 174 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 5: in California, let's break down why California's gas is already 175 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 5: so much more expensive than other states. First, you have 176 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,559 Speaker 5: the global price of crude, which we all pay, and 177 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,239 Speaker 5: the federal tax which we all pay. Then there's distribution 178 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 5: and refining, which is more expensive in California. But here's 179 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 5: the part. We can actually quantify. California's special gas blend 180 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 5: taxon ten to fifteen cents per gallon. 181 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,439 Speaker 2: Oh, the summer blend strikes again. 182 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: They love that summer blend. 183 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 5: California's special gas blend taxon ten to fifteen cents per gallon. 184 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 5: There's another sixty three cents in state taxes and fees 185 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 5: plus thirty and. 186 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 2: That goes up every year because why not. There's another 187 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 2: sense it increases with inflation. Yet the tax itself is inflationary, 188 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 2: So explain that one. 189 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: As long as Sacramento gets more money, it makes sense 190 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: to them. 191 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 5: There's another sixty three cents in state taxes and fees 192 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 5: plus thirty seven cents for California's climate programs. 193 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 2: That's the cap and invest or, Cap and trade thirty seven. 194 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 2: When you look at that gas, if you're filling up 195 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 2: today and it's six thirty seven, thirty seven cents of 196 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 2: that is going to the high speed rail. 197 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: And isn't the estimate that that's going to balloon to 198 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: seventy cents a gallon at some point? 199 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 2: Well that's the thing. All these new regulations that now 200 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 2: the Assembly and the State Senate say they don't want 201 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 2: they voted on last year, which is why CARB needs 202 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 2: to increase the cap and trade fees. Also, when you're 203 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 2: filling up and you remember that thirty seven cents is 204 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 2: going to cap and trade, Remember that cap and trade 205 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 2: money went to give vouchers for e bikes, which is 206 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 2: why there's all those little monsters riding around. 207 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 1: And if you don't like that, well, guess what. Some 208 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 1: of it's going to high speed rail too. 209 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 5: For California's climate programs. And of course local and state 210 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 5: sales tax now it's six bucks per gallon that adds. 211 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 2: Which if you live in Palmdale, if that new sales 212 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:27,559 Speaker 2: tax increases county wide, Palmdale will have the highest sales 213 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 2: tax in the entire country, at like ten point seventy 214 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 2: five percent. 215 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: How can that be sustainable? 216 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 2: It's not. 217 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 5: And of course local and state sales tax now it's 218 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,079 Speaker 5: six bucks per gallon, that adds up to nearly twenty 219 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 5: dollars more in California. Every time you fill up an 220 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 5: average size tank can't get that cup of coffee and 221 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 5: the wharton full dive. To better understand why and how 222 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 5: that impacts you, we got rare access inside one of 223 00:11:55,880 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 5: California's remaining refineries. So why our refinery. 224 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 2: Is California is a tough place to do business for refiners. 225 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 5: Overlooking the San Francisco Skyline. Every day, Chevron's Richmond refinery 226 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 5: produces enough gas for one out of every five cars 227 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 5: in northern California. 228 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 2: And by the way, it's Chevron sounding the alarm that 229 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 2: if these new car regulations go through, they might leave. 230 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: Well. And remember when Loraina Gonzalez was still in the 231 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 1: Assembly and she and Elon were getting into it on Twitter, 232 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: and she told him to get out of the state 233 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: and he said message received, and then Tesla moved out. 234 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: They're essentially doing that same thing to the oil refineries. 235 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:38,439 Speaker 1: They're telling them they don't want their business here, even 236 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: though they need them. 237 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 2: I know he's come around on this, but I very 238 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 2: much remember then Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Vira Gosa, 239 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:50,959 Speaker 2: telling Valero to get out of the state. 240 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: I remember that too. 241 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 2: He's changed his position on that, but that did happen. 242 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 5: And about sixty percent of the jet fuel San Jose 243 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 5: to Sacramento, which costs more to make in California than 244 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 5: anywhere else. 245 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 3: The labor costs here or higher, natural gas and electricity 246 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 3: is more expensive. 247 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 5: Which Ron Richman Refinery manager Tolly Graves points out, it's 248 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 5: passed on to you at the pump. And then there's 249 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 5: California's special blend. Only a handful of refineries outside of 250 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 5: California can actually make California gasoline cleaner. 251 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: Fuel took billions of dollars. 252 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:26,439 Speaker 2: But I don't understand about the summer blend is this 253 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 2: is a California only thing. Texas, where they make a 254 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,439 Speaker 2: lot of the gasoline and has almost the same amount 255 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 2: of population, they have cleaner air than we do. How 256 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 2: does that work well? 257 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 1: And just think about how the economics work regarding the 258 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: summer blend. If it's a boutique thing where there's essentially 259 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,199 Speaker 1: one market for it, of course you're gonna pay more 260 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: for it. Think about any other product that's boutique. If 261 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 1: you go by door scotch at the grocery store, just 262 00:13:56,559 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: the regular door scotch, the white label, it's one price. 263 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: If you want to make sure that it's aged twelve years, 264 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 1: you pay a different price. And the population of people 265 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: that want to buy the aid scotch is much smaller 266 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: than the population of people that just want the white label. 267 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 2: It's like you're speaking from experience. It does sound that way, 268 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 2: doesn't it. 269 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 5: California gasoline cleaner fuel took billions of dollars of investment, 270 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 5: comes at a cost. 271 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: You know we're next to is the called the Sulfur 272 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: Recovery Unit. 273 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 5: And don't forget California's environmental regulations, which Chevrons Brian Humbinger 274 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 5: says require a significant long term investment. We're one of 275 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 5: the cleanest refineries in the world. 276 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: We adhere to the most strict regulations. 277 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 5: They say those investments can take thirty years to recoup. 278 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 2: The next thing, and not only that, the regulations that 279 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 2: the California Air Resources Board puts on the refiners, the 280 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 2: quote unquote polluters. Well, you can import gasoline and oil 281 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 2: into this state from other countries where they're making it 282 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 2: much dirtier, and if they don't have to pay those fees, 283 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 2: so it's actually it's an unfair level of competition to 284 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 2: just import the gasoline then to refine it here. 285 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: Well, and I think term limits is playing a role 286 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: in these decisions because all of these politicians get credit 287 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: for being green when they sign this disastrous legislation, but 288 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: then when we have to feel the increase in costs. 289 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: They're long gone, and the new person says, I didn't 290 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: do that. Don't blame me, even though ideologically they're on 291 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: the same page with the guy who did. 292 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 5: Thirty years to recoup. 293 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 3: In the next fifteen years, we will eliminate in the 294 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 3: state of California the sales of internal combustion engines. 295 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 2: How's that going, Gavy? 296 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: Another complete disaster. 297 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 5: Well, the state pushes toward a clean energy future. California 298 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 5: policies are pushing oil companies out. 299 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 8: California has exceeded its environmental goals. 300 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 5: Making California and more dependent on the rest of the 301 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 5: world to keep cars moving. 302 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 2: In the meantime earlier than established time. 303 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 5: You see, Californias are so called energy island. 304 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 2: Even though we're not a physical island like Hawaii. 305 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: Nope, And even though we have a lot of oil 306 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 1: in our ground. 307 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 5: You see, Californias are so called energy island. Unlike other states, 308 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 5: we don't have pipelines pumping in gas, so it's got 309 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 5: to come in by tanker. And now instead of refining 310 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 5: all California gas in California, well, we're outsourcing to Asia 311 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 5: to make California special blend where environmental standards they aren't 312 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 5: as strict, and they have to ship it across the ocean, 313 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 5: which can take weeks, increasing. 314 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 2: Cause this doesn't sound very good for the environment, does it. 315 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: No? And by the way, they can have accidents too. 316 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: Remember the Exxon Valdez. 317 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and they have to ship it across. 318 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 2: People in Santa Barbara County are freaking out because they 319 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 2: want to restart the offshore pipelines and they remember what 320 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 2: happened at Refugio. 321 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 5: And they have to ship it across the ocean, which 322 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 5: can take weeks, increasing pollution and increasing the potential for 323 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 5: price bikes during local global shortages. For instance, China has 324 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 5: already stopped exporting fuel because they don't have enough gas 325 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 5: right now for their own drivers. 326 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. Apparently Asian countries are the ones that they are 327 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:17,919 Speaker 2: going to feel the effects of the stuff going on. 328 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:19,679 Speaker 2: And I ran right now to the point where like 329 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 2: in Bangladesh, they're going to close universities one day a 330 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:25,360 Speaker 2: week so they can save on electricity and fuel costs. 331 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 1: Oh my, yeah, it's. 332 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,120 Speaker 2: Going to be bad. It's going to be bad here too. 333 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 2: Just wait till the air grid starts cutting five percent 334 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 2: of flights. 335 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 1: I've been talking about this for years. 336 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 5: Okay, CHET Run president Andy Waltz says, after years of 337 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 5: attacking oil companies, there are signs the political conversation is shifting. 338 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: What it took was two refineries to close and then 339 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: they said, oh, maybe they're not price gouging. 340 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 5: Is this that I told you so? 341 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 9: Moment? 342 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 6: For me? 343 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: It is I think for the rest of us too. 344 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 5: From the oil industry to agency heads and lawmakers. 345 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 3: No doubt it was, you know, very adversarial at time 346 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 3: during the special sessions. 347 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: That was probably the beginning of the shift, is when 348 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,440 Speaker 1: that report came back and governism couldn't prove that there's 349 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: price gouging. 350 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:08,360 Speaker 5: Price gouging special set. 351 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:10,880 Speaker 2: I notice that Gavin doesn't really say that what's going 352 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 2: on right now. He doesn't say anything about the oil 353 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 2: companies are ripping you off. 354 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: No, and there was no apology, by the way, for 355 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:18,639 Speaker 1: all of his slander. 356 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 5: Price gouging Special Sessions are widely seen as the turning point. 357 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 3: There has been like a shift in the discussion. 358 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 2: State leaders see and that whole thing where oh, we're 359 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 2: going to make sure there are no price bikes because 360 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 2: refiners are going to have to have these storage tanks 361 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,200 Speaker 2: that cost billions of dollars that chased two of them 362 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 2: out of the state, and it has not done anything 363 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 2: about the price bikes. 364 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 1: Good job, Gavin. 365 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 5: State leaders say California is pushing towards a cleaner energy future. 366 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 3: But I think now there's a real, you know, broad 367 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:53,439 Speaker 3: consensus oil companies are a partner in this transition, well. 368 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 5: Acknowledging they're still depending on refineries to power the present. 369 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,199 Speaker 3: We recognize that the oil companies have real decisions to make, 370 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:02,199 Speaker 3: and we need to make it worth their while to 371 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 3: stay here. 372 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 5: The state temporarily suspended a new price gouging law that 373 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:09,160 Speaker 5: would cap how much oil companies can make during price spikes, 374 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 5: but refiners say it's still on the books. They Warren 375 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 5: proposed changes to California's Cap and invest program could make 376 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 5: it cheaper to refine gas overseas than here at home. 377 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:20,920 Speaker 2: I think if the voters figure out that the which 378 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:25,119 Speaker 2: I don't understand how this thought process works. It's the 379 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,640 Speaker 2: same atmosphere whether the oil is drilled and refined in 380 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 2: India or here. It's the same planet that's going to melt. 381 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 2: So what exactly are we doing? 382 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: I can tell you they didn't think it through. I 383 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 1: think if the voters figure out that the problem is policy, 384 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 1: they're going to say, hey, I shouldn't be paying this much. 385 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 5: And for drivers like Serena, once gas gets over like 386 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 5: seven dollars, I'm going to be like, Okay, I'm going 387 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 5: to start riding a bike. 388 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,160 Speaker 1: Maybe it's anything a lot longer. 389 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,879 Speaker 2: Wait, if your commute is two hours, how much longer 390 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:54,680 Speaker 2: is that on a bike? 391 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: You better be Mary Poppins. 392 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,439 Speaker 5: California tries to balance climate goals. I think just need 393 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 5: to end up working together with the reality of how 394 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 5: people live and work. When you see the traffic, the 395 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 5: question now isn't just who's to blame for higher prices. 396 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:11,399 Speaker 5: It's not going to stop people from going to work, 397 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 5: but whether the state can keep gas affordable while pushing 398 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 5: refiners away. 399 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 2: Doesn't seem like it. 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Because of our apps and our websites, 422 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 2: you can stream this noon to three show wherever you are. 423 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 2: If you're in a part of California where the signal 424 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 2: doesn't come through, or if you're outside of the state, 425 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 2: you can listen. And because of podcasting, you can listen 426 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 2: to this show whenever you want. You can even hit 427 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 2: the rewind button and listen to it twice. 428 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: Let's go to Adam in Huntington Beach. Adam, Hello, Hey, I'm. 429 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:57,880 Speaker 10: Not so sure gas prices are high enough. Remember back 430 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 10: in the day finding cigarette butts everywhere, and then once 431 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,640 Speaker 10: the prices cigarettes went up, people weren't smoking as much. 432 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 10: There weren't butts everywhere, you're bearing, your shirts didn't smell 433 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 10: like smoke. And then remember with fentanyl, we had a 434 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 10: lot of problems with the people using fentanyl, with thefts, 435 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 10: with shoplifting, but eventually the fentanyl users all died. Imagine 436 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 10: the fentanyl if we had imagine the crime right now 437 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 10: if those people had not died from fentanyl. So it's 438 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,160 Speaker 10: kind of the same thing with fuel prices. Right now. 439 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 10: I look around and people in parking lots are just 440 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 10: sitting there in their cars, idling incessant parking lot idling 441 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 10: with their vehicles. Gas prices aren't high enough. Trucks are 442 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 10: racing down the road, cars with exhaust are flying down 443 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 10: the road. There's got to be a point where gas 444 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 10: prices are high enough to where those pests aren't annoying us, 445 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 10: just like the cigarette butts and fentanyl, and you guys 446 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,360 Speaker 10: took the wrong side of the whole fentanyl thing too, 447 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:05,639 Speaker 10: So no crank. We'll know when gas prices are high enough. 448 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 2: Speaking up high enough, Adam, how high are you right now? 449 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 10: I'm serious? There are constantly people sitting in their cars 450 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 10: in parking lots. Idlink drives me nuts, and there's trucks 451 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 10: racing down the road and it is noisy at night 452 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 10: with motorcycles. Not much motorcycles that's at the beach in Newports, 453 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 10: but with cars racing down the road. 454 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 2: John, you remember I said we should take calls. I 455 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 2: regret that. 456 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, sir. 457 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 2: Maybe we get a better one. 458 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: Well, that's an interesting take. The state would be better 459 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: if it weren't for the people. 460 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 2: You know, it's a roll of the dice every single 461 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:50,439 Speaker 2: time we click on a caller. 462 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: Well, I get it. If the prices were higher, you 463 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 1: wouldn't have as many people on the freeways. But people 464 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,120 Speaker 1: need to be able to get to work. 465 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 2: Well, lest we just pretend that COVID happened again and 466 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,640 Speaker 2: everyone can work at home and then I can fly 467 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 2: on the four h five. 468 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 1: How'd that work out for us? 469 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 2: You know, it was a bad time, but the traffic 470 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 2: was great. It was wonderful. It took me twenty minutes 471 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 2: to go this seventeen mile commute. I love that part 472 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 2: of it. 473 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: Well, let's go to Thomas and Lakeport Thomas. 474 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 11: Hello, good afternoon, gentlemen. Listen, we're supposed to be cleaning 475 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 11: up the environment. So every time we swap fuels with 476 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,919 Speaker 11: this new blend, it costs money for the refineries and 477 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 11: we get the we get gouged for it. So why 478 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,440 Speaker 11: don't we just keep the same fuel all year round 479 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,119 Speaker 11: and make it the best we can and leave it 480 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 11: at that. Then we have a casino up here that 481 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:53,959 Speaker 11: imports their gas from Nevada. But by the time it 482 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 11: gets here, the condensation has built up so high in 483 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,919 Speaker 11: there that you only get half your mileage out of 484 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 11: a gallon of gas. And the other thing is too 485 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 11: You see these guys with these penis trucks, that's what 486 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 11: I call them. Look at my penis. They're just flying 487 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 11: down the highway like there's no gas problem. They can afford. 488 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 11: The gas kills me. Then a lot of people I 489 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 11: talk to they don't realize the slower you go, the 490 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,399 Speaker 11: less gas you burn. If the faster you go, the 491 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 11: more gas you burn. What are you accomplishing? But everybody's 492 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,119 Speaker 11: in a big hurry. And then this is the real kicker. 493 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 11: AOC told us we were gonna die ten years ago. 494 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 11: How come nobody calls her on it? Because we're still here. 495 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 10: She said that we. 496 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 11: Were gonna die because of a global warming, because of 497 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 11: gas and whatnot. Why doesn't somebody ask her? How come 498 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 11: we're still here. I can't believe these Republicans. They don't 499 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 11: They just don't have any teeth. Anyway, that's my comments. 500 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,400 Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call, sir. 501 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 2: A word I did not think i'd hear today. Penis trucks. 502 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: I have never heard of trucks described that way before, 503 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: have you? 504 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 2: That's a first for everything. 505 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 1: You think Chas Bono has one. 506 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 2: All right, John, we're oh for two? You think we'll 507 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,160 Speaker 2: be oh for three. 508 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: Let's go to Jonathan in La Jonathan, Hello. 509 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,639 Speaker 8: Hey, I went on the John Phillips Show and listened 510 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:30,639 Speaker 8: to the Antonio Villa Rigosa interview, and uh, you know, 511 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 8: I just thought it was a softball moment. 512 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 1: John. 513 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 8: I had wondered where the teeth were you know. 514 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 2: Well they were chewing on and M and m's that's 515 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 2: where the teeth were. 516 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 8: Well, gosh, you guys could have dug in have an 517 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 8: act criminal on. I was really kind of amazed at 518 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 8: the questions and Randy, you just said that he was 519 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 8: looking at getting rid of Valero and then did not, 520 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 8: so to speak, change his mind, so be such a 521 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 8: flip flop. I had also hoped that you would ask 522 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 8: what was his gang nickname? You know, he couldn't pass 523 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 8: the bar all that kind of stuff, so I had wondered. 524 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 8: You know, it was such a softball moment, So I 525 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 8: was a little bit let down by that. 526 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 2: In all right, how about this? 527 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,880 Speaker 1: Can I make it up to you? If we ever 528 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: have Katie Porter on this program, I will ask her 529 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,439 Speaker 1: what her gang nickname was? 530 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 8: Oh well, come on, John good Jack. Yeah, I liked 531 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 8: I liked those clips, you know, the f you clip 532 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 8: and everything. It's it's been all good. But this is 533 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 8: this is a real guy that I think he's left 534 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 8: a mess here, and I just thought that was a 535 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 8: little weak, even though you're awesome. I love the show, 536 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,399 Speaker 8: Randy the Great and all that kind of stuff. It's Friday. 537 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 8: It's a Jimmy Buffett Friday. I always appreciate it. So 538 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 8: I'll take care and call you again when I. 539 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 1: Want to all right, thank you for the call, sir. 540 00:27:54,560 --> 00:28:08,680 Speaker 1: We struck out, well, we tried. Here's the thing when 541 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 1: you get one of these politicians on and Monday, we 542 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: have Tony thurmanon, who's the state Superintendent of Public Instruction. 543 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: He's running for governor, so yes, and Tony Adkins dropped out, 544 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: so there's no point in having her on. But here's 545 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 1: the thing. You have these politicians on and you have 546 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,360 Speaker 1: a limited amount of time with them. It's not an 547 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: unlimited amount of time with them, it's a limited amount 548 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 1: of time with them. So you pick a topic. And 549 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: with Via Regosa, the number one issue at the time 550 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 1: that he was on was related to the debate that 551 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 1: was canceled, So you have to talk to him about 552 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:53,479 Speaker 1: the debate. You just do, and then you essentially have 553 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: time for one subject if you want to be able 554 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: to ask follow ups, because you can't talk about every 555 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: subject under the sun. And one of the topics that 556 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 1: we spend a lot of time discussing on this program 557 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 1: is how poorly the fire victims have been treated. We 558 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: talk about it on an almost daily basis. And I 559 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 1: figured as someone who was mayor of Los Angeles who 560 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: is now running to be governor of California. It would 561 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 1: be relevant to get his take on it because he 562 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 1: might offer an interesting perspective. And what he did was 563 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 1: and maybe it surprised you, maybe it didn't, but he 564 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 1: was quite critical of how the state and the city 565 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 1: responded to the fires, including fire Raid, which is money 566 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: that was raised by a private charity that was supposed 567 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: to go to fire victims that wasn't And he said 568 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 1: if he were to be elected governor, he would direct 569 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 1: the Attorney general to investigate that and find out why 570 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: the money didn't go to the fire victims. I thought 571 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 1: that was interesting. If he comes back on we'll talk 572 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: about a different topic. I don't know if I'm going 573 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: to ask him about his gang affiliation. That would certainly 574 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 1: be a curveball, I would say. 575 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 2: Not super relevant to what's going on in the state 576 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 2: of California. 577 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 1: You know, he's a Dodger fan. Does that count. 578 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 2: He did go on KQED and he talked about how 579 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 2: pissed his mama is when he got those tattoos. 580 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: So if you want to hear about those stories, I 581 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 1: guess you can listen to that podcast because it was 582 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 1: discussed over there. But anyway, maybe I will ask him. 583 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: I don't know. Usually I come up with the questions. 584 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 1: Morning of eight hundred two two two five two two 585 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 1: two is a telephone number one eight hundred two two 586 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 1: two five two two two. If you'd like to email 587 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: the show, you can do so at johnny don't like 588 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't like show 589 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. Ryan Gardusky joins us at the 590 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: top of the hour, so make sure you stick around 591 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 1: for that. Let's go to Cheryl in Upper Lake. 592 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 9: Cheryl, Hello, Hello, Nice to hear you guys again. I 593 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:20,440 Speaker 9: was impressed with Thomas's call. He's ten miles away from 594 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 9: where I am. I'm an Upper Lake. In our area 595 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 9: we call the big truck's crow dosers. But in his 596 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 9: town because that's everyone when they harvest, everyone gets a white, 597 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 9: big diesel truck, and that way no one can tell anybody, 598 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:39,240 Speaker 9: apart I guess, But in his town. I was there 599 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:43,480 Speaker 9: yesterday and saw the piece truck with the actual testicles 600 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 9: hanging from the rear axle. Have you all seen that? 601 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 2: I have seen that a time or two. 602 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 9: Disgusting. I saw a check with pink ones. But anyway, 603 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 9: I also went to the gas station. He was referring 604 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,920 Speaker 9: to the Big Valley gas station. And it was funny 605 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,560 Speaker 9: because you know how the leftist that they have a 606 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 9: code in our area. It's so nice, it's so refreshing 607 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 9: when someone admits there a Trump supporter, because it's so 608 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 9: darn rare. And I'll wear my pink Maga hat in 609 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 9: the store and you know, they're like, boy, you're brave. 610 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 10: I work for the school. 611 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 9: I can't wear one. But anyway, I was at the 612 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 9: Big Valley gas station and there was a Trump sticker 613 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 9: pointing to the price of the gas saying I did this. 614 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 9: I peeled it off. A fellow was standing next to 615 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 9: me and. 616 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 11: He goes, yeah, the code. You know. 617 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 9: I talked about thanks mister Trump, and I immediately said no, 618 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 9: thanks to Nooscombe, and I quoted to him the wrong price. 619 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 9: I would know if you could clarify the I said, 620 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 9: we have the highest taxes on gas sixty five cents. 621 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 9: But everything you were quoting a dollar forty. 622 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,160 Speaker 1: We paying taxes or so you say, well, we just 623 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 1: went through all of the numbers at the beginning of 624 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 1: the hour. So when this hour is done. When this 625 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,520 Speaker 1: hour is done, we will post the podcast edition of 626 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 1: that so you can go back and listen to the 627 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: breakdown of just exactly what you're paying for a gallon 628 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 1: of gas in the state of California. 629 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 9: Hey, can I say just one more thing and I'll 630 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,440 Speaker 9: let you go. I'm hoping that we also have another 631 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 9: caller from my area, Ed, and I'm hoping that I 632 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,600 Speaker 9: need some help with this radio station we have here. 633 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 9: I'm the only one who ever gives them any crap, 634 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 9: and it's KPFC eighty eight one. And I would sure 635 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 9: appreciate it if those guys would give me a hand 636 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 9: and set these marks as straight that we have here. 637 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you very much for the call. 638 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 1: I appreciate it. 639 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,240 Speaker 2: Did Jimmy Buffett Friday start early for everybody? 640 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 1: Well, I think that's the first time someone's called one 641 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 1: radio station to complain about another. 642 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 2: Won't be the last. 643 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,440 Speaker 1: That's very true. Thank you for the call. What would 644 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 1: your reaction be if you saw a woman driving around 645 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,440 Speaker 1: town in a truck like that with male genitalia hanging 646 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:09,040 Speaker 1: from the back. 647 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised. 648 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,920 Speaker 1: I not only wouldn't be surprised, I would make it 649 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 1: a mental noe not to cut them off. Because I 650 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,640 Speaker 1: have a feeling if you do cut them off, that 651 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:31,960 Speaker 1: driver is going to be aggressive and they're not going 652 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: to let it go. 653 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,880 Speaker 2: That would be my guess. I thought that's supposed to 654 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 2: reduce their aggression. 655 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:48,520 Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Ruth. Ruth, Hello, Hi, I get. 656 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,759 Speaker 12: Two if feats. The first one is I call a 657 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:55,400 Speaker 12: voter registration today that we get an absoluteep out related 658 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,120 Speaker 12: in California. They're not going to get rid of it. 659 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:02,479 Speaker 12: So I said, oh, I'll believe illegal Asians will vote, 660 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 12: and she hung up on me. And the second issue, 661 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,920 Speaker 12: it's about the gas. When I was littled at seventeen 662 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 12: cents a gallon, and they used to ship gas to 663 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,200 Speaker 12: New Jersey and they'd pay a dollar seven for what 664 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,239 Speaker 12: we pay three times as much. We're here and I'm 665 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,680 Speaker 12: right next to the oil referred to here. 666 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,040 Speaker 1: Well, now you pay more in California than you do 667 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,120 Speaker 1: in Hawaii, and all of it has to be shipped 668 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:30,800 Speaker 1: in Hawaii. 669 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 12: But it's crazy. 670 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call. I appreciate it. 671 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,560 Speaker 1: Let's go to Wes Wes Hello. 672 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:51,440 Speaker 13: Yeah, hey, I was listening to you and the gas 673 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 13: and everything else. I agree with you. Gas is just 674 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,880 Speaker 13: too blasted high, and they've got to be done a 675 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 13: good gotta have something to do, you know, have something 676 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:04,920 Speaker 13: to bring it down. 677 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:13,280 Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, sir. I appreciate it, Randy, 678 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:14,280 Speaker 1: this was your idea. 679 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,000 Speaker 2: I regret my choices in life. I regret my decisions, 680 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,399 Speaker 2: but we're on this train and there's no getting off 681 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 2: of it now. 682 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:29,800 Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Bill in Los Angeles. Bill, Hello, Hey. 683 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,400 Speaker 6: There, jenneral any good to hear or hear from you 684 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,880 Speaker 6: and talk to you. I was just had a comment 685 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:36,800 Speaker 6: on I guess it was via re Goosa that was 686 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,040 Speaker 6: saying he was he would if he was elected in 687 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,759 Speaker 6: mayor call for an investigation and just a bunch of 688 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,640 Speaker 6: wind as usual from them, because when have you ever 689 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 6: heard a word after Governor duche Newsen called for a 690 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:53,920 Speaker 6: Blue Ribbon committee to be assigned to investigate anything, that 691 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,759 Speaker 6: was the last you ever heard of anything about it. 692 00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,920 Speaker 6: So I don't think anything would happen when the leftists 693 00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 6: is going to claim to be to investigate other lest misdoings. 694 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,160 Speaker 1: Well, Gavin Newso certainly likes to investigate things, but he's 695 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,120 Speaker 1: a kind of guy who likes to have these big, 696 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:15,560 Speaker 1: grandiose proclamations with no follow through. That is certainly on 697 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:20,279 Speaker 1: brand for him. Thank you for the call. Let's go 698 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,160 Speaker 1: to ED and Lake County ED. 699 00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:26,680 Speaker 4: Hello, gentlemen, what a treat that was. I actually had 700 00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,439 Speaker 4: a shout out for another caller just a few calls. 701 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:33,680 Speaker 4: That was pretty cool. So anyway, third Lake County call 702 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,920 Speaker 4: for the hour. I'm actually in clear Lake and I 703 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,800 Speaker 4: wanted to address that very odd individual, Adam I believe 704 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:44,280 Speaker 4: his name was, that wanted to discuss the gas prices 705 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:48,480 Speaker 4: going up further and how beneficial that would be in general. 706 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,960 Speaker 4: You know, the gas prices in California obviously have a 707 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,400 Speaker 4: lot to do with the fact that we're outsourcing from 708 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:59,000 Speaker 4: Asia and everything else, but the affordability as a whole 709 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:03,439 Speaker 4: for the nation equates down to illegal immigration. Wages being 710 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,680 Speaker 4: stagnant equate to illegal immigration. Here in Lake County, we 711 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:11,279 Speaker 4: have five, just in my local little area, of these 712 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:15,000 Speaker 4: illegal roadside taco stands, and these are being brought to 713 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,799 Speaker 4: us for the crime laughter out of Woodland down by 714 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:23,080 Speaker 4: Los Angeles. I've spoken with the public health officer in 715 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,920 Speaker 4: Lake County. He said we have more than twenty of 716 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:30,240 Speaker 4: these roadside unlicensed food stands running just in Lake County, 717 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,960 Speaker 4: and that there's more than one hundred and twenty between 718 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:38,440 Speaker 4: here and Woodland from the same owner. This gentleman is 719 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:42,360 Speaker 4: running a racketeering crime organization. When you approach these people, 720 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:47,080 Speaker 4: they have security that are larger, more intimidating illegal gentlemen. 721 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,319 Speaker 4: So if you go and approach them, they'll call and 722 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,759 Speaker 4: one of their security enforcers shows up to be a 723 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:56,879 Speaker 4: tough guy. So we have an issue that comes down 724 00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,759 Speaker 4: to illegal immigration. Number one. We don't need to worry 725 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,640 Speaker 4: about the environment. We need to worry about the wages 726 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,520 Speaker 4: in the construction industry. I've been in and been stagnant 727 00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:10,160 Speaker 4: for decades because when I started thirty two years ago 728 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,560 Speaker 4: doing flooring for aleven as i still currently do. Now, 729 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,000 Speaker 4: we had, you know, a few Hispanic guys, Spanish speaking 730 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,760 Speaker 4: guys that you'd see on the job, mostly laborers. And 731 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,759 Speaker 4: now I'd say, the job sites you go to are 732 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:30,799 Speaker 4: eighty five ninety percent English second language employees, and these 733 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:32,920 Speaker 4: are skilled trades. These are guys start making one hundred 734 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,080 Speaker 4: and twenty thousand dollars a year. And so when Adam 735 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:40,120 Speaker 4: sees these big trucks driving around and these guys have 736 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,600 Speaker 4: their seventy thousand dollars, big trucks that make Adam so upset. 737 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,560 Speaker 4: He needs to realize that he has to address the 738 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:47,640 Speaker 4: illegal immigration with the rest of us and be a 739 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:48,600 Speaker 4: realistic person. 740 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,480 Speaker 2: And Ryan, thank you for the call, sir. We're out 741 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:55,280 Speaker 2: of time. We appreciate it. That was fun. 742 00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:01,920 Speaker 1: Weekends one hour away, kids, It's the John Philler Show.