Just my response:
People are numb or dumb.
Refinery fires happen, same time of year. Government controls supply by limiting number of refineries. Prices go up artificially.
It’s not capitalism without real and unregulated supply and demand. California offers crony capitalism. European countries also offer high quality and reasonable public transportation unlike California or Los Angeles. There is no reasonable alternative to driving in Los Angeles.
Yes, stop re-electing the same people we have for the last several decades. Who have we been electing to run our state? Democrats. Have things gotten better or worse. Well I can tell you that a large population of Californians are spending more than 50% of the income on housing, our schools are in the bottom 10 lowest in the nation. The homeless population is by far the second highest even when accounting for the largest population.
California taxpayers get the lowest return on investment for what they give in taxes in the nation. We are literally being ripped off.