With Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) dropping out of the race, the new Democratic front-runner to be the next governor of California is Tom Steyer, an incompetent climate zealot who will fast-track California’s decline.
Steyer, a hedge fund billionaire who ran for president as a Democrat in 2020, has been the top polling Democrat outside of Swalwell in the race so far, flooding the state with ads funded by his own money. To give you an idea of what a Steyer administration would look like, here is a post he made last week: “Four corporations control 90% of California’s refining capacity. That’s not a market — that’s a monopoly. I’ll attack their grip on gas pricing and force an investigation into why Californians pay more than anyone else in the country.”
Aside from the obviously ridiculous assertion that “four corporations” can be a “monopoly,” this exposes the fact that Steyer is an incompetent, looming disaster. You do not need to “force an investigation” into why Californians pay more for gas than any other state in the country: California has the highest gas tax in the country and, in the name of climate change, mandates a unique gas blend that is more expensive to produce and is only produced for California. At every turn, California makes gas more expensive, which Democrats (like Steyer) can’t or won’t acknowledge.
It is entirely possible that Steyer is somehow unable to recognize this. After all, he admitted that he hasn’t followed state politics closely enough to give Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) a grade for his job performance. Yes, the guy who wants to be governor has not followed state politics enough to comment on the job he wants to win. That’s a bit of an issue.
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Hidden in Steyer’s post, though, is the implication that he cares about gas prices at all. He doesn’t, as evidenced by his 2020 presidential run, when he said, “I am the only person on this stage who will say climate is the No. 1 priority for me.” Steyer wants to end the use of fossil fuels altogether. He is not taking up this issue because he wants to address gas prices, and he would not be happier if there were more than four corporations controlling California’s refining capacity. He is looking for an excuse to destroy those corporations and their refineries, and he is going to do so under the pretense of fighting “corporate greed.”
Steyer is an incompetent zealot, someone who only wants the power of the California governor’s office so he can impose his destructive climate policies on the most populous state in the country. Steyer is a walking disaster, and he is now the odds-on favorite to take over for Newsom in running the Golden State into the ground, one suffocating climate policy at a time.