There seems to be a religious hatred among government trusters against fossil-fuel suppliers. A loathing almost as irrational as the unshakeable, almost hypersexual, love of self-styled “conservatives” for men in government uniforms.
Even as petroleum products have been made cheaper and cheaper by private sector innovators, the government of California is poised to forcibly take millions of dollars from the State’s long-suffering taxpayers to build an infrastructure of electric-car-charging stations.
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