Steve Hilton
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And that, a ton of that is not legislated specifically, is the way it's implemented by these endless agencies.
We've got 200 plus state agencies like CARB, the California Air Resources Board,
that are just churning out these new rules and everything from trucks.
And, you know, they have this thing called VMT, vehicle miles traveled, that gets in the way of building anything.
Because if you want to build anything, you have to do a calculation of vehicle.
How many vehicle miles traveled will be the result of you building a new housing development?
A guy who runs a lovely, just sweet, exactly the kind of business I love, right?
It was an artisan gin company.
distiller in the central coast of california beautiful young entrepreneur you know he's lovely business he was telling me that he doing really well and he wanted to build a second still like whatever you know i think that's the right and they you had to go through all the crap and it was denied because of vmt vehicle miles traveled because it would increase
vehicle miles trapped yes that's called growth that's called progress like more development more great and they don't want that
But that stuff is coming out of the bureaucracy.
So what, as governor, you can do, you appoint thousands of people to hundreds of these agencies.
Another example is in the same sort of area, oil and gas.
So we have abundant oil reserves in California.
I mean, you know, just kind of behind us in Kern County, 70 miles or so.
And I mean, not as big as some of the states, but I think we have the fifth biggest in America.
We used to produce most of the oil and gas we use in California from within California.
Because of their war on fossil fuels, the climate warriors are shutting it down.
So we now are in a ludicrous situation.
We're using about the same as we ever did, but instead of producing it in Kern County near Bakersfield and it coming on a nice clean pipeline to the refineries here in LA and up on the coast,