Steve Hilton

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3,771 appearances 18 recordings 14 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 3 Jun

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PBD Podcast · PBD Interview: Steve Hilton - How California Became America’s BIGGEST Political Failure · 21 May 2026 podcast

Electric bills, we're the second highest, only to Hawaii.

We have gas-fired power stations in California, natural gas-fired power stations that are deliberately being run at 10% to 15% of their capacity

because they're only being used as backup for wind and solar.

So we've basically got this infrastructure for energy that we're not using.

And we have abundant natural gas in California that is just being kept in the ground.

And we're now importing nearly 80% of the crude oil we use and 90% of the natural gas.

I can tell you.

I was just at a refinery.

So for crude oil, it's coming mainly from Iraq and South America, the Amazon rainforest.

We're in Ecuador and Brazil.

So just when Newsom was in Brazil for the climate conference, the latest data came out.

We're now buying half the oil that's being drilled in the Amazon.

because it's heavy, and the refineries, it's a particular kind of crude oil that fits the refineries.

It's like California oil, it's heavier.

So in the name of climate change,

California is driving an expansion of oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest.

So that's the crude oil.

The refined gasoline is worse than just the crude oil because they've shut down the refineries because there's not enough business for them and because of the cost of doing anything.

We're now importing not just crude oil, but refined, finished gasoline.

We use about 800,000 barrels a day in California.

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