Tom Steyer

If you think about an oil company, okay, they don't pay for their pollution.

It's like, it's true.

They don't pay for when they pollute the air and water and make people sick.

That's free.

They don't pay for their impact on the climate.

That's free.

And we are spending $200 billion in Iran to protect oil.

The US armed services are all about protecting oil companies that they don't pay for, the taxpayer pays for.

And they're still much more expensive without paying all those costs.

They're still much more expensive than clean energy.

It's nuts.

But the other thing in our state is we have legal monopolies for electricity.

And they charge us twice as much as the average in the United States of America, twice as much.

And they're furious if they're spending tens of millions of dollars against me, because I'm like, no, no, we're going to introduce local competition.

They're like, competition?

Are you crazy?

Like, that's communist.

It's like, wow.

So to a very large extent, my whole campaign is about representing working people to drive down costs that these corporations are driving up.

They're making record profits at the expense of working people and people can't afford to live here anymore.