Let’s not sugarcoat it. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) and its so-called Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) aren’t about saving the planet; they’re about making it so expensive to drive a car in this state that you either walk or cram into unreliable public transit.
Their goal is simple: make gas unaffordable, and they’re doing it behind closed doors, with no vote, no accountability, and no regard for working Californians.
CARB recently submitted “fixes” to its deeply controversial LCFS updates, rules that the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) already rejected because they were unclear, procedurally flawed, and legally sloppy. Twenty-six sections of this 300+ page bureaucratic behemoth had to be rewritten. Let that sink in. If these rules are so convoluted that the state’s own legal oversight office can’t make sense of them, what chance does a farmer, a trucker, or a small business owner have?
But forget the paperwork, let’s talk about the real impact.
These regulations are set to spike gas prices across California by up to 65 cents per gallon in the near term. And that’s just the start. Experts predict we could be staring at $1.50 per gallon increases by 2035 and that’s before we add on Newsom’s other climate taxes and surcharges.
Who pays for that? You do.
You pay up every time you fill up. Each time a delivery truck brings food to your store. Each time a contractor drives to a job site. Every mile flown by our military training in California skies.
Let’s be real: id CARB is an unelected, unaccountable board, handpicked by Governor Gavin Newsom, and their mandate isn’t to lower emissions responsibly. It’s to drive fossil fuels and anyone who depends on them into the ground. And they’re doing it without a single vote cast by the people of California.
If you think this doesn’t affect you, think again. It touches everything that moves: your groceries, your deliveries, your power grid, even your job.
CARB’s LCFS isn’t an environmental policy. It’s economic warfare against Californians who still believe in driving to work, feeding their families, and living without being punished by their own government.
It’s time to call this what it is: a rigged system designed to raise prices, kill jobs, and force compliance. The war on affordability is here. And CARB is leading the charge.
