Commentary: The Way China Captured California
Why does California have the highest gasoline taxes in the U.S.? Don’t look to the Strait of Hormuz. Look at Beijing. Of course, energy has been expensive in California for a long time. Some of this can be attributed to spacey Californians who have spent half a century dreaming up green disasters. The 1979 movie The China Syndrome depicted the evil power company that built its nuclear plant on a fault line. It had nothing to do with China, except that in a meltdown, the reactor’s core would, so to speak, drop all the way there.