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Regulating toward ruin, California’s ongoing attack against prosperity saw officials scheduling their next onslaught for just after the election.

It’s been said that the surest path toward tax reform would be to move Election Day to April 16. In a similar way, avoiding accountability was readily accomplished by passing the buck to regulators after ballots had been cast, especially when it meant the likelihood of further pain at the pump.

Speaking with Fox News Digital, California state Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh (R) lamented precisely that as the California Air Resources Board (CARB) was scheduled to discuss a proposal expected to increase gasoline prices by $0.47 per gallon, and that was just to start.

“It’s a big, big deal, and so people deserve to know and have full transparency by these boards, what it is that they’re doing and the impact that it will have on their daily life,” she told the outlet. “So we talk about the cost of living in California. We talk about the top concern in California is the cost of living, and when it comes to the impact of fuels, this would be a direct ripple effect on increasing the cost of living in California. People need a break.”

Members of CARB, appointed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), the Democrat Majority of the Senate Rules Committee, and the State Assembly Speaker, were slated to meet Nov. 7-8 where they are expected to vote on a proposal regarding the state’s carbon fuel standard.

Last week, Ochoa Bogh and Assemblyman Greg Wallis (R) submitted a letter to CARB Chair Liane Randolph detailing the $1.50 burden Golden State consumers were already paying for fuel over the average cost across the nation while warning the proposal could amount to as much as $0.85 more by 2030 and $1.50 more by 2035 on every gallon.

“What we’re asking is that before you take a vote on new standards that are going to obviously have an impact on fuel prices, give us full disclosure as to what exactly it is that you’re imposing and what the financial impact will be on Californians,” said Ochoa Bogh to Fox News Digital as the letter was co-signed by 23 other California legislators, including every member of the state’s Senate Republican Caucus.

Amid the state’s ongoing war against emissions, slapping behavioral taxes on goods and services at every opportunity to force consumers toward electric vehicles despite the grid’s inability to handle present energy consumption, Newsom just signed ABX2-1 into law, in part granting state regulators increased authority over oil companies and placing the responsibility for “stabilizing prices at the pump” on them.

The governor made it a goal in his California Climate Commitment to phase out fossil fuels with a target of a 94% decrease in oil demand by 2045.

In his own statement on the potential impact on fuel prices, Wallis said, “The state’s refusal to disclose the real cost of these changes is irresponsible. Californians deserve transparency before any vote that will increase the price at the pump.”

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