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How bout we remove all fuel taxes on diesel fuel, so the truckers can deliver stuff without going broke? At least until the "fuel crisis" is abated.

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So who pays for the potholes on California's highway system which are mostly created by trucks? Its weird how "libertarians" constantly demand small govt, but think the Interstate System was just plopped down by the Almighty.

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Thanks for your incorrect assumptions.

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The high cost of diesel fuel is not caused by road maintenance taxes. It is caused by fuel shortages or artificial scarcity done deliberately & maliciously by the Davos gang of Psychopath Parasites and their minions in the Biden regime & elsewhere.

As well as blockading the only practical alternative to diesel fuel which is DME which is also much cleaner burning than diesel fuel, works better in diesel engines (higher cetane number), lower CO2 emissions and can be domestically produced from forest overgrowth = carbon neutral. And Newsom claims he cares about climate change. What a liar.

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Uh, because the high diesel fuel price was the actual goal of Biden's handlers. High food prices, high transportation prices, bottlenecks, energy shortages, food shortages, incredible inflation. This was the goal. The plandemic was the excuse. And Klaus Schwab young global leader, Newsom was in on it, a traitor to the country and a traitor to the constitution. He not only does not belong as governor but he should be in a prison cell.

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Thanks for that. 🙄

My comment was TO Mr Shellenberger, who is running for Governor.

Because homeless junkies aren't at the top of my list of concerns today.

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They could replace diesel for Trucks quite easily with DME which actually runs more efficiently with less pollution than diesel in diesel (compression ignition) engines. DME can be made directly from any carbonaceous waste, biomass, biogas, stranded natural gas, flue gas(i.e. cement manufacture) or coal. Forest overgrowth can be directly converted into methanol & DME for gas vehicles & diesel engines respectively, greatly reducing dangerous forest fires, smoke inhalation health hazard (worst than covid), and far less expensive than diesel fuel. The corrupt cartel that determines energy policy in the West has a virtual ban on the use of methanol/DME because they know it can replace all diesel and gasoline, and they just can't allow that. However they are widely used in China where they are made from coal.

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Please address the Geoengineering issue! No other candidate is willing to be brave. It is real and it is important to address this issue in the context of climate change.

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think it is ALL about geo engineering (& 5G, electromagnetic radiation)... with ‘co2/climate change’ as a cover for the intentional poisoning of our air, water, land, flora & fauna and ourselves... this is a military-industrial effort to create a multi verse with the side effect of biologic toxicity.

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Gavin Newsom’s chances of being elected president are on par with Andrew Cuomo and Bill DeBlasio, while being far south of never gonna happen Hillary Clinton.......... but let’s hope he keeps living in fantasy land through November if it gives you a better shot of winning in November in CA......

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Michael needs to develop a short, pithy answer to the interviewer's question about what would happen to the fent smoker on the street. I'd begin it with, "He'd be taken off the street. He's breaking the law." Start with the tough, then go into the love.

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Why are you a Democrat?

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Governor Newsom has been responsible for rising homeless rates since he was mayor of SF. Despite billions of dollars that problem has only gotten worse. This reflects a lack of effectiveness in his leadership and our representatives. Sacramento is far too left and the bills they produce that end up on Newsom’s desk are more harmful in the long run. The entire California political machine is corrupt and needs to be overhauled. I support Michael because the status quo isn’t doing anything except sucking us dry.

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Why is homelessness the responsibility of the mayor. What happened to personal responsibility?

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your big assumption is that we still have free & fair election process... think you would have an excellent chance if this were true.

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Do they use voting machines in California? If so, that's very bad.

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Dominion software...

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California has always been called the bell weather state. The urban crisis, drug epidemic and failed mental health is not by far a new crisis. Decades have led here. I repeat, the VOLUNTEER clause, as police officers told me, is the problem, In addition, police should NOT be handling the afflicted.

I do not agree with your position on nuclear power, but will probably vote for you because this urban crisis and our non-treatment is too huge to ignore and there is few addressing it. As for nuclear power, I think distributed power solutions, decentralizing, is a key. Until we completely exploit waste as a power source, we should look no further until which time we find we need to supplement.

Look at San Antonio project and Marin somewhere.

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I don’t agree with Michael on everything, but he is by far the best candidate. He seems honorable and genuinely wanting to solve problems.

I wrote about California wildfires and how they are fueled by neglect and incompetence, if anyone is interested:

https://insidiousprogress.substack.com/

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I agree. Most of our most pressing problems now are ones he seems the best suited to be proactive about, especially the urban plight, and indigent crisis.

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Decentralized power plants and generation require far less expensive cable runs, power lines, excavation, etc. Waster treatment conversion to biogas, compost and water is a win win. Nano and micro turbine tech should also be useful.

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The only decentralized generation we have is Small Modular Reactors. Apart from minor instances of biogas, biomass, geothermal, solar/battery or small hydro. Those are trivialities. If you want a decentralized, localized power and/or energy grid SMR's are the only tech we have for that at the moment, at least until practical Fusion (i.e. not the scam ITER) like Focus Fusion or Helion Energy is developed.

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If they didn't have terrible wildfires what could they have to blame on Climate Change and therefore to justify the draconian abuses of our civil liberties they are initiating.

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Beyond that, I feel distributed energy solutions need to be examined and full long term risks and costs calculated as well. Biogas would have been a perfect solution for our small community, but we got harnessed with a huge debt on a deadend desal waste treatment scam. This has to stop. We got screwed big time.

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That's SMR's. Biogas can be used for bit applications but they are of insignificant scale.

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If you read the interview closely, Michael has absolutely no plan to break the low-density zoning housing monopoly in California. Because that would go against 'supporting the free market'. eg. property speculators and banks who finance his campaign.

If you read his responses closely, they're long on rhetoric and short on quantifiable numbers. The mark of a con-man and charlatan.

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