Retired California House Speaker Willie Brown has
advice for a fellow Democrat: [bold added]
Gov. Jerry Brown’s big push to cut gas usage in California in half in the next 15 years was the wrong move aimed at the wrong targets: you and me.
It’s one thing to go after big businesses and utilities. It’s another to tell the state’s drivers that they’re going cut their gas consumption in half, without saying how you plan to do it.
The oil companies used the shortage of details in the big gas-cut legislation, SB350, to kick the life out of the bill, saying it would lead to rationing. No matter how hard the governor tried, he couldn’t counter the argument.
He gave them the club and they used it.
Climate change is important if you’re running for president. Transportation is the important thing for state voters. If you want to be an effective governor, you can’t just be out to save the world — you’ve got to fix the potholes as well.
On both counts, Brown hit the skids this time out.
As the old nursery rhyme goes,
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
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