# Xavier Becerra's Insane New Energy Proposal

An episode of [The John Phillips Show](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/824357555), 21 Oct 2026, 39 min.

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[0:45] Speaker 3: our local elected officials in California at johnnydontlike.com. Javier Becerra's
[0:55] Speaker 3: handlers think he's doing so well in this race that
[0:59] Speaker 3: they let him come out of his hidey hole to
[1:02] Speaker 3: do a one-on-one interview with ABC 10 in Sacramento. And
[1:09] Speaker 3: let's just say Javier Becerra's policy proposals are either so
[1:15] Speaker 3: weird they don't make any sense or they are severely
[1:19] Speaker 3: lacking in details.
[1:21] Speaker 4: Scrub it.
[1:23] Speaker 3: Let's hear what Becerra has to say about the cost
[1:26] Speaker 3: of housing, the cost of utilities, which is something people
[1:30] Speaker 3: in Los Angeles are freaking out about right now, and
[1:34] Speaker 3: the cost of gasoline.
[1:36] Speaker 1: For more, here is ABC 10 and Alex Bell.
[1:40] Speaker 5: I'm going to start with housing first. You have said
[1:43] Speaker 5: that you will declare a housing emergency on day one.
[1:46] Speaker 5: What would declaring that housing emergency actually do for Californians?
[1:50] Speaker 6: First, it would locate within the governor's office the team
[1:54] Speaker 6: that's going to start tackling this right away, working with
[1:56] Speaker 6: local government.
[1:57] Speaker 3: Wait, didn't Karen Bass, when she ran for mayor, say
[2:00] Speaker 3: the first thing I'm going to do is declare a
[2:01] Speaker 3: state of emergency on homelessness, and then there's going to
[2:03] Speaker 3: be no homeless?
[2:06] Speaker 1: Yeah, that doesn't really mean anything.
[2:09] Speaker 6: With the industry, one, we'll start to look at shot
[2:12] Speaker 6: clocks so people, the developers, will know how long they
[2:15] Speaker 6: have to wait to get their permits. We'll try to
[2:18] Speaker 6: reduce bureaucracy. We've tackled some of CEQA. We'll try to
[2:21] Speaker 6: do everything we can to not so much deal with
[2:24] Speaker 6: the substance, the protections that we want for our communities,
[2:28] Speaker 6: but the process, the things that drive length of time.
[2:32] Speaker 6: Time is money, so the things that drive costs up because.
[2:35] Speaker 4: It takes so long.
[2:36] Speaker 6: We'll try to make it so that that process, that
[2:39] Speaker 6: bureaucracy is pared down.
[2:41] Speaker 4: We'll also try to increase.
[2:42] Speaker 3: So we're not going to kill the bureaucracy, nor are
[2:45] Speaker 3: we going to get rid of the private right of
[2:47] Speaker 3: action that allows anybody to sue over anything... when it
[2:50] Speaker 3: comes to CEQA slowing down and making all kinds of
[2:53] Speaker 3: building more expensive. But don't you worry, Becerra is going
[2:57] Speaker 3: to deal with the bureaucracy.
[2:58] Speaker 1: The bureaucracy is real. Not a whole lot of specifics yet, huh?
[3:02] Speaker 4: Apply.
[3:03] Speaker 6: And this is where it's going to be really important
[3:05] Speaker 6: that folks vote for Prop 1, because Prop 1 gives
[3:08] Speaker 6: us the resources to get more than 40,000 housing units
[3:11] Speaker 6: that are actually ready to go.
[3:13] Speaker 4: Just they need a little bit of financing.
[3:16] Speaker 3: What exactly does that mean? So prop one is a
[3:20] Speaker 3: housing bond. And according to Bakari and he's been campaigning
[3:24] Speaker 3: on this, there's 40,000 homes ready to start production right now,
[3:30] Speaker 3: but we don't have any money for it. So the
[3:32] Speaker 3: state is subsidizing it. But what exactly is the taxpayer
[3:35] Speaker 3: getting out of it? Because you know what? We pay
[3:38] Speaker 3: for a lot of subsidized housing in the state of California,
[3:42] Speaker 3: in the County of Los Angeles, in the County of
[3:44] Speaker 3: San Francisco. And, um, Has it really made the cost
[3:49] Speaker 3: of buying a home or renting an apartment any cheaper
[3:53] Speaker 3: except for the people that are being subsidized? You know,
[3:57] Speaker 3: I watched the craziest video the other day. If we
[3:59] Speaker 3: have a slow day, maybe I'll play it for you
[4:01] Speaker 3: on here. But it's this woman, I think her name
[4:05] Speaker 3: is Yoon Kim, and she did a video on YouTube
[4:09] Speaker 3: talking about who actually lives in some of these rent
[4:15] Speaker 3: stabilization buildings in downtown Los Angeles that are being bought
[4:20] Speaker 3: up by developers who are taking people who live there
[4:24] Speaker 3: at a low fixed rent because of rent control, giving
[4:27] Speaker 3: them a big option of giving them like $ 10, 000 to leave.
[4:32] Speaker 3: So then they can raise that rent. And the thing
[4:35] Speaker 3: that's funny about it, because I don't think that was
[4:36] Speaker 3: the point of it, but every single person who lived
[4:40] Speaker 3: in the rent stabilized building on rampart that was covered
[4:43] Speaker 3: in this video is was on some kind of government subsidy,
[4:48] Speaker 3: whether it was some kind of student program, some kind
[4:52] Speaker 3: of other housing program. The only people that were getting
[4:55] Speaker 3: these apartments were people that were already on Section 8.
[4:59] Speaker 3: So if you think about that, we're supposed to have
[5:01] Speaker 3: rent control to keep the price of the apartments down.
[5:05] Speaker 3: But the only people getting the rent control units are
[5:08] Speaker 3: the people that are already on government assistance. And so
[5:11] Speaker 3: the people buying these buildings know that the government's going
[5:14] Speaker 3: to pay for two thirds of the rent. So if
[5:16] Speaker 3: they pay for someone to move out and then they
[5:18] Speaker 3: jack up the rent, the government will pay for someone
[5:21] Speaker 3: else to go in there.
[5:23] Speaker 1: Our system is a mess, everybody.
[5:25] Speaker 4: Prop 1 will make it possible for us to get
[5:27] Speaker 4: those shovels in ground. And so we'll do that.
[5:29] Speaker 6: Then, of course, we want to help people who want
[5:31] Speaker 6: to get into a home. And for most people who
[5:33] Speaker 6: are renting, they're essentially paying for the mortgage for the
[5:37] Speaker 6: owner of the property.
[5:38] Speaker 4: Why not get to be the owner yourself? The only
[5:41] Speaker 4: thing separating you from being the owner versus the renter?
[5:43] Speaker 4: Down payment.
[5:44] Speaker 1: Well, that's part of it.
[5:47] Speaker 3: It used to be that the only thing you would
[5:49] Speaker 3: think about is the down payment, but you also have
[5:51] Speaker 3: to think about property taxes. And when you buy a
[5:56] Speaker 3: home at today's rates and you buy a home at
[5:58] Speaker 3: today's prices, those property taxes get reevaluated and they go
[6:03] Speaker 3: up quite a bit. Not only that, you have to
[6:06] Speaker 3: think about the cost of insurance because your mortgage is
[6:10] Speaker 3: not just the payment. It is the insurance and the
[6:13] Speaker 3: property taxes, but sure. We're just going to help you
[6:16] Speaker 3: with the down payment with the mortgage. You already can't
[6:18] Speaker 3: afford by giving you a second loan just for the
[6:21] Speaker 3: down payment.
[6:23] Speaker 6: We'll expand those down payment assistance programs. So you can
[6:26] Speaker 6: actually buy the place where you live rather than just renting.
[6:29] Speaker 3: So, so far there's not any real specific plan, except
[6:33] Speaker 3: we're going to do a little more and all these
[6:34] Speaker 3: things that we're already doing that don't really work.
[6:38] Speaker 1: Okay.
[6:40] Speaker 3: Javier Baccaria, what else you got for us?
[6:42] Speaker 4: You know, as you just.
[6:43] Speaker 5: Mentioned, that a lot of your planet does depend on
[6:45] Speaker 5: speeding up approvals and holding cities accountable.
[6:47] Speaker 3: Hey, that's the name of our podcast. A new episode
[6:50] Speaker 3: premieres today at 3.
[6:52] Speaker 5: Well, how will you make that happen? Because obviously you
[6:55] Speaker 5: will need the legislature as well as local governments.
[6:58] Speaker 6: The way I did it when I was attorney general,
[7:00] Speaker 6: in some cases I had to sue some of the
[7:02] Speaker 6: local governments. Huntington Beach was refusing to deal with its
[7:06] Speaker 6: housing element.
[7:07] Speaker 1: Boy, here we go.
[7:09] Speaker 3: We're starting off with one of Gavin Newsom's first actions
[7:12] Speaker 3: as governor when Javier Baccaria was the attorney general. Suing
[7:17] Speaker 3: Huntington Beach because Huntington Beach, which is pretty much completely
[7:21] Speaker 3: built out, we need to level all the single-family homes
[7:24] Speaker 3: and put up apartment buildings full of subsidized housing. That'll
[7:28] Speaker 3: do it. And they sued Huntington Beach successfully. Has it
[7:33] Speaker 3: lowered the cost of housing in Huntington Beach?
[7:36] Speaker 1: It has not.
[7:38] Speaker 6: Its responsibility to provide housing to its people and to
[7:41] Speaker 6: be part of the California community. We sued them when
[7:44] Speaker 6: they decided they were above the law, and we proved
[7:47] Speaker 6: that they weren't. And we're going to do the same
[7:49] Speaker 6: thing to make sure that locals work with the state
[7:52] Speaker 6: to make sure we're producing the housing that we need.
[7:55] Speaker 5: Where should the line be between local control and the
[7:57] Speaker 5: state's need to build more housing?
[8:00] Speaker 6: You always want to give local communities the final call
[8:03] Speaker 6: but you don't want them to get in the way
[8:05] Speaker 6: of what is a statewide emergency, a statewide policy.
[8:09] Speaker 4: So Californians need a place to live.
[8:13] Speaker 6: We should make it so that every Californian has to
[8:15] Speaker 6: drive an hour to get to work and an hour
[8:17] Speaker 6: to get back home.
[8:18] Speaker 4: And so we have to have policy that coordinates. You
[8:20] Speaker 4: may live in Rangitukumanga in Southern California, but work in LA.
[8:24] Speaker 4: That doesn't help you. You may work in Davis in
[8:28] Speaker 4: Northern California, but live in Sacramento. We have to.
[8:32] Speaker 3: So you want all the people that enjoy living in
[8:34] Speaker 3: Rancho Cucamonga to live in downtown LA? People might want
[8:40] Speaker 3: to live out there by choice. You know, some people
[8:43] Speaker 3: commute because of cost and some people commute because, well,
[8:49] Speaker 3: it's not safe to live where you work. You know,
[8:54] Speaker 3: My family moved from the city of Los Angeles to
[8:57] Speaker 3: the burgeoning community of Santa Clarita in 1993, partially because
[9:05] Speaker 3: of what happened in L.A. in 1992. Also, they realized
[9:11] Speaker 3: they could move up there and put the kids in
[9:13] Speaker 3: public school, and it would be cheaper than having to
[9:16] Speaker 3: pay for the private school because, God forbid, let's just
[9:19] Speaker 3: say if I stayed in L.A. as a 7-year-old and
[9:22] Speaker 3: went to LAUSD, well, I don't think I'd be doing this.
[9:28] Speaker 6: Figure out how we can have policies at work. Local
[9:30] Speaker 6: government must coordinate with the state. But at the end
[9:33] Speaker 6: of the day, it's where you live is where the
[9:36] Speaker 6: control should be. We'll try to make that happen, but
[9:38] Speaker 6: we can't have the local's So you're not above.
[9:44] Speaker 5: Like you said, even presenting lawsuits to really make sure
[9:46] Speaker 5: that local communities are held accountable.
[9:48] Speaker 1: Okay, there it is again.
[9:50] Speaker 3: Look, we've been doing this for the past eight years.
[9:53] Speaker 3: Whether it was Becerra and then Bonta after him, we
[9:56] Speaker 3: have sued communities because they're not building enough housing. They're
[9:58] Speaker 3: not going for their housing. element and the arena and
[10:01] Speaker 3: all these stupid things that you hear. And we're doing
[10:04] Speaker 3: everything we can to accelerate the building. But even in
[10:08] Speaker 3: the places where everyone has said yes, like San Diego,
[10:11] Speaker 3: it hasn't lowered the cost of the rents and it
[10:15] Speaker 3: hasn't lowered the cost of the homes. And that could
[10:19] Speaker 3: be for a whole lot of reasons. Part of it
[10:21] Speaker 3: is because what we build is a whole bunch of
[10:23] Speaker 3: subsidized housing, which means it doesn't actually affect.
[10:27] Speaker 1: The market rate. But I don't know.
[10:29] Speaker 3: Maybe there will always be a certain price floor because
[10:32] Speaker 3: it's very expensive to live here because it's very desirable
[10:35] Speaker 3: to live here.
[10:36] Speaker 4: We'll make sure local communities are held accountable.
[10:38] Speaker 6: But we want to respect local communities.
[10:41] Speaker 4: And work together. Yes. Let them make the final call
[10:44] Speaker 4: possible because it's their community. They're going to be there
[10:46] Speaker 4: all the time. The governor doesn't live in each of
[10:49] Speaker 4: those communities. So you want those communities to figure it out.
[10:51] Speaker 4: But they're Californians.
[10:53] Speaker 6: They may be residents of that local town or city,
[10:56] Speaker 6: but they're Californians. We as Californians have to have a
[10:59] Speaker 6: policy that works for all Californians.
[11:01] Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
[11:02] Speaker 3: This might be unprofessional for me to say. As a
[11:05] Speaker 3: professional broadcaster That has been covering Southern California And California
[11:10] Speaker 3: news and politics For the last 20 years She dumb
[11:18] Speaker 3: If you were just voting Based on the intelligence of
[11:21] Speaker 3: the candidates Steve Hilton would win in a landslide But
[11:25] Speaker 3: of course We're in a tribal era So that's not
[11:29] Speaker 3: how we vote Let's.
[11:31] Speaker 5: Talk about utilities. You said that you do want to
[11:34] Speaker 5: lower electricity bills, of course.
[11:36] Speaker 3: Now, this is something that is top of mind for everybody,
[11:39] Speaker 3: whether you're dealing with skyrocketing PG & E bills in
[11:43] Speaker 3: Northern California, skyrocketing LADWP bills that are going on right
[11:48] Speaker 3: now in the city of Los Angeles that might be
[11:50] Speaker 3: the nail in the coffin for L.A. Mayor Karen Bass.
[11:53] Speaker 3: One of the other aspects of the cost of living
[11:55] Speaker 3: outside of your mortgage is your utility bill. And there
[12:00] Speaker 3: are people that right now with the spike in utility
[12:04] Speaker 3: prices that we saw earlier this month, that it was
[12:08] Speaker 3: more than their mortgage. And how exactly do you budget
[12:12] Speaker 3: for that if you're on a fixed income? And what
[12:14] Speaker 3: I don't understand about the spikes that we see in
[12:18] Speaker 3: utility prices is haven't we spent the last 20 years
[12:23] Speaker 3: transitioning to so much green energy, including so much solar
[12:28] Speaker 3: energy that We have so much that we can actually
[12:32] Speaker 3: sell it to other. We have to actually convince other
[12:34] Speaker 3: states to buy it because we produce so much clean,
[12:37] Speaker 3: green energy. How come the electric bills just keep going
[12:40] Speaker 3: up and up and up and up and up? A
[12:43] Speaker 3: little strange, isn't it?
[12:45] Speaker 5: What's the first thing that you would do as governor
[12:47] Speaker 5: to actually make that happen?
[12:49] Speaker 6: Well, we're going to have to tackle any number of
[12:50] Speaker 6: things when it comes to our electricity, electricity and our
[12:54] Speaker 6: utility bills.
[12:55] Speaker 4: But I will tell you, there's two things that we
[12:56] Speaker 4: have to do almost immediately.
[12:58] Speaker 6: One is we have to deal with this wildfire liability
[13:01] Speaker 6: that's upon us. We can't afford to have another situation where,
[13:05] Speaker 6: whether it's Altadena, Pacific Palisades, the Camp Fire, Paradise, all
[13:10] Speaker 6: these communities that have suffered the consequences of us not
[13:14] Speaker 6: having a real clear plan of action in how.
[13:17] Speaker 4: We deal with this.
[13:18] Speaker 3: So do you have one? Would you like to illustrate it?
[13:20] Speaker 3: Or are we just going to talk in generalities? Because
[13:22] Speaker 3: when he says wildfire liability, what that makes me think
[13:26] Speaker 3: he says is he's going to pick up where Gavin
[13:28] Speaker 3: Newsom left off and get the legislature to get over
[13:31] Speaker 3: the finish line, making sure that SoCal Edison and PG &
[13:34] Speaker 3: E aren't held responsible when their equipment starts a fire.
[13:38] Speaker 4: So one, deal with that.
[13:40] Speaker 6: So we have a structured approach to dealing with emergencies.
[13:44] Speaker 6: But two, let's start recognizing where we can save money.
[13:48] Speaker 3: All right, here we go. Are you ready? Open up
[13:50] Speaker 3: your wallets. Javier Baccaria is about to make it rain
[13:53] Speaker 3: and save you some cash.
[13:55] Speaker 6: That's why I proposed a policy that I called my
[13:58] Speaker 6: power hour.
[14:01] Speaker 1: The power hour? Oh, boy.
[14:06] Speaker 6: We today in California produce more electricity than we need
[14:11] Speaker 6: during certain parts of the day.
[14:12] Speaker 4: Why?
[14:13] Speaker 6: Because solar energy now has become so productive for us
[14:16] Speaker 6: so that during the daylight, We produce more electricity than
[14:21] Speaker 6: we need, and sometimes the utilities try to sell it.
[14:24] Speaker 6: They don't get somebody to pay them for it. They
[14:27] Speaker 6: have to actually sell it to somebody to take it
[14:29] Speaker 6: from us. Why sell it to some other state? Why
[14:32] Speaker 6: not leave it here? Let our families who are going
[14:35] Speaker 6: through a tough time paying their bills have a chance
[14:38] Speaker 6: to use that electricity.
[14:40] Speaker 4: I won't charge you a penny. If you use your electricity, let's.
[14:43] Speaker 6: Say, from 1 to 3 o'clock in the afternoon when
[14:45] Speaker 6: the sun is really bearing down.
[14:47] Speaker 1: Wait a second. Isn't that when we're all at work?
[14:53] Speaker 1: How does this work, Javier?
[14:56] Speaker 3: So from you're talking about struggling families where both parents
[15:00] Speaker 3: are probably working and the kids are at school, when
[15:03] Speaker 3: nobody but the cat is at the house, that's when
[15:06] Speaker 3: you can turn on all your appliances.
[15:11] Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm a professional.
[15:14] Speaker 3: I would never demean somebody who's running for public office.
[15:19] Speaker 3: That being said, she dumb. What is going on here?
[15:26] Speaker 1: All righty.
[15:28] Speaker 6: And we're getting a lot of solar energy. It's not
[15:31] Speaker 6: costing us money to let you use it. I'm giving
[15:34] Speaker 6: you a chance to charge up all your devices, wash
[15:38] Speaker 6: your clothes, wash your dishes.
[15:41] Speaker 3: All right, well, I'm going to have to let my boss, Art,
[15:43] Speaker 3: know that I have to go home at 1 o'clock
[15:45] Speaker 3: every day because that's the only time Becerra says I
[15:47] Speaker 3: can charge my car without getting ripped off. I don't
[15:51] Speaker 3: know if anyone's going to buy into the power hour.
[15:57] Speaker 3: It seems like with a lot of Javier Becerra policy proposals,
[16:03] Speaker 3: they are half-baked at best.
[16:07] Speaker 6: Do all the things you might otherwise try to do
[16:09] Speaker 6: late at night. You do it during those two hours,
[16:13] Speaker 6: we won't charge you a penny for it.
[16:14] Speaker 3: So you might do your laundry at night. Instead of
[16:19] Speaker 3: doing your laundry at night, You're going to need to
[16:23] Speaker 3: take a long lunch so you can go home for
[16:26] Speaker 3: that power hour to turn on the laundry and turn
[16:28] Speaker 3: on the dishwasher.
[16:32] Speaker 1: I'm sorry. This is not a real policy.
[16:38] Speaker 6: So that's one way to start bringing down the cost.
[16:41] Speaker 6: I know I can do that.
[16:43] Speaker 4: We're already seeing that done in other places. It's a
[16:45] Speaker 4: way to save you money.
[16:46] Speaker 6: And then we can grow from there other ways to
[16:48] Speaker 6: keep the cost of utilities down.
[16:51] Speaker 3: You can charge your phone from 1 to 3 p.m.
[16:54] Speaker 3: You can watch all the TV you want from 1
[16:56] Speaker 3: to 3 p.m.
[16:57] Speaker 1: Hey, wait, that's when this show is on.
[16:58] Speaker 3: You know what you could do with Javier Becerra's block
[17:01] Speaker 3: power hour? You can turn on every TV in the house,
[17:05] Speaker 3: turn them all to YouTube, put them all on the
[17:08] Speaker 3: John Phillips show, and blast them as loud as possible
[17:11] Speaker 3: because Javier is paying the bill. Does anybody think this
[17:17] Speaker 3: is a real idea to save Californians money? Or is
[17:21] Speaker 3: this nonsense that's not fully thought through from possibly the
[17:28] Speaker 3: dumbest person that we've ever had run for governor?
[17:32] Speaker 4: Scrub it.
[17:34] Speaker 3: When we come back, we'll hear what Javier Baccaria has
[17:38] Speaker 3: to say about the other thing that makes gasoline so,
[17:41] Speaker 3: excuse me, I just spoil it. The other thing that
[17:43] Speaker 3: makes the cost of living so expensive in California, gasoline.
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[19:36] Speaker 3: bumper sticker of this show, we will have one. We'll
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[19:41] Speaker 3: Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association talking about Prop 43. If you
[19:46] Speaker 3: go to yeson43. com, they will send you a free yard sign. Look,
[19:49] Speaker 3: we only to do our part. Susan's been so good
[19:52] Speaker 3: to us this year. The least we could do is
[19:54] Speaker 3: help get Prop 43 over the edge, get it over
[19:58] Speaker 3: the finish line. So all you need to do is
[20:01] Speaker 3: tell someone today in your life that yes on 43,
[20:04] Speaker 3: if they haven't voted, means it's harder to raise your taxes.
[20:08] Speaker 3: There's a lot of confusing things on the ballot. 43
[20:11] Speaker 3: is pretty simple. Yes on 43 means it's harder to
[20:15] Speaker 3: raise your taxes. We will be bringing that message to
[20:19] Speaker 3: the Bay Area when we take over Johnny Foley's Irish
[20:23] Speaker 3: pub Friday, October 30th from noon to three. And then
[20:27] Speaker 3: just a couple of days later, Johnny and I are
[20:29] Speaker 3: doing our live election special right here at JohnnyDon'tLike.com. It
[20:33] Speaker 3: will also be broadcast on the radio on 790K ABC,
[20:37] Speaker 3: 810K SFO, and the big KMJ in Fresno. But the
[20:41] Speaker 3: radio stations are only getting two hours of our live
[20:43] Speaker 3: election night special. We're doing at least three hours on
[20:47] Speaker 3: the video at JohnnyDon'tLike.com. We also have a brand new
[20:53] Speaker 3: episode of the Accountability Podcast premiering today at 2.59 p.m.
[20:59] Speaker 1: When I sign off the air.
[21:00] Speaker 2: Accountability, accountability, accountability.
[21:02] Speaker 1: And it is the long-awaited episode.
[21:05] Speaker 3: We recorded it a few weeks ago, had to do
[21:08] Speaker 3: a lot of editing and get all the smell out
[21:11] Speaker 3: of the film, but oh my goodness, it is finally
[21:14] Speaker 3: time to premiere John and Mai's adventure with our friend
[21:18] Speaker 3: Mike Netter at....
[21:20] Speaker 1: The Tijuana River Valley.
[21:22] Speaker 7: You can smell it right here.
[21:23] Speaker 3: We went down to Imperial Beach, and I can't wait
[21:26] Speaker 3: for you to watch this episode and see it and
[21:29] Speaker 3: smell it for yourself. It's the first time we're broadcasting
[21:32] Speaker 3: in Smell-O-Vision. All right, let's get back to Javier Baccaria.
[21:41] Speaker 3: So his plan for making it cheaper to live here is....
[21:47] Speaker 1: We don't really have one.
[21:48] Speaker 3: His plan for making it cheaper to use electricity here
[21:53] Speaker 3: is the power hour between 1 and 3 when you're
[21:55] Speaker 3: at work. Let's find out what his plan is for
[21:59] Speaker 3: the other thing that makes California so expensive compared to
[22:02] Speaker 3: everywhere else.
[22:03] Speaker 1: Gasoline.
[22:05] Speaker 5: Gas prices. I want to make sure we touch on this.
[22:06] Speaker 5: Californians are really feeling the cost of high gas prices.
[22:10] Speaker 5: What will you do to lower them as governor? And
[22:12] Speaker 5: I know that you said that you do not want
[22:14] Speaker 5: to suspend the gas tax. So what would you do instead?
[22:16] Speaker 6: Yeah, we will make sure we produce the gasoline that
[22:19] Speaker 6: we need so we can stabilize those prices so we
[22:22] Speaker 6: don't see them constantly going up.
[22:23] Speaker 1: But we're not doing that.
[22:25] Speaker 3: Right now, the majority of the gasoline in the state
[22:28] Speaker 3: of California is imported from other countries, which means we
[22:33] Speaker 3: are very, very, very, very dependent and have a lot
[22:37] Speaker 3: of issues when there's swings in the price because of
[22:40] Speaker 3: stupid wars.
[22:42] Speaker 4: We need to drive them down.
[22:43] Speaker 6: The best way to drive them down, get Donald Trump
[22:46] Speaker 6: to stop his unconstitutional war against Iran.
[22:50] Speaker 3: And how are you as governor going to do that? Look,
[22:55] Speaker 3: I'm in agreement with that war is stupid and that
[22:57] Speaker 3: war should have ended a hell of a long time ago.
[23:00] Speaker 3: But what exactly is governor Becerra going to do about that?
[23:05] Speaker 3: There is something that governor Becerra would have control over.
[23:08] Speaker 3: And that is the other $ 2 that is more expensive
[23:11] Speaker 3: than everywhere else. And that is the gas tax, which
[23:15] Speaker 3: is 60 cents. That is also cap and invest. Part
[23:20] Speaker 3: of the reason your gasoline is so expensive is because you,
[23:25] Speaker 3: every single time you fill up at the pump for
[23:28] Speaker 3: $ 7 a gallon if you have to fill up premium,
[23:31] Speaker 3: is you're subsidizing the construction of the non-existent high-speed rail.
[23:37] Speaker 1: But don't you worry. Becerra says we're going to build it.
[23:40] Speaker 6: The price of gasoline has gone up, what, about $ 2
[23:43] Speaker 6: a gallon as a result of Donald Trump going into
[23:46] Speaker 6: Iran in a reckless way. If we just had sane
[23:49] Speaker 6: policy coming out of Washington, D.C., our prices would be
[23:52] Speaker 6: about $ 2 lower.
[23:53] Speaker 3: But they're still $ 2 higher than everywhere else on top
[23:58] Speaker 3: of all that. And like I just said, what exactly
[24:02] Speaker 3: is Governor Bakaria going to do about ending the war
[24:07] Speaker 3: in Iran? It sounds like your gas prices are going
[24:10] Speaker 3: to stay $ 7 a gallon for a while.
[24:13] Speaker 6: Let's stop that craziness first and foremost. Secondly, let's make
[24:17] Speaker 6: sure that where we can produce it and we can
[24:19] Speaker 6: refine it, we do so so we have the supply
[24:22] Speaker 6: that we need so we don't see those constant spikes
[24:26] Speaker 6: in the price of gasoline. And then what we have
[24:28] Speaker 6: to do is continue that march towards those clean energies
[24:33] Speaker 6: that will keep us from polluting and also begin to
[24:36] Speaker 6: save us money.
[24:37] Speaker 3: When does that happen? We've been doing this transition to
[24:41] Speaker 3: a clean, green economy. Gavin constantly talks about how There's
[24:45] Speaker 3: more green jobs in Kern County than oil jobs now.
[24:48] Speaker 3: We're producing so much green energy in the state. Like
[24:52] Speaker 3: Javier just said, we're producing so much that he says
[24:55] Speaker 3: he could give it to you away for free at
[24:57] Speaker 3: 1 o'clock in the afternoon. But overall, the cost of
[25:02] Speaker 3: energy has skyrocketed in this state from everything. So at
[25:07] Speaker 3: what point does all this new technology make everything cheaper?
[25:12] Speaker 3: I'll tell you one thing. It's not going to be
[25:16] Speaker 3: as long as the energy monopolies control who's in the
[25:20] Speaker 3: governor's office. And I think we know which candidate is
[25:23] Speaker 3: bought and paid for by them because you want to
[25:25] Speaker 3: know what.
[25:27] Speaker 1: It used to be.
[25:27] Speaker 3: It was a very good deal for you to invest
[25:30] Speaker 3: in your home and get rooftop solar for your own
[25:32] Speaker 3: house because you could have your own house power to
[25:36] Speaker 3: not have to deal with these insane bills. And you
[25:38] Speaker 3: can even sell that excess electricity back to the utility.
[25:41] Speaker 3: But the utilities didn't like that deal because they weren't
[25:45] Speaker 3: getting a cut of it. So in the name of equity,
[25:48] Speaker 3: they got California to renege on 20-year contracts that people signed.
[25:53] Speaker 1: And what do you know?
[25:54] Speaker 3: Solar production has fallen off a cliff in the state
[25:57] Speaker 3: of California. There's more wind and solar being produced in
[26:01] Speaker 3: Texas right now than California.
[26:04] Speaker 6: As I said before, we now produce enough solar power.
[26:07] Speaker 6: that we can actually provide you with free energy time
[26:11] Speaker 6: in your home.
[26:13] Speaker 3: If you get dependent on Baccaria's power hour, what do
[26:16] Speaker 3: you do if it's raining and cloudy that day? Or
[26:19] Speaker 3: what if you live in a part of the state
[26:20] Speaker 3: where it's always cloudy, like San Francisco or Carmel-by-the-Sea?
[26:26] Speaker 6: On occasions, we can now begin to see the day
[26:29] Speaker 6: where we won't need gasoline as much as we do
[26:31] Speaker 6: not right now. But until then, whether it's gasolines or diesel,
[26:35] Speaker 6: we want to make sure that we can bring down
[26:38] Speaker 6: the price and stabilize it moving forward.
[26:40] Speaker 3: So, I'm sorry. I'm trying to pay attention to this
[26:44] Speaker 3: as best I can. And this is the third time
[26:46] Speaker 3: I've listened to this interview today. Was there a plan
[26:50] Speaker 3: to bring down the price of gasoline or not? It
[26:54] Speaker 3: sounds like there wasn't.
[26:57] Speaker 8: And why not cut the.
[26:57] Speaker 4: Gas tax quickly if you can? Who loves potholes?
[27:02] Speaker 6: Who wants to see a dangerous bridge collapse while they're
[27:05] Speaker 6: on it? You just think it would be counterproductive to
[27:08] Speaker 6: cut it? Well, we've got to pay for the repairs
[27:11] Speaker 6: and the construction.
[27:12] Speaker 3: Okay, because this is what Becerra says. And don't forget,
[27:15] Speaker 3: Javier Becerra, this is an old game of his. There
[27:20] Speaker 3: was a measure in 2018 to repeal this gas tax
[27:26] Speaker 3: that goes up with inflation in perpetuity every single year.
[27:31] Speaker 3: It got enough signatures. It qualified for the ballot. It
[27:35] Speaker 3: was a very simple proposition. If I'm not mistaken, it
[27:39] Speaker 3: was prop five and prop five would have repealed the
[27:43] Speaker 3: gas tax that was put on by the legislature. Javier
[27:48] Speaker 3: Becerra was the attorney general at the time. And do
[27:52] Speaker 3: you know what he titled the repeal the gas tax initiative?
[27:56] Speaker 3: I remember this very clearly. The Defund Roads and Bridges
[28:01] Speaker 3: Act But here's the math that you need to know
[28:07] Speaker 3: The gas tax That we have to suffer through Every
[28:11] Speaker 3: single time Not we, because I have an electric car
[28:13] Speaker 3: now But when my wife has to fill up And
[28:15] Speaker 3: she had to fill up today Oh boy It doesn't
[28:20] Speaker 3: raise that much money Especially because a lot more people
[28:23] Speaker 3: Have fuel efficient cars Or they are driving electric cars
[28:28] Speaker 3: The gas tax that makes California look less affordable than
[28:32] Speaker 3: every other state, including Hawaii, only has raised about $ 8
[28:37] Speaker 3: billion this year. California's budget, which is larger than ever,
[28:43] Speaker 3: is at $ 350 billion.
[28:46] Speaker 1: So I don't know.
[28:47] Speaker 3: It seems like you could wipe out the gas tax,
[28:50] Speaker 3: which would take 70 cents a gallon today as Tony
[28:54] Speaker 3: Strickland has tried to get that proposal going forever and
[28:56] Speaker 3: ever and ever. And you'd have plenty of money in
[29:00] Speaker 3: our massive bloated budget to cover the $ 8 billion of
[29:04] Speaker 3: road repairs. Also, I don't know about you. I drive
[29:09] Speaker 3: the roads of California. You drive the roads of California.
[29:13] Speaker 3: We have the most expensive gas tax in the nation
[29:16] Speaker 3: and our roads are, you know what they are.
[29:21] Speaker 1: Can't say that word on the radio.
[29:23] Speaker 6: Tell me how we pay for it. If you want
[29:24] Speaker 6: to see a decent road, a decent highway, safe bridges,
[29:28] Speaker 6: you want to have.
[29:29] Speaker 4: You know.
[29:29] Speaker 3: What the gas tax is paying for? This stupid project
[29:33] Speaker 3: on the 405 where they close it every other weekend
[29:36] Speaker 3: for 18 months to repave it. Because, you know, they
[29:40] Speaker 3: could have just done this all in one weekend like
[29:42] Speaker 3: they did with Carmageddon and people would avoid it. But no,
[29:46] Speaker 3: let's inconvenience anybody going to and from LAX every other
[29:50] Speaker 3: weekend for a year and a half.
[29:53] Speaker 6: Transit that works, you got to pay for it. And
[29:55] Speaker 6: the way we pay for it is through the gas tax.
[29:58] Speaker 6: It's crazy to say, You're going to get rid of
[30:00] Speaker 6: the gas tax and no longer do the repairs and
[30:04] Speaker 6: yet still have the price of gasoline higher than it
[30:06] Speaker 6: was before Donald Trump started his war in Iran. If
[30:10] Speaker 6: you want to really lower the price of gasoline, get
[30:14] Speaker 6: Donald Trump to stop his.
[30:14] Speaker 4: War in Iran.
[30:15] Speaker 1: So how are you going to do that, Governor Becerra?
[30:19] Speaker 4: Any idea?
[30:21] Speaker 3: Just empty rhetoric? So let's see. We've spent how long
[30:25] Speaker 3: with Becerra today? Eight minutes and 47 seconds. No real
[30:30] Speaker 3: plans on housing. No real plans on utilities outside of
[30:35] Speaker 3: the power hour. And no real plans on how to
[30:38] Speaker 3: lower gas prices. And this guy's up 25 points? What
[30:45] Speaker 3: is wrong with us? It's Randy Wang on the John
[30:51] Speaker 3: Phillips Show. It's the John Phillips Show. Johnny's on vacation,
[30:55] Speaker 3: but I'm here and the chat room's hanging out with me.
[30:58] Speaker 3: Keep me company at johnnydontlike.com and blast away at Baccaria.
[31:02] Speaker 3: It'll make you feel a little better about this election
[31:05] Speaker 3: by going to johnnydontlike.com and saying some choice words about
[31:10] Speaker 3: Baccaria's policies. Now, Javier Becerra had an idea for utility bills.
[31:16] Speaker 3: Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense.
[31:18] Speaker 1: The L.A.
[31:19] Speaker 3: Mayor's race has also been rocked recently by utility bills.
[31:24] Speaker 3: The October surprise in the L.A. mayor's race is when
[31:28] Speaker 3: every single voter in the city of Los Angeles opened
[31:31] Speaker 3: up their LADWP bill and saw that it was massively higher.
[31:37] Speaker 3: And yeah, we went through a heat wave, but still,
[31:39] Speaker 3: this is straight up price gouging from a municipal utility
[31:43] Speaker 3: that's supposed to be cheaper than SoCal Edison or PG & E. Well,
[31:48] Speaker 3: Karen Bass is doing damage control and trying to figure
[31:52] Speaker 3: out how to stay alive in this mayor's race while
[31:55] Speaker 3: people are freaking out with how expensive power is getting
[31:59] Speaker 3: from our corrupt utility. Here is KTLA. Sky-high utility bills
[32:04] Speaker 3: have residents outraged and calling for action.
[32:06] Speaker 1: Some say their bills doubled, even tripled, over this long,
[32:10] Speaker 1: hot summer.
[32:11] Speaker 5: LADWP and city officials are addressing those concerns. KTLA's Kimberly
[32:15] Speaker 5: Chang is live in West Hills with the latest.
[32:17] Speaker 4: Kimberly.
[32:20] Speaker 2: Some customers are outraged over these bills, some showing us
[32:25] Speaker 2: the bills that are ranging in the thousands of dollars.
[32:28] Speaker 3: I live in a small four-bedroom house in the San
[32:32] Speaker 3: Fernando Valley.
[32:33] Speaker 1: It is one story.
[32:35] Speaker 3: We traveled a lot this summer, and whenever we're not home,
[32:38] Speaker 3: we leave the house at like 75. I've been trying
[32:41] Speaker 3: to not keep the house too cool. Our bill for
[32:44] Speaker 3: the last two months was $ 2, 200.
[32:52] Speaker 8: I have a two bedroom, one bathroom.
[32:55] Speaker 2: And how much was your bill?
[32:57] Speaker 5: My bill is $ 5, 378.
[32:58] Speaker 4: 12.
[32:58] Speaker 5: Many are out.
[32:59] Speaker 2: Holy cow!
[33:04] Speaker 1: I guess I'm lucky.
[33:05] Speaker 2: Rage over high utility bills.
[33:07] Speaker 4: $ 2, 200.
[33:07] Speaker 5: It's just two of us in the house and a
[33:10] Speaker 5: small dog.
[33:11] Speaker 7: I mean, I barely run the AC.
[33:12] Speaker 6: I keep my AC on 78.
[33:14] Speaker 1: Oh, that is torture.
[33:15] Speaker 2: Reid posted a recent bill to social media, and it's
[33:18] Speaker 2: gone viral. He told me the cost for electric and
[33:21] Speaker 2: water for his roughly 2,500-square-foot home in West Hills has
[33:24] Speaker 2: increased year over year. But this bill made his jaw drop.
[33:28] Speaker 8: So I always know that the summer bill is going
[33:30] Speaker 8: to be pretty bad, but this time around it just
[33:33] Speaker 8: absolutely shocked me. It was $ 3, 322.
[33:37] Speaker 2: He says they've made renovations to their home to make
[33:40] Speaker 2: it more energy efficient, including installing a newer HVAC system
[33:44] Speaker 2: and pool pump. They upgraded their windows and added blackout shades.
[33:47] Speaker 1: And none of that helped with the price, huh?
[33:50] Speaker 3: It's almost like all of these investments in making our
[33:53] Speaker 3: homes more efficient, all of these investments in green technology,
[33:57] Speaker 3: aren't turning to cheaper electric bills.
[34:02] Speaker 8: I don't want to say mismanagement, but something is going
[34:04] Speaker 8: on where the rates have increased so much that it
[34:07] Speaker 8: doesn't seem... Like it's really tracking with inflation.
[34:10] Speaker 3: I would love to know where all the money that
[34:12] Speaker 3: D I would love to see. And it's one of
[34:14] Speaker 3: the thing that's in this campaign. Now it's Kenneth Mejia says,
[34:16] Speaker 3: I'm going to audit the DWP. Well, why aren't you
[34:19] Speaker 3: doing that right now, kiddo? Why do you have to
[34:20] Speaker 3: wait for Nithya to get in? But the DWP had
[34:23] Speaker 3: money to pay Janice Kenyon is $ 750, 000 to make sure
[34:27] Speaker 3: the fire hydrants were empty in the Palisades. The entire
[34:32] Speaker 3: infrastructure under the city of Los Angeles is crumbling and
[34:35] Speaker 3: there are water main breaks every single week for What
[34:38] Speaker 3: exactly does this department do with its money, and now
[34:42] Speaker 3: it's charging us even more?
[34:44] Speaker 2: He started a petition on Change.org called Cap the Heat Tax,
[34:47] Speaker 2: and so far they've gotten more than 30,000 signatures.
[34:50] Speaker 8: The petition is essentially us wanting to get L.A. Comptroller
[34:55] Speaker 8: Kenneth Mejia to do a forensic audit of L.A. DWP.
[34:59] Speaker 3: L.A.
[35:00] Speaker 2: DWP responded in a statement saying in part, while our
[35:03] Speaker 2: rates are lower than most other major utilities.
[35:05] Speaker 3: I don't think that's true either. My parents live in
[35:08] Speaker 3: Santa Clarita, and they have SoCal Edison. And I have
[35:12] Speaker 3: a lot of things to say about SoCal Edison, but
[35:14] Speaker 3: it's hotter there than where I live, and their bill.
[35:17] Speaker 1: Wasn't this crazy.
[35:18] Speaker 2: Los Angeles has just.
[35:19] Speaker 1: Now, my parents refused to turn on the air conditioning,
[35:22] Speaker 1: but that's a mental illness.
[35:24] Speaker 2: Experienced its hottest summer on record, and that can translate
[35:27] Speaker 2: into higher electricity usage. The LA City Controller also sent
[35:31] Speaker 2: us a statement saying, quote, my office is investigating and
[35:34] Speaker 2: has sent information requests to LEDWP. We're specifically interested in
[35:38] Speaker 2: understanding why certain rates have increased, how the tier structure
[35:41] Speaker 2: can trigger significant cost increases, and what more can be
[35:45] Speaker 2: done to assist customers.
[35:46] Speaker 3: Especially when the time the AC is going to be
[35:49] Speaker 3: used the most is during Javier Becerra's magical power hour
[35:52] Speaker 3: when it's really hot out and you have all this
[35:55] Speaker 3: solar collecting all this.
[35:56] Speaker 1: Energy for free, so... Why are they jacking up the
[35:59] Speaker 1: rates on us? This is a municipal utility.
[36:02] Speaker 3: They're supposed to be protecting us and not profiting off
[36:05] Speaker 3: us like those evil.
[36:06] Speaker 1: PG & Es. What's going on, DWP?
[36:10] Speaker 2: This is a hot topic in the L.A. mayoral race.
[36:13] Speaker 2: I've requested the DWP board to pause shutoffs. through the
[36:17] Speaker 2: end of the year for customers who are facing higher
[36:20] Speaker 2: bills following the record heat. Yes.
[36:23] Speaker 3: Karen Bass's plan as people are freaked out with how
[36:26] Speaker 3: expensive their DWP bill is, is, well, if you can
[36:29] Speaker 3: afford to pay it, pay it. And if you can't
[36:31] Speaker 3: afford to pay it, we won't shut off your power
[36:34] Speaker 3: until I get reelected. All right.
[36:41] Speaker 1: Dumber. Do you have a plan?
[36:42] Speaker 7: We need First and foremost is transparency on where these
[36:46] Speaker 7: costs are coming from. These bills have not been presented
[36:50] Speaker 7: to the council. We have not had a chance to
[36:52] Speaker 7: publicly discuss them. And when I am mayor, I will
[36:55] Speaker 7: insist that the DWP come before the council and justify
[36:59] Speaker 7: any rate increases.
[37:05] Speaker 2: And we've been talking with people throughout the morning. One
[37:08] Speaker 2: woman told me that her utility bill, this most recent one,
[37:12] Speaker 2: is actually more than her rent. So she is definitely outraged.
[37:16] Speaker 2: Reporting live in West Hills, Kimberly Chang, KTLA 5 News.
[37:19] Speaker 3: Look, I'm not sure what's going to happen in this L.A.
[37:22] Speaker 3: mayor's race, but it's not good if you're in the incumbent.
[37:26] Speaker 3: You have people that the two things in their mailbox
[37:29] Speaker 3: are a ballot that can vote you out and a
[37:32] Speaker 3: DWP bill that is insanely expensive. I mean, yeah, it
[37:37] Speaker 3: was hot here, but this is unbelievable. I don't think
[37:42] Speaker 3: it's going to do well. By the way, did you
[37:44] Speaker 3: see who Nithya was with over there? She was with
[37:48] Speaker 3: Lindsay Horvath because Lindsay Horvath endorsed Nithya for mayor. No
[37:54] Speaker 3: locking arms with Bass anymore. And Nithya has quite a
[37:59] Speaker 3: good catchphrase.
[38:00] Speaker 1: Excuse me.
[38:01] Speaker 3: Lindsay Horvath, who I'm not a fan of, has a
[38:04] Speaker 3: very good catchphrase for Karen Bass.
[38:07] Speaker 5: Enough of the excuses.
[38:09] Speaker 7: Enough of blaming everyone else.
[38:11] Speaker 2: Enough of the Bass lighting.
[38:16] Speaker 3: I am not a fan of Nithya or Karen Bass,
[38:19] Speaker 3: but I do have to say, Bass lighting is a
[38:22] Speaker 3: fantastic term because it's exactly what Karen Bass does. Even
[38:27] Speaker 3: if you listen to that interview she did with John
[38:29] Speaker 3: Kobelt on KFI yesterday, everything is the county's fault.
[38:34] Speaker 1: Everything is the city council's fault. Nothing is my fault.
[38:38] Speaker 3: That is how Karen Bass has operated as mayor, and
[38:41] Speaker 3: it's why she's probably going to lose. Hey, we've got
[38:46] Speaker 3: two more hours to go here. Susan Shelley's going to
[38:49] Speaker 3: join us when we come back and we'll talk about,
[38:51] Speaker 3: maybe we'll talk about utility bills. It's Randy Wang here
[38:55] Speaker 3: on the John Phillips show.

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