Gavin Newsom can’t prove price gouging at the pump but wants new refinery law

It’s time to blow the whistle on the farcical efforts of California’s politicians — especially Gov. Gavin Newsom — to reduce the state’s high gasoline prices. Newsom’s demand that the Legislature, which adjourned for the year in early September, reconvene in a special session on gas prices continues his crusade against the oil industry, charging it with price gouging. However Newsom has never offered any persuasive evidence of such behavior, nor has it been confirmed by those who have seriously examined the factors that cause California gas prices to be...