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In what has to be the most politically tone deaf hypocritical proposals yet California’s liberal Assembly want to add billion in new taxes on oil produced in the state. In November 2006 Californians voted down a so-called oil severance tax that would have added “$4 billion in new taxes on oil produced in the state with the stated goal to reduce petroleum consumption by 25%, with research and production incentives for alternative energy, alternative energy vehicles, and it was voted down 55-45%.

Now with a gallon of gasoline at $4.50 and headed higher the idea is being advance again by Assembly Democrats as a way to balance the budget while still spouting platitudes about energy independence, alternative energy, and the like but, it has nothing to do with anything other than filling the already engorged California coffers.

The new proposal is aimed mostly at preventing legislators from having their $130,000 annual salaries (the highest in the nation) cut. In an act of astonishing hypocrisy they are whining about being unable to pay for gasoline to drive to and fro from the state Capitol in Sacramento.

Governor Schwarzenegger jets around commuting almost daily to LA in a private plane so big his wife’s brother is trying to block it from landing at Santa Monica Airport fearing a catastophe. Arnold says he buys carbon credits for his gas gulper plane and Hummer - but that simply adds to his hypocrisy.