Gas prices in California may soon go up dramatically, as the California Air Resources Board aims to make carbon emissions restrictions stricter.
How would you like your gas to go up by 20, even 40 cents a gallon? That's what critics say will happen if members of the California Air Resources Board vote to strengthen the state's clean air rules, which they are set to do today, but which may take until tomorrow from all the speakers signed up to speak for and against the changes.
They've backed up from that, saying they don't really know what the cost would be; however, the state's nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office has said it could be up to 20 cents per gallon.Some state lawmakers, like Republican State Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, are asking the board to wait, saying residents cannot afford higher gas prices now.
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