"Cal is home to the Free Speech Movement, and its students generally hold the conservative views of Turning Point in disdain. But its very bright students, who are supposed to hold free speech in such high esteem, made a choice to ignore that right and impose a heckler's veto because of their inability to tolerate a conservative point of view."
"The mystery charge is not a mystery. Indeed, the charge exists, and it's big. Walters says it's 41¢ a gallon, and it cost us $59 billion between 2015 and 2024. However, the report he mentions, and gets those figures from, is from California's Division of Petroleum Market Oversight, and they attribute the charge to "higher gross gasoline industry margins." No mystery, and no surprise either."
Turning Point U.S.A. intentionally provoked Berkeley protesters, and those protesters responded by imposing a heckler's veto rather than defending free speech. Students at Berkeley, despite the campus's Free Speech Movement legacy and an avowed commitment to free expression, reacted to conservative views with intolerance, raising concerns about the future of free speech. California's cleaner gasoline and emissions controls have dramatically reduced smog despite more cars, and those environmental gains contribute to higher fuel costs. The so-called "mystery charge" reflects higher gasoline industry margins, with the report attributing $59 billion in costs from 2015 to 2024.
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