"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. If these intelligent people are able to abandon their core beliefs because they dislike conservatives speaking their minds, how much chance does free speech have in our society?"
"Most of the cause is really our clean air. Growing up in SoCal, I choked on car smog. Now, even with tremendously more cars, there's tremendously less smog. Cleaner gas is why. 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."
Turning Point U.S.A. appeared at UC Berkeley and protesters reacted rather than remaining peaceful. Berkeley students who once championed free speech imposed a heckler's veto against conservative speakers. That intolerance signals a threat to broader free speech protections if principled commitments can be abandoned over disagreement. California's high gasoline prices reflect clean-air requirements and higher gasoline-industry margins. Southern California smog has decreased substantially despite many more vehicles because gasoline is cleaner. The so-called "mystery charge" corresponds to higher gross industry margins estimated at $59 billion for 2015–2024, contributing significantly to consumer gasoline costs.
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