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As gas prices broke historic records across the country Tuesday, the governor told Californians that he was working on a potential rebate to offset the rising costs.

During his State of the State address, Newsom said that no one is naive about high gas prices and the uncertainty surrounding them.

California's gas prices, which are among the highest in the country, soared above the national average on Tuesday as President Biden announced energy sanctions on Russia in response to the country's invasion of Ukraine. According to the American Automobile Association, the state's prices were the highest in the country's history.

It is clear that we have to go further, as he acknowledged that he and his colleagues had already proposed a pause to the state's gas tax increase in January.

Despite his commitment to offering some relief at the pump for Californians, the governor stressed that we cannot repeat the mistakes of the past by embracing polluters.

In the past few years, we have seen whole communities nearly wiped off the map.

California will need to accelerate clean technology development as well as maintain its dominance in electric vehicle sales and manufacturing to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

One way to help bolster that effort would be bytapping one of the world's largestlithium reserves in the state's Imperial Valley, which would secure a critical component of the supply chain for batteries.

The speaker of the California State Assembly echoed the governor's calls to continue tackling climate change.

The overwhelming challenge we face is climate change. We have to speed up our efforts to adapt to the changes happening in our state. We need to develop ideas to reduce our state's staggering inequalities.

The State of the State address was slammed by the Republican National Committee as a tone-deaf pep talk.

California is more dangerous, more expensive, and more crisis-ridden than ever before, according to the RNC.

The California way is a key instrument in both fighting climate change and strengthening democracy as authoritarian, illiberal impulses plague both the U.S. and countries around the world.

California does democracy like nowhere else in the world, and it means rejecting all binaries, according to the governor.

We are plagued by the agents of a national anger machine fueling division, weaponizing grievance, powerful forces and loud voices stoking fear and seeking to divide us weaken in the institutions of our democracy.

This is a threat that we must all face together and prove that there is a better way.

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