Sacramento gas prices are now a little below $3 per gallon for the most part. Enjoy this while it lasts. In 49 days AB32 regulations go into effect and will increase that price per gallon. You can read all about it in the bee. Today we’ll look at the price of gas at: Sinclair 4625 El Camino Avenue Sacramento, CA $2.89 per gallon of Regular Gasoline With Election Day now behind us we do remember something about Asm Ken Cooley protecting taxpayers...wonder if it will come to fruition in 49 days or will he turn into a pumpkin.
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When the Fix50 project was first announced, there was no question motorists throughout the Sacramento area would suffer long delays and bumper to bumper traffic.
But did you really expect this:
While we at CooleyWatch applaud the work of our CalTrans workers and contractors who are working as quickly as possible to finish this project, we cannot sit idly by and wonder...how we ended up in this position.
It's interesting just how bad and how rampant the lack of planning among our state agencies and departments really is. California is facing Bay Bridge construction problems. Moves in the CA Legislature to tweak covered California because of federal problems and their failure to really do anything at all to help veterans obtain benefits.
Annnd yet...California High-Speed Rail is still on track to move forward.
How many people commuting from Rancho Cordova will this project help...you got it...ZERO! How many people will it help once high-speed rail is COMPLETELY finished in 60 + years? ZERO!
Sorry to all who had to sit in that traffic...maybe not so for Asm Ken Cooley...but it's about time "PLANNING" took front and center stage for our state leaders rather than always just "REACTING" to problems.
Post Script
We will have some new posts coming soon with the results on the State Assembly Floor. This is a deadline week so the hundreds of probably pointless laws will be voted on and creating more headaches or press releases. Stay Tuned...
It’s Thursday and we have increasing gas prices and more traffic congestion on the horizon! It's mostly $4 everywhere around the county! Starting to pinch our wallets a bit.
Today we’ll look at the price of gas at:
Safeway
8377 Elk Grove-Florin Rd
Sacramento, CA
$3.95 per gallon of Regular Gasoline
(Don’t look at what some oil experts are saying about the price of gas in the near future.)
Be sure to check out this website as well to see just how your money is spent on the gas you purchase.
In an effort to support Dan Morain's column over at the Sacramento Bee, where he called for the release of questionnaires supporting or opposing candidates, we asked Assemblyman Ken Cooley to release his questionnaires for the endorsements he received. To date...he has still "disinclined to acquiesce to [our] request."
Being that as it may, we at CooleyWatch endeavor to bring you the latest questionnaire in our posession:
Assemblyman Ken Cooley's Rainbow Chamber PAC questionnaire.
Now mind you, Assemblyman Ken Cooley has not done well for small businesses in California since he was elected, but he has stood up for the LGBT community as evidenced by his grade of "B" (86%) voting record on issues important to Equality California. It should also be noted that this grade was given even though he didn't cast a vote in support of, or in opposition to, AB 1266, which was, and to quote Equality California:
Historic Transgender Student Bill: The School Success and Opportunity Act
How did Assemblyman Ken Cooley's business scorecards fair? Well we at CooleyWatch did an earlier post on his "grades" and you can read that here, but for quick reference, according to the following entities that represent small businesses in California:
California Chamber of Commerce - F
National Federation of Independent Businesses - D
Oh yeah there is the California Small Business Association, but we hardly feel this association really represents small businesses as per their own criteria which you can read in an earlier post we did here.
In case you missed our earlier post on Assemblyman Cooley's Questionnaires, you can read it here.
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It’s Thursday and with the fix50 project in full effect we have increasing gas prices and traffic congestion! It's mostly $4 everywhere around the county! Starting to pinch our wallets a bit.
Today we’ll look at the price of gas at:
EZ Stop
10501 Folsom Blvd.
Rancho Cordova, CA
$3.91 per gallon of Regular Gasoline
(Don’t look at what some oil experts are saying about the price of gas in the near future.)
Be sure to check out this website as well to see just how your money is spent on the gas you purchase.
U.S. Hwy 50, HOV Lanes, SCA 5 and Not Voting...Part 1
On November 7, 2006, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed, and California voters approved, a massive infrastructure bond package (Propositions 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E). The authorization allowed for $42 billion in general obligation bonds to rehabilitate California’s roads, bridges, classrooms, housing, levees and rail systems. Proposition 1B, the $19.9 billion transportation bond, was the catalyst behind the Sacramento Region’s continuing infrastructure overhaul of the U.S. Highway 50 and the Interstate 80 transportation corridors.
Breaking ground in 2010, the U.S. Highway 50 expansion has added 15 miles (7.5 miles eastbound and 7.5 miles westbound) of new bus/carpool lanes between Sunrise Boulevard and Watt Ave at a cost of the $108 million. Four years later, those of us living east of the capital city in Citrus Heights, Rancho Cordova, Folsom or the many unincorporated neighborhoods of greater Sacramento County, benefited from less traffic congestion, shorter travel times and better air quality thanks to the recent addition of the HOV lanes. We’ll have to wait and see if that holds true this week as W/X viaduct of U.S. Highway 50 undergoes a three month structural overhaul, Sacramento’s own “Carmageddon.”
California has long been the leader in recognizing the importance of reducing pollution from motor vehicles. In 2004, Assembly Bill 2628 created the “Yellow Stickers” program. The yellow stickers, seen on the bumpers of many of California’s early model hybrid vehicles, allowed single occupant access to HOV/carpool lanes. Limited to the first 85,000 applicants, the program ended in July 2011 and encouraged the development of new and other zero emission technologies. The “successor “green clean air vehicle sticker (Senate Bill 535) made eligible 40,000 vehicle stickers to the first owners or lessees of vehicles meeting the state’s vehicle requirements. Although set to expire in 2019, the availability of the green clean air vehicle sticker is set to run out five years before the program expires. Today, less than 1500 green clean air vehicle stickers remain and while the legislative fix did pass the State Assembly, it became a victim to the affirmative action backlash from SCA 5.
While AB 2013, introduced by Democrat Al Muratsuchi, is not yet a total loss in the CA Legislature, the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars spent on expanding freeways for HOV infrastructure appears to have may not have been such a practical investment. The Sacramento region has outgrown its transportation infrastructure and the addition of the HOV lanes was viewed as a practical, cost effective way to mitigate traffic congestion and air quality concerns. It can and has been argued that car pool (diamond lanes) restricts access from a majority of California drivers, each of whom have supported the construction of this infrastructure through gas/transportation taxes.
For a program set to expire, the region should have invested the $108 million by increasing transportation capacity for ALL motorists. Even more insulting for those enduring the construction and traffic delays that have stemmed from the HOV expansion of U.S. Highway 50 and Interstate 80, is the political gamesmanship that has accompanied a bill that had little formal opposition in two legislative committees before falling eleven votes short of passage on April 7th.
Several of our elected representatives from the Sacramento region, Dr. Richard Pan and Assemblyman Roger Dickinson supported AB 2013, while Assemblymember Ken Cooley was one of many members who chose not to cast a vote on that day. Why is this?
The bottom line on AB 2013 was that the bill existed as the legislative means of continuing a successful, incentive based program for Californians choosing to participate in the California Clean Air Vehicle Program. Purchase a qualifying vehicle and the purchaser is eligible for the clean air vehicle sticker. Nothing more and nothing less than that. However, to Assemblyman Cooley this apparently was not the case. According to the Sacramento Bee:
Six lawmakers who had supported the bill in committee reversed and withheld votes, effectively helping to doom the bill. Three are members of the California Latino Legislative Caucus and three are part of the California Legislative Black Caucus, two blocs that issued a joint statement vowing to push ahead with a recently shelved bill that would allow voters to weigh in on the state's affirmative action ban.
In total, 15 members of the black or Latino caucuses abstained from voting - more than enough to push the legislation over the finish line.
Now all this means very little now, since the bill has moved along to the State Senate, but it does illustrate one thing in the grand argument here...Assemblyman Ken Cooley didn't come out and say it directly, but there is no question that he believes in stronger affirmative action programs.
It’s Thursday and with the fix50 project in full effect we have increasing gas prices and traffic congestion! It's mostly $4 everywhere around the county! Starting to pinch our wallets a bit.
Today we’ll look at the price of gas at:
Valero
6825 Greenback Lane
Citrus Heights, CA
$4.03 per gallon of Regular Gasoline
(Don’t look at what some oil experts are saying about the price of gas in the near future.)
Be sure to check out this website as well to see just how your money is spent on the gas you purchase.
