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Don’t Tread on Me

By Justin Shores

Aug 26, 2026
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Californians Holding on by a Tread

And the Newsom administration keeps tightening the screws while people vote with their feet.

The California Energy Commission just dusted off a 23-year-old law to restrict which replacement tires you can buy. Commissioner Nancy Skinner, a former state senator with zero energy background appointed …

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