So do I. Also the only time I had an outage in 25 years was due to equipment failure and, there also was a planned maintenance. It never took longer than a couple hours.

Grocery bags cost like what? 50 cents? It encourages having reusable bags which are more practical anyway and don't break as often.

As for gas, this is a problem with location. On one side we have ocean on the other we have mountains. This causes pollution to be trapped.

This is why Los Angeles was infamous for its smog in 70s and 80s. Catalysts and specifically refined oil helped being it back to healthy levels.

Also I don't get the obsession with the gas. If you look at prices the gas prices were static for nearly 15 years. It is ridiculous that this is still an argument to anything.