When you order something on Amazon, when a small business is buying product to put products on their shelves, when grocery stores are trying to get products into the stores, when you're trying to buy gasoline — all of those things come through either the port or it comes through some type of mechanism through a ship.
Explaining how shipping costs affect consumer prices.
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You have shipping companies that have paid hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties, if you aggregate it all. And as this goes on, this could ripple throughout the United States.
It's a massive hidden climate tax that's being imposed on every single ship that's coming into California. And so all of those costs now are getting passed on to consumers.
In California, we are all too familiar with the devastation caused by wildfires.
“In California, we are all too familiar with the devastation caused by wildfires,” Rep. Fong said.
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