{"id":258277,"date":"2026-04-08T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258277\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:16:08","slug":"want-to-cut-soaring-energy-costs-emulate-china-says-rep-jim-costa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258277\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Cut Soaring Energy Costs? Emulate China, Says Rep. Jim Costa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GV Wire Publisher Darius Assemi interviewed Rep. Jim Costa (D-Fresno) on Wednesday morning about rising energy costs, including gas and diesel, and the economic harm to Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Costa said that he doesn\u2019t see oil prices dropping anytime soon, even with the ceasefire in Iran, thus keeping gas, groceries, and other household expenses high.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve significant reductions, Costa said, the U.S. must move away from an overreliance on fossil fuels and use all energy sources. He pointed to China as an example of a country that is rapidly expanding its energy portfolio.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280\u00d790-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280x90-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GV Wire Publisher Darius Assemi interviewed Rep. Jim Costa (D-Fresno) on Wednesday morning about rising energy costs, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-258277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}