It takes a certain amount of gall to ask the country to follow your state’s lead on energy policy when your state currently has the nation’s highest electricity prices. But that is exactly what California Gov. Gavin Newsom did last week. Hopefully, voters will choose not to follow him.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Newsom correctly notes that, “more than two-thirds of California’s electricity now comes from clean sources such as solar, wind and geothermal.” He further brags that “roughly a quarter of new car sales are electric vehicles,” and that “Caltrain’s rail service connecting the Bay Area converted from diesel to electric, a key part of the state’s high-speed rail vision.”