How about a referendum to allow oil drilling and production off California's coast?

American Thinker: Republicans Could Tap a Gusher of Support Off the California Coast

Such as referendum campaign has quit a decent chance of succeeding, stereotypes of California as the land of liberals and greenies notwithstanding. Rising gas prices have devastated lower income Californians, a state where even the poor must drive to work and to shop. The state's rural Hispanics in particular are suffering economic deprivation, as are the rural poor nationally. Even in the coastal cities, commuters with long daily drives are quite sympathetic to an appeal that would lower their gasoline costs and generate revenue and perhaps avoid the 8 billion dollar tax increase the legislature's Democrats have proposed.

The citizens of California want relief from high gas prices, from threatened tax increases to pay for the state's colossal deficit, and relief from the ideological obstinacy of their own elitist politicians.