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Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Billionaire Tom Steyer chatted with Insider about the Biden agenda, Trump, and climate change. Steyer ran a brief, but costly campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Steyer led a long-running effort to impeach former President Donald Trump. In some other dimension, climate activist Tom Styer is president of the United States. There, he used his billions of dollars to out...

I may have a roof over my head but my kid won't go to college as long as i live in california. i'm not a tech guru. >> sandra: gas prices in california, $5 for a gallon of gas? >> they have these restrictions and president trump has been upset about this. cafe standards. corporate average full economy. it says each auto company should have an average amount of fuel per gallon their fleet gets. california wants different standards than anyone else. controversial for a long time. i found a piece from heritage in 1991. what's wrong with this cafe standard being too high? thousands of people will ...

Specific steps would you take in your first year regarding policies, funding, safe communities, jobs that would help mitigate the impact of climate change in your first year and then what would you want to have accomplished at the end of your first term if elected? >> first of all, we have to do is go back and turn back all of the changes that in fact the president has made from cafe standards to moving in the direction that we in fact deal with providing people who get displaced opportunities to have jobs by sending them back to school, by doing continued education. a whole range of things. i...

Prevent climate catastrophe. how will you prioritize climate change action if you become president? >> first of all, in defense of president obama, everything landed on his desk but locus. we were heading toward, we had the greatest financial catastrophe in the world short of a depression. nothing occurred like that before. it was getting america out of a ditch. we were in real, real trouble. we began a period of economic growth. he moved on on health care because he thought it was so important that it happened at the time. what from the beginning he also moved to deal with cafe standards, he ...

Of, $2.3 i think billion worth of, excuse me, $500 billion in savings and 2.something billion met trick tons of co 2 going in the air. we should do it across the board. we should -- i propose we have 500,000 charging stations in the new green economy. we should own, we should own the electric vehicle market. we should raise the cafe standards back to where they were that would save 12 billion gallons of oil to begin with and move beyond. i think we should be in fact doubling what we're doing immediately with regard to solar and wind. i would make sure that we -- and i'd go on from there but th...