California’s Impossible War on Oil and Gas

STATE LEADERS ARE SETTING AN EXAMPLE THAT THE WORLD—AND GOLDEN STATE RESIDENTS—CAN’T AFFORD TO FOLLOW.

Determined to save the world from climate change, California has nearly shut down its oil and gas industry, though the Golden State currently gets 50 percent of its total energy from oil and another 34 percent from gas. The state’s most recent move was a decision by California’s Geologic Energy Management Division to deny new hydraulic fracturing permit…