California is rich in natural resources that previously fed the state: natural gas fields in the Monterey Shale Formation; geothermal energy, abundant rivers and waterways such as the San Joaquin River Delta and hydroelectric dams; the Pacific coast; 85 million acres of wilderness with 17 million of those used as commercial forests; mines and mineral resources, vast agricultural and agricultural lands, and hunting and fishing.
But California politicians and designated agency officials, under pressure from radical environmental organizations and pressure groups, decided to ignore energy-producing natural resources and instead move to a fully-fledged grid and power. ‘only “renewable energy” approved: solar and wind energy. or “shop fuels.”
The push by environmentalists and the left to undo California and the United States from oil and gas is real, and it is intensifying under the guise of “climate change.”
However, only 1% of Americans say “climate change” is the most important issue in the country.
It was only in December 2018 that the United States exported more oil than we imported, for the first time in almost 70 years. This is called energy independence. Gas was $ 3.62 per gallon. And it didn’t go through the last 50 years of dubious federal “energy programs” that heavily regulated oil and gas, while promoting alternative energies, but in spite of them.
For decades, elected leaders and environmentalists have placed the myth of energy scarcity instead of promoting energy development.
In 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to phase out the sale of all gasoline vehicles in California by 2035.
In 2018, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation to block the Trump administration’s plans for new offshore oil drilling in federal waters off the Pacific coast. Prior to the Trump administration, Brown asked President Barack Obama in 2016 to permanently ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in the state before he left office.
Brown also tried to ban internal combustion engine vehicles in California in 2025, which Newsom happily advanced through an executive order.
On Wednesday, President Biden drove to Massachusetts in a long caravan of black SUVs and declared that the threat of climate change had reached the “red code for humanity.” “This is an emergency and I will look at it that way,” the president said. “I will use my executive powers to fight the climate crisis in the absence of congressional action.”
Ironically, these oil critics are always successful beneficiaries of the U.S. free enterprise system. Environmentalists will make everyone believe that it is immune to the lifestyle supported and supplied by oil, gas and oil. But no one lives an existence without oil.
The relationship between oil and gas, and humans, is inextricably linked. As a nation’s economy grows, its oil consumption naturally remains the same.
Would America be a better place without the “big oil” and gas industry?
Oil is the only source of energy that has lifted people out of poverty and given us unimaginable products and services, along with the ability to travel.
Driven by technological advances largely funded by oil companies, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions have dropped so dramatically that the number of “bad” air quality days in Los Angeles, for example, it has shrunk by two orders of magnitude.
With oil extraction through horizontal drilling and fracking, the United States achieved energy independence and would have become a net exporter of oil and gas by 2025 if the Biden Administration did not close fracking and the Keystone Gas Pipeline. .
When Donald Trump was president, California produced more than 200 million cubic feet of natural gas in 2017 used for heating and cooking in homes and businesses and to generate electricity.
The Utica Shale, which is located at the base of much of the northeastern part of the United States, is said to contain the richest natural gas and crude oil fields in the country. With the excavations in Bakken Shale of North Dakota alone, enough gas had been discovered to continue for future generations.
California is at the top of the Monterey Shale Formation, a 1,700-square-mile oil shale formation primarily in the San Joaquin Valley that contains about 15 billion barrels of oil. The Monterey Shale Formation is a larger resource than the Utica Bakken Formation and the Texas Eagle Ford Formation, combined, and is one of the largest known recoverable oil and gas fields.
However, the oil and gas industry is one of the most taxed and highly regulated industries.
Petroleum products are found everywhere in modern society and include transportation fuels, home and heating oils, electricity generation oils, asphalt and road oil, and the raw materials that they are used to make chemicals, plastics and synthetic materials found in almost everything we use today.
Here is a partial list of the vast catalog of products and material goods made possible by oil and gas:
Let’s do a little quiz about the so-called ecologists:
Do environmentalists use Ziploc bags? Do they use toilet paper? Do environmentalists wear Nike? Or use the iPhone? Or do you have cats and dogs, leashes, poop bags and buy special dog food? Do the so-called “ecologists” cook with Teflon pans? Do they drive automobiles, many of which use batteries and some with gasoline-fueled engines?
Environmentalists work for the city, county and state, and receive benefits from CalPERS, which has investments in the oil and gas industry? They do.
Do environmentalists take advantage of government services such as water, sewer, gas and electricity? Do they have central heating and air conditioning in their homes, condos, mountain cabins, golf course homes and coastal beach getaways?
Let’s assume that environmentalists buy fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, and household staples from large supermarkets as well as from air-conditioned, oil-and-gas-fueled neighborhood markets.
Environmentalists buy products from China; if they shop at Target, Home Goods, TJ Maxx, Lowe’s, Home Depot, Marshall’s, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Costco and small shops. Imagine how much oil and gas China uses to produce these products.
Thanks to the oil and gas industry for our comfortable lifestyle.
