by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor
As Appearing in the California Globe
Is California on the precipice of social and economic collapse?
“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” ~ Sun Tzu
Nearly two weeks ago President Donald Trump announced he was invoking the Defense Production Act, and ordered the override of California laws blocking the restart of offshore oil production and the Santa Ynez Pipeline System to restart an oil pipeline project off the Santa Barbara coast, in the name of the “National Defense Resources Preparedness.”
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright directed Sable Offshore Corp. to restore operations of the Santa Ynez Unit and Santa Ynez Pipeline System to address supply disruption risks caused by California policies that have left the region and U.S. military forces dependent on foreign oil.
While California’s governor and Democrat-dominated Legislature have ignored the oil and gas crisis they have inflicted on California, oil experts have been warning that California’s faux “climate crisis” was leading to gas and oil shortages, dramatically increasing gas prices and energy costs, and a national security crisis.
We’ve been talking to the experts and warning for years, that California’s push to ban gas powered automobiles in favor of electric vehicles and an all-electric energy grid was not only preposterous, it would lead to potential economic collapse.
Chevron CEO Andy Walz was also warning of the impending crisis, as recently as September.
