by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor
As Appearing in the California Globe
Gov. Newsom is single handedly sending California into energy poverty, rather than economic and energy prosperity
What a difference a presidential administration makes.
In “Welcome to Saudi America,” economist Stephen Moore writes, “Thanks to the fracking and horizontal drilling revolution, the U.S. has retaken the lead in global oil production. In 15 years, domestic oil production has roughly doubled. So much for running out of oil.”
Indeed. The U.S. has retaken the lead in global oil production, no thanks to California.
It’s such a stark contrast and gross negligence that California Governor Gavin Newsom isn’t going full steam ahead on California’s fracking and horizontal drilling – oil and gas extraction, which has been safely used in the US since 1947. “More than 17 million U.S. wells have been completed using the fracking process, producing more than seven billion barrels of oil and 600 trillion cubic feet of natural gas,” the Independent Petroleum Association of America states.
Instead, these are the unfavorable headlines on the status of California’s fracking and horizontal drilling:
Fracking and Dangerous Drilling in California: Briefing Book from the Center for Biological Diversity, a leftist environmental non-profit focused on population control and opposition to nuclear power under the guise of “climate change.”
