California, Oregon and Washington (also known as the Left Coast) are some of the most progressive parts of the United States.\u00a0 And one particularly rabid part of their agenda is green energy.\u00a0 They have been punishing the oil companies for anything and everything they could think of for more than the last twenty-five years.<\/p>\n
And now they\u2019ve succeeded in convincing the oil companies to get outta Dodge.\u00a0 That right.\u00a0 California used to be a large-scale extractor and refiner of petroleum.\u00a0 But those days are over and now the state no longer produces enough oil to cover the gasoline and other petroleum energy products it needs.\u00a0 And this is even worse for Oregon which has a very tenuous lifeline of gasoline that travels through a single pipeline.\u00a0 Oregon has literally zero oil refining capacity.\u00a0 Oregon\u2019s woman governor sent a letter to Shell Oil begging them to return to the state.\u00a0 She promised tax subsidies and protection from environmental harassment.\u00a0 They said no thanks.\u00a0 After losing money on all their ventures on the Left Coast they\u2019ve permanently moved on to working with the more lucrative LNG projects elsewhere on the planet.<\/p>\n
Now Washington state has a less dire situation but only by comparison.\u00a0 These states convinced themselves that electric cars and solar panels were the imminent future of transportation and energy production.\u00a0 But none of that turned out to be true.\u00a0 Now they\u2019ve realized late in the game that they\u2019ve chased away they petroleum industry and left themselves without the fuel stocks they need just to keep their economies running.\u00a0 Now isn\u2019t that special!<\/p>\n
So, what\u2019s my point?\u00a0 Well, basically I\u2019m just gloating.\u00a0 Schadenfreude is a large part of the pleasure for us on the Right, here in the era of Trump.\u00a0 I extract enormous satisfaction from watching morons like Newsom and Oregon\u2019s Governor Tina Kotek panic when they discover that fossil fuels still provide the power that keeps their fantasylands from collapsing back into the stone age.\u00a0 And that they\u2019ve effectively driven away the people who provide these extremely valuable resources.\u00a0 Listening to them beg grown-ups to give them another chance just does my heart good.<\/p>\n
If you watch that first video, you\u2019ll hear that Oregon predicts that if there is a pipeline problem anytime soon $9-$12 a gallon gasoline will be very likely.\u00a0 Now think about what that will do to the cost of living.\u00a0 All I can say is it couldn\u2019t happen a nicer bunch.<\/p>\n
Alright, I guess that\u2019s enough gloating for now.<\/p>\n