Years of Media Climate Propaganda = Climate Change Fatigue

Exactly two years ago, as Chevron Oil company announced that it was moving its headquarters to Houston Texas from San Ramon California, California Energy Commission regulators announced proposed government controls of the petroleum industry, ostensibly in order to combat future energy price surges, according to a report released August 1, 2024 by the CEC.

Despite California’s radical and very accelerated green agenda which does not include oil and gas as fuels, the CEC fully expects some of California’s nine oil refineries to be shuttered due to falling demand, which would give the remaining refineries increased pricing power and raise the possibility of a surge in gas prices, the study said.

You read that right – the California Energy Commission proposed a state takeover of oil refineries in August 2024. Venezuela, anyone?

The climate change agenda was really just an attempt at a climate pandemic – an excuse to shut down parts of the country and the economy for power and control. But the masses never bought in, and now, climate journalism is sputtering out. Master Resource reports that Belle de Jong, environment editor at The European Correspondent, recently posted on social media:

“Climate journalism is shrinking, this recent Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard piece shows. CBS lost its entire climate desk, the Washington Post cut 74% of its climate team, and NPR laid off its climate desk editor. The Media and Climate Change Observatory’s 2025 year-end analysis showed a 38% reduction in global media’s climate coverage in 2025, since the high-water mark of 2021.”

The public has climate fatigue. From ice age hysteria in the 1970’s to global warning fear mongering in the 2000’s, to the catch-all “climate change,” the people know that weather changes, and when it does, shouldn’t double and triple their energy bills.

The Daily Wire reports that 15 blue states Attorneys General have petitioned the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to keep permitting slow, tangled, and expensive, calling the Trump administration FERC reform a threat to “ratepayers.”

“That’s the pot calling the kettle black. The other state AGs who are joining this letter — California, New York, Maryland, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Vermont, and the want-to-be-state Washington, D.C. — have no credibility on this topic. FERC should recognize that they represent a who’s-who of the nation’s highest electricity prices. Just ask their own ratepayers how ‘protection’ is working out for them.”

The Trump administration, upon taking office in January 2025, declared an energy emergency and ushered in orders to accelerate domestic production by streamlining the approval process for infrastructure projects that improve existing systems.

California has highest-in-the-nation gas prices and the highest energy costs, which have increased 50% since 2019 according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. The blame for the 50% increase in energy costs according to the LAO is California’s “ambitious climate‑related goals,” “intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation and help the state meet its larger climate goals.” This severely affects electricity prices.

“Oil is more than just gas stations,” Hector Barajas reported at the Globe. “It powers transportation, fuels manufacturing, supports agriculture, and keeps supply chains running smoothly. It’s found in nearly every product we use, from the food on our tables to the clothes we wear.”

“When oil prices increase, those rising costs ripple through every sector of our economy, leaving the public to foot the bill.”

Instead of making life more affordable for Californians by producing more of our own energy, and using our own resources to bring down costs and build a more affordable future for everyone, California’s lawmakers continue to push for unrealistic “green energy” mandates. They restrict our car choices, and force many people summer and winter to live uncomfortably because of high heating and cooling costs. President Trump’s U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright promised  that his first order of business would be to make energy affordable, reliable and secure for all Americans first.

As the Globe has asked numerous times, “Where is California’s severe air pollution? Who in California is experiencing climate change?”

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has vowed to “get out of the way” of coal, oil and gas, and called the UK’s 2050 net zero target “a sinister goal” that would “impoverish” people.

He also downplayed the threat from extreme weather, and suggested that climate action is part of a plot to “grow government power” and “shrink human freedom.”

Yet, California residential electricity rates rose about 59.1% over the five years since 2020, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration annual data through 2025, on top of already ranking among the highest in the contiguous U.S.