Sweet potato farm. (Photo: Katy Grimes for California Globe)
What California Could Be if Our Politicians Loved the State and its People
Powerful people don’t want to hear that they’ve made ‘trillion-dollar mistakes’
By Katy Grimes, July 14, 2025 2:55 am
Just imagine if the California Governor and California Legislature loved California as much as the people do. Imagine if they also loved the state’s abundant natural resources, rather than imposing harsh restrictions and locking them away.
California is rich in natural resources which once powered the state: natural gas deposits in the Monterey Shale formation; geothermal energy, abundant rivers and waterways such as the San Joaquin River Delta and hydroelectric dams; the Pacific coastline; 85 million acres of wildlands with 17 million of those used as commercial timberland; mines and mineral resources, vast farming and agricultural lands, and hunting and fishing.
But California politicians and appointed agency officials, under pressure from radical environmental organizations and lobbyists, decided to ignore the energy producing natural resources, and instead move to an all-electric grid, and the only approved “renewable energy:” solar and wind energy.
And they punish those who seek to restore all of this abundant natural energy.
The only conclusion is that California’s politicians are not working for the people of the state; they are working on behalf of the “green” lobby, deceitful philanthropists, corrupt and connected corporate interests, and even foreign entities.
At times when much of California has been on fire, Gov. Gavin Newsom shamelessly blames climate change.
“The hots are getting hotter, the dries are getting drier,” Gov. Newsom claims, “something happened to the plumbing of the world. Climate change is real and exacerbating this.”
Gov. Newsom is lying with impunity.
“Supplying 80% of the world’s primary energy, coal, oil and natural gas make up the lifeblood of modern civilization,” Vijay Jayaraj writes at Watts Up With That and RealClearMarkets. “Yet, there continue to be calls for the abandonment of these fuels without any feasible, scalable replacement in sight.”
“Consensus” on climate change has become a form of bullying, intimidation and censorship—which is exactly what Julie from Canada tried to do here,” I wrote in 2024, answering a climate cultist’s vitriolic email. “It has been used to bludgeon and attack the character of anyone who questions the very shallow claims. It is a cult completely divorced from science and reality. And the larger problem with these climate change cultists is they lack humility, and any interest in self-reflection.”
In an interview with Vickie Davis, Lies are Unbekoming Substack reported, “international frameworks infiltrate local decision-making, turning city councils and neighborhood associations into pawns of a global agenda. …shifting wealth from the middle class to a technocratic elite through tools like carbon trading and green bonds, as outlined in her book’s analysis of Agenda 21’s goals. Her message was simple yet urgent: what looks like progress is often a mask for control, and the stakes are nothing less than our democratic sovereignty.” (read the entire interview here)
Explaining how dishonest it is for “green” lobbyists “to claim that electricity from wind and solar can replace fossil fuels, when currently most of the energy used in the world is not even in the form of electricity,” Jayaraj continues:
“Electricity represents only about 20% of global final energy consumption. That means four-fifths of the world’s energy use comes from fuels that power ships, planes, trucks and industrial furnaces. Oil fuels vehicles, natural gas provides heat for homes and industry, and coal is critically important for the manufacture of steel from iron.
Demand for hydrocarbons is expected to exceed that of electricity for many decades.”
In 2024, 1,600 actual scientists wrote a letter to the California Air Resources Board: “There is ‘NO Climate Crisis’” the scientists said in the letter. In fact, the scientists find that “California is in no danger of unusual drought: The annual precipitation in California has fluctuated greatly over the last 150 years, with only a slight decrease.”
The CO2 Coalition’s letter was particularly timely with Gov. Gavin Newsom taking his climate change road show to the Vatican in May 2024 where he was invited to speak by Pope Francis at a Summit of mayors and governors. The Summit, which was held May 15th to May 17th, covered “the impact of rising temperatures” in local communities, and “climate resilience.”
Dr. Jim Enstrom, one of the letter’s signers, told the Globe that one of the most prominent signers was 2022 Nobel Laureate John Clauser, who described the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as “one of the worst sources of dangerous misinformation,” and was disinvited to speak before the U.N.’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) on July 25, 2023. “The physicist believes that objective science on climate has been sacrificed to politics. The preeminence of politics is all the worse, he said, because so much money has already gone to climate,” the CO2 Coalition said.
“We’re talking about trillions of dollars,” he said, adding that powerful people don’t want to hear that they’ve made “trillion-dollar mistakes.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom already finds himself in a similar place – that of multi-million to billion dollar mistakes – with his very public attacks on California’s oil and gas industry.
Governor Newsom Takes Action to Phase Out Oil Extraction in California by 2024, Newsom announced. “California will work to end oil extraction as part of nation-leading effort to achieve carbon neutrality. Action will halt issuance of fracking permits by 2024,” Newsom said. Additionally, Governor Newsom requested that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) analyze pathways to phase out oil extraction across the state by no later than 2045.
Remember Newsom’s climate grift:
Gov. Newsom signed a package of “sweeping legislation” in September 2022 to achieve statewide carbon neutrality as soon as possible, and no later than 2045, by establishing an 85% emissions reduction target, capping oil wells, slowing oil and gas permitting, making it impossible to increase refining capacity, and entirely phasing out oil and gas starting in two years.
That “sweeping set of laws” Newsom touted was 40 new climate change bills regulating California businesses and its people.
Chevron is leaving the state, and Phillips 66 and Valero are closing refineries because of the governor’s destructive regulations and policies against the oil and gas industry.
As governor, Newsom is sending California into energy poverty, rather than promoting economic and energy prosperity by attempting to annihilate the oil and gas industry.
A 2025 report from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) Institute for Applied Economics – Oil and Gas in California: The Industry, its Economic Contribution and Major User Industries – found that California’s oil and gas industry provides 536,770 total jobs in California and 148,140 Californians are directly employed by its individual companies—along with the $338 billion total economic contribution to California’s economy. Those numbers are something we all should feel proud of.
Oil and gas delivers $23 billion in annual wages and benefits to oil and gas workers in the Golden State, and $53.4 billion in wages to all workers supported by the industry.
This isn’t at all about climate change – that’s just the regulatory “catch-all.” The “green” agenda is about power and control. It is evil, not virtuous.
A California native and Navy mom, Katy lives in Sacramento, CA.
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Katy, your article describes in great detail the endless potential of Californias natural resources. Also, one can conclude from your article that there is no such thing as a benevolent authoritarian (just ask the guy trying to buy a new gas-powered leaf blower). Throughout history tyrants have been able vilify various racial people groups in order to motivate subjects to accept their crazy reasoning and to initially give them power. Here in California our tyrants have vilified energy and the cheap mass production of it as a means of controlling us and have taken the steps of making us all slaves of the state controlling just about every activity of basic life. But just as in days of old the current generations eyes are opening up to the modern-day version of tyrants wanting to control every aspect of life. Once these current tyrants have been removed, we can go back to properly managing the resources that California has been richly blessed with. California will once again become the envy of the nation and the world.
I hope you’re right, Hal, but I’m not sure it’s gonna happen anytime soon… those corrupt Democrats will do anything, and I mean ANYTHING, to hold onto their power…..
How long have we been battling this destructive “global-warming-then-climate-change” foolishness? Years now, even decades. The scientific arguments matter little in the end, aside from being an important factual historical record. It seems to me that a couple of common-sense arguments, made by everyday people who are not even scientists, easily show up this hoax as a total lie and have from the beginning. And yet the hoaxers persist, and are successful.
Because here’s the thing: Whether it’s climate change or Covid, the only action the corrupt “leadership” has to take is to instill fear, even panic, into the most gullible sector of any population. Either by saying “half the population of California will get Covid,” as Newsom did in 2020 (implying half would die, which was the idea at the time, I remember it well), or putting out a very scary “global warming” apocalypse movie, as Al Gore did, the fear and panic thus instilled in some people will — as a practical matter — control the sensible, non-hypnotized people.
Fear is a hypnotic emotion and, once hypnotized, people will do anything they are told. You might even say that every time Newsom says “Covid” or “climate change” it acts as a post-hypnotic suggestion that serves to re-animate the Chicken Littles who then control everyone else, whether we fight against control or not. It has always been this way.
If we were as ruthless and mercenary as the bad guys we would use the fear-and-panic method to take back proper control of this issue; e.g., create fear and panic in the gullible population that we will have no electricity, no food, no useful products, that we will all be thrown into poverty and darkness and will die because of our “leadership’s” decades-long insistence on this climate change lie. Would it work? We’ll likely never know because people grounded in logic and real science typically don’t operate this way.
Great post Showandtell… love the logic & insight… very true…. too many low-information voters who are emotion-driven and devoid of logic in this state….
🙂 CD9
You mean “foreign entities” like the CCP and their “BYD” (“Build Your Dreams”) commercial conglomerate??? The one that CORRUPT GOVERNOR Gavin Newsom wrote a BILLION-DOLLAR no-compete contract with for PPE in the early days of their plandemic???
THOSE “foreign entities”????
California Democrat politicians are CORRUPT TO THE CORE and on the take to any NUMBER of entities… how else do they go in as “community organizers” and come out as MILLIONAIRES….. see Pelosi, Nancy and her ball-peen hammered husband…
talk about Pelosi and other Cal Dems making illicit millions from their jobs..are you serious?. trump and his regime have the highest rate of Grift and Graft on the job since Teapot Dome scandal…Blatant Unconstitutional Trespass Against Democracy! Fascist? Heck Yes! Get Real.. Read some History..US and World!
We are at the beginning of the greatest revolution in our history, artificial intelligence (AI). AI requires large amounts of energy for computing. The Democrats have made this state energy poor, and are putting California on the road to missing out on the AI revolution. The energy here is too expensive, and there is not enough of it. California is not preparing for the future. It is stuck in the past, and will be left behind. Meanwhile, companies are putting their data centers in other states. Nuclear plants are being built to support the data centers. Robotics require energy. Everything related to improving our quality of life requires energy.
The Democrats must go. The Democrats are in the way of the future.
I doubt all that energy is going to AI. That is just the cover story for the massive amounts of energy used for weather modification.
Producing oil and gas in CA is akin to crawling across cut glass. My company, a very small independent, plans on suing Newsom and the State for a “taking.” I will not go into details, but I never thought I would live in a state that is aggressively trying to run into the ground one of the most vital industries for human civilization. Newsom will be named as he is the most corrupt, incompetent and malevolent politician I have seen in my lifetime. He simply cannot connect the dots that tankers,, now supplying 70% of our petroleum needs from just 5% in 1992, increase air pollution by the equivalent of 20,000 cars from each tanker carrying products 12,000 miles away from countries that hate the US. Where have CA’s real environmentalists gone to? Windmills chopping up eagles and raptors and solar panels incinerating everything that crawls or flies within 50 sq miles. CA has not only fallen, it has gone insane.
Great news, and you are absolutely right to pursue this. Best wishes for success in your law suit.
Stephen T. Harris – please email me when you have filed your lawsuit. I’d very much like to cover it, and would also like to discuss with you. katy@californiaglobe.com
-Katy
Stephen, good news, and even better news when you have a victory. You are not just saving your company. You are saving all Californians.
This madness needs to end.
Geezers like myself can remember when California was governed rationally and was a great place to live.
Water was plentiful and cheap and so was electricity. No one worried about their utility bills including my folks who were quite poor. AC set on 68 in the summer and everyone had a green lawn. Gas was dirt cheap too!
MCGA!!
CW I often think, these days, of those days. It’s not impossible that we could see it again.
YES —– Make California Great Again!
My parents and grandparents would talk about what a wonderous place California back in the day. It was still pretty good through the 1980’s but by the early 2000’s when Democrats began to dominate the state’s politics it was all downhill from there. My grandparents would be both horrified and saddened by the absolute mess that California and my hometown of Sacramento has become.