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LA City Council votes for higher gas prices, fewer energy jobs

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The LA City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to ban new oil and gas operations within city limits and to get rid of existing fossil fuel infrastructure over the next 20 years.

Not one dissenting voice. Not one voice for lower prices, for “affordability,” for jobs, or for common sense.

(Moderate Democrat Traci Park was the only member not to vote for the ban on oil and gas; she had the good sense to be absent.)

The council targeted local oil and gas production this despite skyrocketing fuel prices, and despite the fact that the energy industry has provided good, paying jobs in LA for generations.

Indeed, oil was once part of LA’s civic identity.

Then Democrats decided that climate change was their new religion.

Never mind the science, and the fact that California, big as it is, has a negligible impact on global climate, especially with China and India burning ever-expanding barrels of fossil........

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