Newsom Refuses to Address the Hydrocarbon Elephant in the Room

Newsom Refuses to Address the Hydrocarbon Elephant in the Room
Oil pours out of a spout from the original 1859 well that launched the modern petroleum industry at the Drake Well Museum and Park in Titusville, Pa., on Oct. 5, 2017. Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Ronald Stein
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is refusing to address the hydrocarbon elephant in the room, namely that the end of oil would be the end of civilization, as the products manufactured from crude oil played a major role in allowing the world population to grow from one billion to eight billion people in the past 200 years.
Ronald Stein
Ronald Stein
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Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for Heartland, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.”
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