Commentary
One of the great reasons to read The Epoch Times is to counter the nonsense on California perpetrated every day by the Los Angeles Times, which is still highly influential in state politics. A case in point is a recent editorial that opines, “Big Oil reaps record profits while the planet burns. California should curb its greed.”
In one headline it advances: socialism instead of “record profits”; “the planet burns,” meaning “climate change,” the recent bugaboo that replaced “global warming”; and the idea that giving people a commodity essential to civilization is “greed.”
It begins: “Chevron, Shell, Exxon Mobil and other oil companies made more money than ever in 2022, showing just how massive a windfall they reaped as surging gas prices made it a struggle for drivers to afford filling up.” Actually, the cause is not a “surge in gas prices,” but a surge in global oil prices….