Philp: How oil-hungry California plays into Trump’s quest for Venezuela’s crude

Listening to President Donald Trump speak on the U.S. military’s decapitation of the leadership in Venezuela, it is clear that the act was more about oil than anything else. Our brazen pursuit of the world’s largest remaining oil reserves should serve as a wake-up call to California and its waning commitment to an independent, renewable energy future.

The state’s political appetite to keep transitioning away from oil has been clearly ebbing as residents balk at the cost of everything in California...