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LETTER: Trump at fault for California’s predicament

Las Vegas Review-Journal·Jerry Sturdivant Las Vegas·20 days ago
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In your Saturday editorial on oil and gas shortages in California — and Nevada hangs on California’s teat — Nevada companies complain about the way California obtains the very gas that Nevada desperately requests. The Review-Journal praises Donald Trump for “riding to the rescue” by suspending long-established shipping regulations under the Jones Act so California can obtain domestic fuel supplies — and, in turn, keep Nevada supplied as well. But this crisis was largely triggered by Mr. Trump’s own reckless foreign-policy adventurism: “Gee, even though I’m smarter than all the generals, who would have thought Iran might shut down the Strait of Hormuz?” (The answer: Just about everybody). And if the RJ dislikes California’s “destructive energy policies” so much, perhaps Nevada should convert its California gasoline pipeline into a crude-oil pipeline and build an oil refinery at the south end of the Strip.…

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