One of the most revealing energy stories in America right now is not in Texas, Oklahoma, or North Dakota. It is in the bluest states in the country. From Hawaii to New York, California, and Massachusetts, elected officials in blue states still talk as if punishing oil and gas companies is a leading strategy. But when electric bills spike, fuel prices jump, or grid warnings intensify, those same officials keep circling back to the fossil-fuel infrastructure they insist they are leaving behind.
That is a real national contradiction. Blue-state climate politics says one thing, but actual blue-state energy policies are
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