If you want to reduce the oil produced, you must reduce the oil consumed. It’s just that simple. If you don’t reduce consumption, and you reduce production in America, they’ll just get that oil from somewhere else.”

Former 4-term California governor Jerry Brown, in Los Angeles Times climate reporter Sammy Roth’s Aug. 4 “Boiling Point” column, Jerry Brown was surprised — and thrilled — by Joe Manchin’s climate deal.