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    Doyle McManus: Trump loves fossil fuels; California wants clean energy. Cue collision

    WASHINGTON — Donald Trump says he isn't worried about climate change. Before he was a presidential candidate, he said global warming was "a hoax" invented by China to kneecap the American economy. "The climate has always been changing," he shrugged more recently. If he's elected president, Trump says, one of his "Day One" priorities will be increasing oil and gas production — or, as he puts ...
    by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times Apr 01, 2024 5 minutes
    Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump leaves the stage a the conclusion of a campaign rally at the Forum River Center March 9, 2024, in Rome, Georgia.

    WASHINGTON — Donald Trump says he isn't worried about climate change.

    Before he was a presidential candidate, he said global warming was "a hoax" invented by China to kneecap the American economy.

    "The climate has always been changing," he shrugged more recently.

    If he's elected president, Trump says, one of his "Day One" priorities will be increasing oil and gas production — or, as he puts it: "Drill, baby, drill!"

    With more fossil fuels, he promises, "we will be rich again and happy again."

    Those positions are at the heart of Trump's campaign to regain the White House. And they put him on a collision course with California, where the Democratic-led government, supported by most voters, has made a clean-energy economy a major goal.

    "It's breathtaking how easily manipulated this man is,"

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