“At the end of the day, in the little bit of oil field that is still left, if it goes away tomorrow our county will go away,” Ms. De Leon said. “Oil is all we have here."

Well, Biden is for degrowth--at least verbally--but not the kind of degrowth I am talking about. If Tucker Carlson is elected in 2024 with speaking-in-tongues spiritual adviser Paula White as his VP, there still won't be oil jobs just as coal jobs did not materialize under Trump. There will be more jobs at Walmart, even if Carlson rails against China and imposes a new round of tariffs. We are talking about an economic system based on profits, not jobs. Those jobs disappeared in Ms. De Leon's region because of a declining demand for oil. For Christ's sake, Zoom's market valuation is now greater than ExxonMobil's.