Davis is a Democrat, so are both Senators from the State, and both houses of the state legislature are under Democratic control. Put together these two sets of policies were enough to destroy energy in the most populous state in America. All change is opposed. Growth is bad. New is evil.
Any new technology is fought.
Any new building is condemned. Leftism today is fundamentally an ideology of stagnation and decay. One reason Leftists hate the market is because of the constant change which capitalism creates. They are truly conservatives huddled in the dark, particularly these days in California, lamenting anything new. But it didn't work.