California is a beacon for smart people. Yet we seem to excel in producing policies that hurt ourselves.  This is particularly clear in the present energy crisis. The showdown in the Strait of Hormuz has raised oil prices worldwide, but it is also unmasking the sheer idiocy of California’s current energy regime. For more than a decade, California has been waging war on its own fossil fuel industry . Once, the Golden State was a major energy exporter. But regulators, steeped in green religion,