The Weekend Intelligence: What happens when the drilling stops? A dispatch from a California oil town

Kern County, and its biggest city, Bakersfield were built on oil. There is Petrol Road, north of Oildale. The Standard School district down the street is named after J.D. Rockefeller’s petroleum empire. The mascot for Bakersfield high school is the Drillers. But these echoes of mid-20th century America are quietly fading. In the necessary push to transition California to greener options, the state is determined to end oil. And then what? Aryn Braun reports from Bakersfield on what happens when the drilling stops. Listen to what matters most, from global politics and business to science and technology—Subscribe to Economist Podcasts+ For more information about how to access Economist Podcasts+, please visit our FAQs page or watch our video explaining how to link your account. Music by Blue dot and Epidemic