Sounds like you are content to listen to talking points, instead of finding out for yourself what really happened there.
What “really” happened there was a continuation of Newtonian “environmentalist” behavior since about the late 1990s. He even came out against oil/gas in his book ‘Contract with the Earth’, one of those bestselling achievements he always pumps when he has an interview. Just because you’ve fallen for the Newt election propaganda doesn’t mean everyone else has to.
It’s people like you who are forcing us to choose between two different RINOs, when we have candidates with better principles to choose from. Even Perry with his immigration problem has a better character than Newt.