The Fake Buildings That Hide LA’s Massive Oil Industry

YouTube ^ | January 13, 2022 | Half as Interesting

[SunkenCiv]

(18 million bbl a week)

The Fake Buildings That Hide LA’s Massive Oil Industry | January 13, 2022 | Half as Interesting

[SunkenCiv]

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[Repeal The 17th]

How much recoverable oil is at La Brea?

[SunkenCiv]

Los Angeles has a subway, too.

[al baby]

They are on many corners sometimes inside other business

[SunkenCiv]

Looks like not much. And it’s asphalt rather than oil.

https://suburbanturmoil.com/about-the-la-brea-tar-pits/2016/06/28/

[Thank You Rush]

Are we talking about LOS ANGELES (L.A.) or LOUISIANA (LA)?

Big difference!

[virgil]

There’s lots of oil under Los Angeles.

[gnarledmaw]

Famous skyscrapers of Louisiana

[KTM rider]

I worked on many of them in the 90s-2000's , I heard most of the oil in the area is high sulpher so they use it for making ashphalt mostly.

They used to burn it to generate electricity, it made a brown haze and makes lungs hurt and eyes burn

They Phazed out the oil fired power plants as they imposed smog devices on cars and the government declared themselves our heroes for saving us from our smog belching cars, but it was really because of their high sulpher oil burning generators

[Ken H]

“The city’s different at night. The air smells better. It’s harder to see that the oil rigs outnumber the palm trees.”

—The Two Jakes

[KTM rider]

It is mostly high sulpher that is why you see those giant bright yellow mounds at San Pedro Harbor next to the huge black piles of Coke (flyash)

the flyash is very valuable as a cement additive for concrete

and the sulfur is good for making black powder for ordnance

[curdogmen]

worked all over the LA oil basin....on production hoists, drilling rigs and oil and gas facilities. Their was or is oilwells every where. not all wells have pumping unit on it. Even worked on the old standard derricks, where we had to hook up our draw works to pull the well. the oilfields were very good to me, retired for a while now

[KTM rider]

Baker Industries in east LA puts out a nasty smell ( meat packing waste, dead animals and vegetable oil processing/recycling)

[KTM rider]

I probably saw you on a unit “turnover” at one of the refineries, I ran a concrete boom pump for Merli

[SunkenCiv]

Los Angeles of course.

[wjcsux]

“ There’s lots of oil under Los Angeles.”
The La Brea área has a considerable amount of oil. I met the captain of an oil exploration ship many years ago. He stated that there was so much oil off the coast of Southern California that it would take years to map it all.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, it's not about clean air, it's about getting a bigger boot for everyone's necks.

[virgil]

I knew there was oil in LA since the first time I visited back in the 80s. A friend showed me one of the “fake” buildings with an oil well inside. I did not know until recently that LA once had oil derricks all the way down to the ocean front. They were everywhere. Maybe they still are everywhere, just well hidden. Amazing.