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The Left Coast Is Pumping Again As Trump Unleashes Tens of Thousands of Barrels of Offshore Oil a Day
RedState ^ | 3/30/2026 | Bob Hoge

Posted on 03/30/2026 5:00:38 PM PDT by Signalman

The news sent California Gov. Gavin Newsom, activist Jane Fonda, and their ilk into a frenzy. In mid-March, Donald Trump signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act, a 1950 Cold War-era law, to force the restart of a dormant offshore oil operation along the California coast.

Of course, the Golden State immediately sued — how dare we produce our own energy!

That litigation is ongoing, but in the meantime, the oil is officially pumping, and it’s coming out fast:

Sable Offshore officially commenced oil sales through the Santa Ynez Pipeline System Sunday, marking the first time the network has moved crude oil since a major spill idled operations over a decade ago…

The company announced oil began flowing on March 29, with the pipeline successfully filled from Las Flores Canyon to Pentland Station at a rate exceeding 50,000 barrels per day. That is roughly 66,000 full tanks of gas.

Once again, this proves that our reliance on foreign oil is a problem largely of our own making — or at least, the Democrats’ making — and we should be tapping our own resources and not relying on countries that are unstable or that hate us.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham visited the facility on Wednesday and was blown away:

Sable COO and President J. Caldwell Flores: "60,000 barrels a day of processed crude going down to El Segundo refinery that’s owned by Chevron down there.”

Laura Ingraham: "When’s the last time El Segundo refinery had that much oil running through it?"

Flores: "They have not had our crude in over 11 years."

LET 'ER FLOW: Trump Invokes Cold War Emergency Law to Restart California's Offshore Oil—Newsom Vows to Fight Back

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Of course, Hanoi Jane is in a tizzy. She’d prefer we just shut down all energy production and put our hope in overseas adversaries:

Former President Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom, and basically every leftist with a pulse have done everything in their power to kneecap energy production in this country for decades as we wait for their supposed magic green energy sources to mature and become more productive. In the meantime, it’s not the Jane Fondas who get hurt, it’s the little guy who’s seen their electric bills explode and their pump prices go through the roof.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: california; crudeoil; drillbabydrill; energy; oil

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1 posted on 03/30/2026 5:00:38 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman
I remember that jennyass Fonda and her "China Syndrome" movie. It set back the nuclear industry for 20 years. Imagine if we had the plants which were scrapped from the drawing board during all those years.

2 posted on 03/30/2026 5:08:46 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Signalman

Pump baby, pump.


3 posted on 03/30/2026 5:09:07 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Signalman

Kamala is going to have a conniption and need another drink!


4 posted on 03/30/2026 5:10:33 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Signalman
The news sent California Gov. Gavin Newsom, activist Jane Fonda, and their ilk into a frenzy..

Speaking of Jane Fonda - that cheap plastic surgeon addict - she needs to know Trump won the popular vote AND the electoral vote. In short Trump is the duly elected PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. He's NOT a KING, but Fonda is and always will be a traitor to her country and to the people who live here. May she rot in hell...

5 posted on 03/30/2026 5:12:27 PM PDT by GOPJ (Oil was over $100 for 3.5 years of Obam[a]’s term without daily headlines.)
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House GOP subpoenas California official over refusal to drop EV mandate

https://nypost.com/2026/03/30/us-news/house-gop-subpoenas-california-official-over-ev-mandate-emails-with-newsom/


6 posted on 03/30/2026 5:13:48 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Signalman
The news sent California Gov. Gavin Newsom, activist Jane Fonda, and their ilk into a frenzy..

Speaking of Jane Fonda - that cheap plastic surgeon addict - needs to know Trump won the popular vote AND the electoral vote. In short Trump is the duly elected PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. He's NOT a KING, but Fonda is and always will be a traitor to her country and the people who live here. May she rot in hell...for eternity.

7 posted on 03/30/2026 5:14:03 PM PDT by GOPJ (Oil was over $100 for 3.5 years of Obama’s term without daily headlines.)
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To: Signalman

Price of regular here in Vegas area hit over 5 bucks/gallon at a Shell station near where I live. Mainly because of idiot Newsom’s anti-oil policies which resulted in numerous refineries closing. NV gets 88% if its gasoline from CA and has no refineries of its own.

There is a pipeline being built which will bring gas from TX to Vegas but it won’t be completed until 2029.


8 posted on 03/30/2026 5:14:04 PM PDT by Signalman (When your enemy is digging himself a hole, don't take away his shovel.)
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To: Signalman
She’d prefer we just shut down all energy production and put our hope in overseas enrich our adversaries:
9 posted on 03/30/2026 5:14:38 PM PDT by LouAvul (I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6)
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To: GOPJ

Is she still s “Christian” as she claims?


10 posted on 03/30/2026 5:20:56 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Signalman
NV gets 88% if its gasoline from CA and has no refineries of its own.

Don't they have roads that go to Utah?

11 posted on 03/30/2026 5:21:46 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Sure, Interstate 15.


12 posted on 03/30/2026 5:27:31 PM PDT by Signalman (When your enemy is digging himself a hole, don't take away his shovel.)
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To: Fungi

I knew a guy who said he was a Christian because he believed there was a God.... didn’t know WHO the God was though....
never could have believed people could harbor such uninformed opinions


13 posted on 03/30/2026 5:38:44 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Signalman

1969 Santa Barbara. Big oil slick. Do we need another?


14 posted on 03/30/2026 5:40:01 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Signalman

So, is Judge Boasberg going to make Trump ship the oil back?

Bwahhahahahahaha!

I love this President so much... “Step aside, haters, the rest of the country is more important than you crybabies!”


15 posted on 03/30/2026 5:42:34 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. --DJT)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
1969 Santa Barbara. Big oil slick. Do we need another?

The sea bed in that area is constantly oozing oil.

16 posted on 03/30/2026 5:48:34 PM PDT by fso301
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If the accurate number is 50K barrels/day, that is an increase of only 18% to what California produces.


17 posted on 03/30/2026 5:52:18 PM PDT by Owen
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To: Signalman
Interstate 15.

Well, there's a refinery in Utah and several more in Wyoming. Somebody can get on the horn and order up some gas.

18 posted on 03/30/2026 5:58:19 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

That was 57 years ago. It’s all been cleansed by the sunshine.


19 posted on 03/30/2026 6:07:19 PM PDT by healy61
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Dirty, you are anti-oil?


20 posted on 03/30/2026 6:31:21 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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