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New oil find in California
Los Angeles Times ^ | September 24, 2009 | Ronald D. White

Posted on 09/23/2009 7:19:50 PM PDT by larry hagedon

New oil discovery in California; one more place to not drill here drill now.

Oxy oil discovery could spark new interest in California's energy potential The biggest find in the state in 35 years, somewhere in Kern County, could herald new exploration in California and the U.S., experts say. But some worry it could lead to a false sense of security.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: discovery; oil; petroleum
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To: BlueDragon
Absolutely a crooked underhanded deal!!

First, the Navy should never have given it up as their strategic reserve!!!

21 posted on 09/23/2009 7:51:53 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: marron

I think it is “The Teapot Dome Scandal” part 2

“In 1921, by executive order of President Harding, control of Naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and at Elk Hills, California, was transferred from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior. The oil reserves had been set aside for the Navy by President Taft. In 1922, Albert B. Fall, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, leased, without competitive bidding, the Teapot Dome fields to Harry F. Sinclair, an oil operator, and the field at Elk Hills, California, to Edward L. Doheny. These transactions became (1922–23) the subject of a Senate investigation conducted by Sen. Thomas J. Walsh”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal


22 posted on 09/23/2009 7:53:23 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: OldCorps

yep


23 posted on 09/23/2009 7:54:30 PM PDT by larry hagedon (born and raised and retired in Iowa.)
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To: bray
Nazi Pelosi

Like it. Will steal it.

24 posted on 09/23/2009 7:58:23 PM PDT by Bernard Marx ("Civilizations die by suicide, not from murder" Toynbee)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Thats the only way it will get out of the Ground on the Leftist Coast.

Pray for America


25 posted on 09/23/2009 8:05:10 PM PDT by bray (He's a Divider not a Uniter)
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To: larry hagedon
I see that they have identified a new brown field for one of those boards to clean up.
26 posted on 09/23/2009 8:06:43 PM PDT by Domangart (editor and publisher)
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To: larry hagedon

Oh yes Occidental and the Gores nice dealings there from Elk Hills to Hooker Chemical and the Love Canal.


27 posted on 09/23/2009 8:07:45 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: larry hagedon
May I make a request to this administration? Please drill off the eastern coast of FL. Specifically between PBC and Ft. Lauderdale. Please. That way most of the crude coming up through the ocean floor might be siphoned off, so I and the family won't have to take it home with us on our person...

5.56mm

28 posted on 09/23/2009 8:11:52 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: larry hagedon
Obviously this propaganda was funded by Big Oil. We need to get off our addiction and ride bicycles made from hemp fiber. If they pierce Gaia to extract her oil, it will damage the ecological systems in the area for 10,000 years and contribute to the destruction of the planet. Indigenous species in the area will go extinct, and it won't make any difference in the supply of oil, anyway.

Well, I think I hit all the liberal arguments. :)

29 posted on 09/23/2009 8:15:19 PM PDT by ElectronVolt
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

I believe I also read that Occidental wasn’t even the highest bidder. It was such a benefit to Gore, tho, how could they NOT award the deal to them.

I wasn’t politically aware at that time in my life, but I did watch the news and I don’t remember hearing any of the anti-capitalists excoriating Gore over making such a big profit.


30 posted on 09/23/2009 8:16:37 PM PDT by abigailsmybaby (To understan' the livin' you got to commune wit' da dead.)
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To: Son-Joshua
In the immortal words of Smokey from the movie "Friday" (talking about marijuana) -

"God put this here on Earth fo' us man!"

31 posted on 09/23/2009 8:17:36 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("It (Gov't) can't make you happier, healthier, wealthier, and wise" - Sarah Palin 07/26)
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To: madison10

lol In that area it’s kangaroo rats.

We had a severe mouse problem at the warehouse so one of the guys put out sticky traps. One of them ended up with 3 baby kangaroo rats stuck in it. The supervisor made him immediately bury them before the resident eco-nut found out because the fine is $10,000/rat (supervisor’s words). You could prolly add $5000 per since they were babies.


32 posted on 09/23/2009 8:25:15 PM PDT by abigailsmybaby (To understan' the livin' you got to commune wit' da dead.)
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To: larry hagedon

So what. We don’t drill for oil anymore.


33 posted on 09/23/2009 9:04:54 PM PDT by Gator113
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To: larry hagedon

well, if the political winds ever stop blowing the wrong way, this could be a great deal for Bakersfield. In the past few years, oil was winding down there, and the thought was that it was an old area that was almost played out. Sounds like Bakersfield might get a new lease on life, if given a chance.

By the way, I drove through the area northeast of Bakersfield a few years ago on a little state highway. For some miles it is an otherworldly expanse of low hills with dry grass, and above ground pipes everywhere. Very desolate and somewhat post-apocalyptic. Somebody ought to write a lonesome song or story about it. It is very evocative.


34 posted on 09/23/2009 9:06:52 PM PDT by married21
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To: larry hagedon

California is moving to a soy-based economy so they don’t need that oil.


35 posted on 09/23/2009 9:14:45 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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Don’t know that it is related, but Hannity showed Feinstein explaining her no vote to turn the water back on in the San Joaquin Valley. She said it would be like ‘Pearl Harbor’. It’s a clue, I think, but to what?


36 posted on 09/23/2009 11:16:28 PM PDT by FreeStateYank (I want my country and constitution back, now!)
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To: ElectronVolt

I wouldn’t know, as I am a Conservative and pay little attention to Liberal philosophy.


37 posted on 09/29/2009 1:36:34 PM PDT by larry hagedon (born and raised and retired in Iowa.)
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To: OldCorps

Yep, right on the button my friend, I have always been for drilling here and drilling now.


38 posted on 09/29/2009 1:39:22 PM PDT by larry hagedon (born and raised and retired in Iowa.)
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