[marron]

Critics of offshore drilling, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, use the spill of 80,000 barrels of crude some six miles off Santa Barbara nearly four decades ago to block efforts to corral the billions of barrels of recoverable oil off the California coast.

The joke of it is that the oil gurgles up through the ocean floor anyway and has for ten thousand years. Its coming up whether you drill for it or not, so you may as well drill.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

There is a map here of the area of oilseeps in California

http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/seeps/where.html

At the north end of the area was the site of the first oilwell in Calif in Petrolia.