California has *tons* of oil. In fact, they have so much off shore, tar balls float ashore and coat some of the beaches. They’ve got quite a bit inland, too. See the La Brea Tar Pits as one example - those are oil sands!
They just refuse to exploit it any more. My high school mascot (at one school) was an oil field worker, from when they actually did drill for and pump oil. If they’d pump out some of the oil off their coast, they wouldn’t have to keep cleaning up their beaches. From the leftist Heal The Bay website - they even admit it themselves:
“What is the source of the tar that sometimes appears on Santa Monica Bay beaches? Is that from offshore drilling?
Natural oil seeps are present in the Santa Monica Bay off the coast of Redondo Beach and Manhattan Beach. They are a natural geological occurrence and are not caused by any human activity. On average, about 10 barrels (420 gallons) of oil from the seeps reach the sea surface daily in Santa Monica Bay. Surface oil generally drifts northward, towards the shore, reaching the beaches from Redondo Beach to Malibu in a few days. Tar on Santa Monica Bay beaches also comes from natural seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel. Geologic activity, like earthquakes, can affect the flow of natural oil seeps.”
http://www.healthebay.org/offshore-oil-drilling-%E2%80%93-faqs
Ten gallons just oozing out and they won’t let anyone go pump it all out to keep the beaches clean. But they’ll happily attack you to get more money to clean up the oil once it inevitably hits the beaches.
Yep, the stupidity of liberals is endless. Can’t they imagine what new socialist programs could be put in place with all that oil money?