Posted on 03/12/2012 6:34:49 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
I would pay $26 a gallon if it was processed out of liberals.
There are 601 active producing wells in the Long Beach field near Los Angeles.
Although there are many other older wells capped, there is plenty of production continuing to drain this field.
http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/maps/Pages/goto_welllocation.aspx
Download the MS Excel file for District 1. The well database can be sorted by status of well, county, township, field, etc.
Is this an exercise in missing the point?
To get that ethanol from corn, petroleum has to be consumed in various ways. Maybe the figure given is exaggerated but it cannot be nonzero.
You can see one well being drilled at 33.812000000 -118.185600000 - and just north of that location, you can see one (probably) active pump.
Just immediately west of that location, you can see other pumps, likely active, (white pickup truck with open door beside one) - and a block further west are two more active pumps, with associated storage tanks.
Half a block to the east and south of the one being drilled is another probably active pump.
The question regarding why old capped wells in Long Beach, known to be full again, could not be opened and pumped again by the owner of the well, still remains an unanswered question - the likely impediment being federal and state government standing in the way.
601 in the long beach oil field, not the postal address.
To address the claim of oil being left in the ground untapped, I looked at the number of actively flowing wells.
Old Abandoned wells do not just have a cap on top. They are filled with cement.
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