Posted on 05/22/2014 5:46:52 AM PDT by thackney
Off the coast of Southern California there were oil rigs that are now mostly shut down.(A few are left but they won’t allow new ones to be built) People say the oil just seeps up from the ocean bottoms and forms tar balls on some of the beaches. California won’t allow any more off shore drilling but there’s tons of oil there if they wanted to get it!
There was a really bad oil spill off Santa Barbara in 1969, a Union Oil platform.
It made a hell of a mess, lots of dead fish, birds and mammals, miles of pristine beach fouled. It was a massive blowout, over a 1,000 psi at the rig. Modern drilling methods would have prevented it from happening.
That’s what put the kibosh on coastal drilling, especially in California.
There is an ocean of oil beneath the California coast. Not too deep either.
.......I appreciate your substantially valid comment.
However, I think millions of Americans and many, if not most, Freepers believe that ANY data coming out of the federal government right now is, at a minimum, suspect.
Back when the federal government had a few top echelon folks with a modicum of character, I would have been completely on your side on this issue.
Right now, the federal government is all out against Fracking and I personally believe these numbers were derived from “cooking the books” in order to make the larger point that “oh, the US doesn’t have all that much fossil fuel, get off it, and let’s stick to Solar and Wind”!
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