Yup. I've read that, and seen the pictures.
California has been an oil producer since the late 19th century. By the early 20th century, 40% of our oil came from California. The fact, that one of California’s historic major industries is leaving is a big deal...and long past due.
Yes. My daughter's sister-in-law owns beachfront property in Huntington Beach, lined with mansions. Early 20th century pictures of the area showed oil wells everywhere up and down that beach, all gone now. A lot of oil is still there, but the wells are hidden now, and Democrats like Newsom want to kill any oil drilling that remains.
Yup. I've read that, and seen the pictures.
As a kid, I remember the oil fields down near Bakersfield.
“ California has been an oil producer since the late 19th century. By the early 20th century, 40% of our oil came from California. The fact, that one of California’s historic major industries is leaving is a big deal...and long past due”
Not anymore - libs have prevented drilling in California for ions there’s virtually NOTHING producing in CA in the domestic well database (and production database) of 3.2 million wells I managed for decades 🤪
Right you are.
CA once had SO much oil offshore, the crude was seeping up and would wash ashore on SoCal beaches under heavy storm conditions. Come-lately lunkheads groused about offshore oil rigs dotting the blue Pacific horizon, but didn’t know those rigs were pumping out crude that formerly fouled the shores via acts of nature.
Long Beach became a nexus of refining industry because the are — both on shore and offshore — was oil rich; there were walking beam oil pumps all over the place.
“In the summer of 1921, the Signal Hill oil discovery would help make California the source of one-quarter of the world’s entire oil output. Soon known as “Porcupine Hill,” the town’s Long Beach oilfield would produce about 260,000 barrels of oil every day by 1923.”
https://aoghs.org/petroleum-pioneers/signal-hill-oil/
Another fun fact: Los Angeles began life as a big cow town.
