News Item: President Donald Trump (still) intends to allow oil reporting off the California coast.
This inappropriate announcement came shortly after his inauguration in 2017, then it came a few months in his first place and at the beginning of Trump, and when Trump served another whole plan to open all the tables in the Pacific, including some North sea areas.
None of Trump’s previous proposals have gone that far.
That’s reassuring, although it’s no guarantee that California’s great coastline and the communities that support it will be saved again.
Again, it is up to California to protect this 840 mile treasure from exploitation.
Tourism and recreation contribute billions of dollars to California’s economy, the fourth largest in the world, and the pristine beaches and Pacific Ocean are symbols of the golden state seen around the world.
Offshore platforms, shore terminals and tanker trucks blasting up and down highway 1 are no match for tourism.
There is nothing real about the possibility of natural disasters like deevater aron and exxon valdez.
Here in California, the 1969 Union Oil spill near Santa Barbara resulted in more than three million gallons of crude oil spilling into the ocean, killing wild beaches as far away as Ventura. In 2015, pipeline breaks allowed 143,000 gallons to spill onto Santa Barbara’s beaches. In 2021, after an anchor damaged a pipeline in San Pedro Bay, approximately 25,000 gallons of crude washed up in and around Huntington Beach. Let’s risk it on Sonama Coast.
About 30 oil rigs are still operating in state and federal waters in Southern California, although the Stambu Lands Commission has not approved any new rigs in state waters since the Staba Barbara Spill in 1969.
Beginning in 1984, Congress approved a series of moratoriums that prohibited new leases in waters off the California coast. Presidents including George HW Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Babiden have extended the National Marine Greenaies, including cool farlalones and corsell bank off sonoma aged marines, promising permanent protection.
According to Trump, according to the report of the Houston Chronica, he wants to fall back on some of those that are protected and give oil to rent in Oregon and 2027.
“They’re coming to us,” Santa Cruz County Supervisor Cummings told the Democratic newspaper Austin Murphy. “And we have to be ready.”
The drive did not decay without threatening California’s economy. It is an EXERCISE policy for bad policy and bad weather policy. To achieve true energy independence and protect our warming planet, the US must rely less on oil and more on wind, solar, geothermal and other clean, renewable energy sources.
The United States has been exporting petroleum products since 2020, according to government data. In other words, the US already sells more oil than it imports – without risking a spill off the coast of California.
Even with the transition to green energy, the US will remain dependent on oil for years, perhaps decades. That’s why California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newlom allowed production in Kern County’s Inland oil fields. They may need to take other steps to ensure that California considers the ability to store sufficient fuel supplies while drivers transition to electric vehicles.
Trump says climate change is a hoax. By 2025, that’s about as reasonable as claiming the earth is flat. Or doubling up on gum veins.
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