NATIONWIDE — The return of offshore drilling to California’s popular coast appears to be in vogue again, thanks to Pres. Donald J. Trump’s “Make America Great Again” agenda. As many as six offshore locations along California’s coast could be designated for oil leases, part of a great plan under the Trump Administration to establish the U.S.’s energy dominance.
An Interior Department announcement, made Jan. 4 by Sec. Ryan Zinke, outlined a national plan to expand offshore drilling along the Atlantic Seaboard and Pacific Ocean Coast, as well as in the Gulf of Mexico and Arctic Ocean. The drilling plan would be executed during a five-year stretch and, according to the Associated Press, open the door for new oil and gas exploration in areas previously protected from such activity.
In all the United States could add 47 new oil and gas leases at various offshore locations surrounding the country. The stretch of ocean between San Diego and Crescent City could be home to six of the seven planned drilling locations in the Pacific region. Another 19 locations could be designated off the coast of Alaska. Also targeted: the Gulf of Mexico (12 possible locations) and Atlantic region (9 possible locations).
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So you spend most of the article talking about the negatives and none talking about the positives. The fact the leases are more than 3 miles offshore, the fact that oil is constantly leaking under natural pressure in the Santa Barbara channel, that any lease that is let will directly provide badly needed money to the general fund of the State and I can go on.
Whether you or the folks that hate oil/natural gas like it, it will take this form of energy and more to power all of their green vehicles. Look it up, you could give everyone in the state a free electric car to replace their gas powered vehicles and you would crash the entire electric grid trying to charge them since it cannot produce the required amount of power. It gets worse if you replace all of the “dirty” energy with “clean” energy.
If you want to cut your throats and not accept any of the money as Gavin Newsom has stated, along with, “that not a drop of oil or gas from new offshore drilling ever makes landfall in California”, the Federal Government will take that money and laugh all the way to the bank.
For all you folks that are not old enough to have been here when we had active wells, the law required that all that oil was only to be used for the citizens of the State the fuel prices at that time were some of the lowest in the country not the highest that they have become.
Drilling for oil/natural gas off of our coast is reckless and completely unnecessary. We need to continue moving toward renewable energy sources and leave the fossil fuels under our pristine oceans alone. If only the fossil thinking Mr. Pack could expand his mind and consider the dangers to our coast and wildlife, instead of simple-mindedly supporting right-wing oligarchic money-hungry profiteers, he might have a chance of understanding that there are no positives to this drilling.