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Huh! I have family still living in Cambria California not to far north of Santa Barbara, no tar balls. Oil drilling in Santa Barbara is still going on with existing rigs, no tar balls when I was there a couple of years ago.
We used to go to Santa Barbara every year when we lived in...
Yup, Santa Barbara was the home of the 1969 oil rig blow out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill
And Goleta's oil fields were shelled in WWII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellwood_Oil_Field
And if you take a walk on those beautiful beachs, you will get tar on your feet...
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I think we will see a lot more NG use in the future. I heard that Obama had a part of the stimulus slated for NG conversion for fleet trucks including semis. It was just a short story so who knows what actually happened. There are a lot of fleet vehicles that run on NG right now. I...
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I wish we here in the US had access to the diesel cars you folks are able to purchase. There are a number of problems with hybrids, such as putting those huge mercury battery banks in the landfills, not to mention replacement cost. In addition, the voltage found in hybrids and...
Personally, I think the Shell Oil exec has reasons he would love the gas price to be $5 a gallon. Didn't Exxon/Mobil show record profits the last time the price of gas went up?
If you think we have it hard, check out the European countries and what they pay per liter.
We just need to work on...