Category Archives: Oil

Sanctioning Russian Oil Exports

Russian Oil Exports to Europe, China, and the US The oil scene in round numbers is that the World is about to use 100 million barrels per day (mbpd), where a barrel is 42 gallons and makes 19.2 gallons of … Continue reading

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Saving Gas Money in Face of Gas Price Rises

Saving Gas Money in the Face of Gas Price Rise Update, March 10, a poll by AAA on American’s how and when they are planning to adapt to the rising gas prices.  With the price of gas greater than $4 … Continue reading

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The Latest California Redistricting Draft Removes UCI from the 45th to the 49th Coastal District

The Latest California Redistricting Draft Removes the UC Irvine Area from the 45th to 49th Coastal District According to the OC Register the UCI area in the latest redistricting draft has moved into the coastal 49th district.  This also includes … Continue reading

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Huntington Beach Oil Spill Update

Huntington Beach Oil Spill Update Update, October 8.  The oil spill could have been as small as only 25,000 gallons.  They have now photographed the straight 13” split on the pipeline.  That small a volume would not have triggered a … Continue reading

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Background Information on the Huntington Beach Oil Spill

Background information on the Huntington Beach or Orange County oil spill. California controls drilling and pipelines out to three miles from the coast.  The federal government controls those further out, at least to the 12 mile limit.  There are 23 … Continue reading

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Nose-witness Account of October 2021 Huntington Beach Oil Spill

Nose-witness Account of October 2021 Huntington Beach Oil Spill I have to report that I was a nose-witness to what I believe was the Friday night start of the Huntington Beach Oil Spill.  The spilled oil from an offshore oil … Continue reading

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Trump’s Continuous Coronavirus Pandemic Has Been Terrible for Oil Companies

Trump’s Continuous Coronavirus Pandemic has been Terrible for Oil Companies While Trump was blasting Biden for saying that the US would be using less oil, that will be a very long range adoption of Electric cars, which are only selling … Continue reading

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Trump Leaves a Destructive Climate Wake

Trump Leaves a Destructive Climate Wake Humpty Dumpty Ran on The Wall; Humpty Dumpty Had a Viral Fall; All the King’s Governors and all of his Judgemen, Couldn’t Put Humpty in Office Again.  (We hope.) The NY Times had a … Continue reading

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Republican Hypocrisy on Hunter Biden with their own Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas Funding

Republican Hypocrisy on Hunter Biden with their own Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas Funding Republicans want us to see it as unfair that Hunter Biden took perhaps a million dollars a year for being on the board of a natural … Continue reading

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Comparing the Citizens Climate Lobby and the Climate Leadership Council Carbon Fee and Dividend Plans

Comparing the Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL) and the Climate Leadership Council (CLC) Carbon Fee and Dividend Plans The CLC has been put forward by an Οp-Ed in the Washington Post, and the “The Pricing Advantage” by George R. Schultz and … Continue reading

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