Thank you for your fair and balanced approach to this important topic. Clearly, the green industrial complex likes to think it’s all knowing and all powerful, but no, common sense must prevail. It’s obvious that SBCO is right in the middle of the green industrial complex and orthodoxy. UCSB, a publicly funded university, has an entire department offering advanced degrees which sole purpose is to oppose fossil fuels. The Environmental Studies Program at UCSB graduates dozens of “environmental warriors” every year in order to promote green technology and idolatry.
Still, there are NFP’s such as the Sierra Club, EDC, Surf Rider, Channel Keeper and others who oppose any and all fossil fuels and have gummed up the legal system by frivolous lawsuits resulting in nearly bankrupting Sable, and adding millions to the cost consumers must ultimately bare.
As always, follow the money. These groups need to open up the books and reveal who is funding their tax free scam on the rest of us.
BTW, what are the connections, financial and otherwise, between the various environmental groups and the unelected California Costal Commission? The Board of the CCC is a who’s who of liberal, lefty activism.
Quote "For many Californians, the Coastal Commission has become an agency perceived as lacking common sense, hostile to reasonable development, and increasingly disconnected from the people and communities affected by its decisions."
Paraphrase from State of Calif. - You will only be allowed to buy tires we demand and using the average gasoline per gallon cost of between $5.56/$6.00 a gallon you will recover the cost in a year - forget you might not be able to afford the tires.
The author forgot to mention the pipeline rupture occurred on land and flowed down a creek to the ocean.
The bottom line is the Socialists have controlled the path of government in Calif. since the 1980's. The true path is eventually a Communist System and destruction of the Constitution of the Nation. The now open statements by the surging factions of the Democrat Party by the DSA include comments and statement of "Comrade" and the elimination of borders, police, more.
This might seem a divergent from the problems of the Coastal Commission but it is a comment on the path of the Left that has clearly over taken and now control a very influential sector of the Government of the State of Calif.
I congratulate Leana Levanov on a well written article.
Thank you for the informative article. We should benefit from the offshore oil & gas located in such close proximity. BTW, a study completed in the early 90’s by an industry association; The Oil & Gas Institute, estimated that at current usage there was a 500 year+ supply of natural gas in the US. This is a highly efficient clean burning fuel in plentiful supply that emits 98% fewer hydro carbons than other fossil fuels. Also we can reduce fossil fuel consumption by moving towards nuclear energy with new modular reactors and adequate safeguards against accidents. None of the above eliminates the continued used of efficient internal combustion engines which can run on either refined gasoline or natural gas. The natural gas’s does however require the use of a high strength pressure vessel for storage in lieu of an injection molded plastic fuel tank which is cheaper and easier to design for placement within the automobile chassis. This is an expensive tradeoff which the consumer will naturally resist for economic reasons.Unfortunately only about 15% of our electrical energy needs can be reliably produced by hydro power, wind or solar and Mother Nature, the provider, is often fickle and unreliable.
Thank you for your fair and balanced approach to this important topic. Clearly, the green industrial complex likes to think it’s all knowing and all powerful, but no, common sense must prevail. It’s obvious that SBCO is right in the middle of the green industrial complex and orthodoxy. UCSB, a publicly funded university, has an entire department offering advanced degrees which sole purpose is to oppose fossil fuels. The Environmental Studies Program at UCSB graduates dozens of “environmental warriors” every year in order to promote green technology and idolatry.
Still, there are NFP’s such as the Sierra Club, EDC, Surf Rider, Channel Keeper and others who oppose any and all fossil fuels and have gummed up the legal system by frivolous lawsuits resulting in nearly bankrupting Sable, and adding millions to the cost consumers must ultimately bare.
As always, follow the money. These groups need to open up the books and reveal who is funding their tax free scam on the rest of us.
BTW, what are the connections, financial and otherwise, between the various environmental groups and the unelected California Costal Commission? The Board of the CCC is a who’s who of liberal, lefty activism.
Quote "For many Californians, the Coastal Commission has become an agency perceived as lacking common sense, hostile to reasonable development, and increasingly disconnected from the people and communities affected by its decisions."
Paraphrase from State of Calif. - You will only be allowed to buy tires we demand and using the average gasoline per gallon cost of between $5.56/$6.00 a gallon you will recover the cost in a year - forget you might not be able to afford the tires.
The author forgot to mention the pipeline rupture occurred on land and flowed down a creek to the ocean.
The bottom line is the Socialists have controlled the path of government in Calif. since the 1980's. The true path is eventually a Communist System and destruction of the Constitution of the Nation. The now open statements by the surging factions of the Democrat Party by the DSA include comments and statement of "Comrade" and the elimination of borders, police, more.
This might seem a divergent from the problems of the Coastal Commission but it is a comment on the path of the Left that has clearly over taken and now control a very influential sector of the Government of the State of Calif.
I congratulate Leana Levanov on a well written article.
Thank you for the informative article. We should benefit from the offshore oil & gas located in such close proximity. BTW, a study completed in the early 90’s by an industry association; The Oil & Gas Institute, estimated that at current usage there was a 500 year+ supply of natural gas in the US. This is a highly efficient clean burning fuel in plentiful supply that emits 98% fewer hydro carbons than other fossil fuels. Also we can reduce fossil fuel consumption by moving towards nuclear energy with new modular reactors and adequate safeguards against accidents. None of the above eliminates the continued used of efficient internal combustion engines which can run on either refined gasoline or natural gas. The natural gas’s does however require the use of a high strength pressure vessel for storage in lieu of an injection molded plastic fuel tank which is cheaper and easier to design for placement within the automobile chassis. This is an expensive tradeoff which the consumer will naturally resist for economic reasons.Unfortunately only about 15% of our electrical energy needs can be reliably produced by hydro power, wind or solar and Mother Nature, the provider, is often fickle and unreliable.