If “California must now import 75% of the oil it consumes”, will the recent allocation of the oil rich Pacific Ocean along Santa Barbara County as an extension of the Chumash Reserve further limit or increase the potential for oil production? Aren’t Chumash exempt from
County laws and/or ordinances? I vaguely recall decades ago that Chumash agreed as a condition of approval not to use gaming casino proceeds to buy up more County lands but then that treaty or agreement became non binding because recognized indigenous tribes are exempt from restrictions or laws applicable to American non-indigenous … or something like that. It’s all complex.
I’m grateful to you Andy for your concise, condensed articles focused on high priority topics.
Ag restrictions on groundwater use is huge! Thanks for underscoring that again we well-intentioned, emotional (stupid) voters based a major bond for creation of essential water storage — dams—and like always nothing happens. Reminds me of $400M bond passed for shelters for unhoused/ homeless that disappeared into politician owned la la land. Why anyone votes for passage of a CA bond given that they’re never used for their intended purpose is a research study!
Remember the excited passage of Measure D bonds for essential road improvements that somehow became A or something for the millions of approved funding to then be spent on bike lanes and other wasteful projects to restrict or limit vehicles on roads? The County’s Dictate: Anyone who can’t transport their family on a bike, needs to move.
The so-called Chumash Marine Sanctuary was NOT proposed by the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. Instead it was the brainchild of a different tribe with virtually no members from SLO County! And yet only the SY Chumash are an officially recognized Tribe.
Thank you Andy for sounding multiple alarms for the pending County and State financial disaster. The County’s war on fossil fuels is not only a disaster for consumers but also to our County by way of taxes and royalties. How will the loss to tax base be recuperated from revenues? From weed sales?
The “Chumash Marine Sanctuary Act,” is no more than a land grab and amounts to a cabal with radical environmentalists in the Sierra Club and SurfRider. To give almost 5,000 square miles to a tribe based on race is outrageous! Yes, there is a carve out around Morro Bay in order to facilitate a wind farm! So, basically our federal government has acquiesced federal waters in order to appease radical environmentalists and keep oil production out! Further, when you calculate the number of 501c3 “land trusts” are removed from County tax roles, the amount would easily be hundreds of millions in lost revenue. All when we are at record mass deficits!
To remove our local oil producers is an outrageous, self inflicted wound and to remove oil refineries from the supply chain is foolish and a clear threat to our national security.
What’s next, close Diablo Nuclear Plant? No, it dawned on even Newsom, that our electricity has to come from somewhere!
Yes, leftist activists in our government are not only at war with oil companies but at war with agriculture as well. Go figure, lefty control of not only our energy production, but our food supply as well. What could possibly go wrong? This concerted effort by leftist activists to control our food and energy supply is a classic example of the “enemy from within!”
Apparently, Newsom never watched the movie Soylent Green with Edward G. Robinson sitting on a bicycle-generator creating his own apartment power. Yes, power has to come from somewhere and some of it comes from solar panels and windmills. When driving through northern Texas I was amazed at the many miles and miles of power generating windmills. Of course, windmills are great if there's wind and solar panels are nice if it's sunny. And a bicycle generator is great if you are eating your neighbor (Soylent green crackers) for energy. The Democrat Party is the biggest Mafia operation in history.
Thanks Andy for all the work you do on behalf of this beautiful, abused state.
On the national front, the Democrats are clearly in a state of panic. Even their propaganda mainstream news machine is in chaos, with only the cult members masquerading as journalists still carrying on.
Is this going to make the blue states reconsider their suicidal strategies? I certainly hope so. Even Newsom seems to be trying to position himself more in the center. He looks so furious about being passed over for Kamala that I keep thinking he just might leave the party.
It seems to me that in the next few years that California residents might have a chance to save agriculture, gas, trucking - and our ability to afford to live here. Even if the Democrats win in CA, they've got to be aware that a growing number of Californians are angry. And that their days in power are numbered. That's why I'm grateful to people like you, Andy, who are continuing the fight to save the state. I think we have a better chance now than we've had in years.
I know we need to band together as citizens. But I feel so exhausted from this election year - just as a voter! - all I want to do is mellow out with some Chet Baker playing, make some Korean Short Rib tacos today, read a 19th century novel and forget about current day politics. So thank you for writing this and reminding me it's not over even if they can't cheat Trump out of victory.
Im feeling the same way...... i gonna go trim some trees, do some painting and make my little corner of the world prettier. Then i'll come over for tacos!!
Much like the train from L.A. to San Francisco that regulators turned into the "train to nowhere," the regulators ran aerospace, and the making of many movies, out of the state ,and are working on restaurants as they have to compete with the $15/hour the state ordered fast food to pay, and their attempt to make uber drivers employees, is it now time to add agriculture to the decades long attack on oil and gas? Transportation should be interesting if Musk stops building charging stations, or Californians turn against Tesla because of Musk's political affiliation.
While the politicians are filling their pockets with cash from these scams, they divert attention to them by these so-called "causes." Causes they probably don't even care anything about. The Dem cuckoos, the brainless "Greta Thunberg" equivalents, in turn come out of the woodwork to publicize and carry out these diversions.
Affected farmland would be purchased cheaply by buyers taking advantage of the desperate farmers.
Only to have buyers taking financial gains. Follow the money trail. Politicians should be required each year to release their net worth. If you're dizzy trying to follow all the goofy things going on with no obvious, logical reason, then we need to look at the "whys" which is probably financial gains by a few. Interesting Bill Gates is buying farmland ... don't have to think any further where the farmland if going to.
Andy, again, you remind us of the abuse of power in a one-party state that dictates policy not only at state level, also in a cascade of control down through the counties and cities.
We get what the majority of voters seem to want.
When they realize the size of the hole the government politicians and their bureaucrats are digging for us all, it will be too late.
Your article promoted me to explore the facts about how reliant we are on agriculture.
There are 23.8 million acres of land in farming. The value of the farming industry in California is $57.7 Billion annually.
In its annual peak season it employs 900,000 workers. That is the equivalent of 450,000 workers annually.
In the 1960's, government focus on improving water supply and retention was high. Since then, the focus has been more on perenial goverment orders to everyone to reduce consumption of water. Not on increasing the supply through building new reservoirs, and other means of potable water production, even though droughts have become more frequent, and since 1960, the population has increased dramatically.
We gotta stop hoping California’s voters come to their senses and throw the bums out! Why? Because the average voter doesn’t have any sense! They keep buying the Commie-Dem’s lies and dopey dreams about turning the state, the country and the world into lollipops and butterflies where everybody loves each other and there’s no more crime, pollution or ‘disagreeable things.’
We need to sell them on practical solutions like a typical corporation introduces, pitches and promotes a new product. Big ads, lots of glitz, videos and fun stuff on TV showing how things could be.
Hey! If someone was able to make Super Beets, of all things, appealing and desirable, we can sell the average California knucklehead on _anything_!
How many generations of K-12 students were taught "climate change" across the curriculum, to now become fully indoctrinated voters.
20 years ago I attended a student production at La Cumber Jr High. The hallways were fully pasted with "climate change" student art projects. Weeping globes, stranded polar bears ...every possible trite iteration had been deeply embedded in those young minds. When did this "climate change" rush into K-12 curriculum, with this full-throated institutional support?
What young people learn to express in such vivid misrepresentations, it is very hard to dislodge this later. They are now a growing demographic lump as they move into voting adulthood. They were presented no other side, so they now intend to take everyone down with them. Save those starving polar bears.
(Except the polar bears are now in over-population and will starve for real after their protected numbers strip out all available food resources. Plus that was a fake summer photo on a iceberg near the shoreline anyway)
Cars Are Basic, has always fought for the best and most economical transportation that includes fuel roads, bridges etc.
The question becomes one of when will the general public realize the failure of a quarter of a century of bad planning? Remember the attempt of Carbajal to force work vans on the Ag. workers of norht county and they refused to use them? CAB was there and in Spanish (espanol) spoke to the BOS and the union rep. The fight (and that is what it is) is about control. The Greenland Glacier Study disproved the average thousands of years temperature (all part of the world is burning)... CAB just forwarded a tight scientific study that the El Nino oscillations are and were responsible for West Coast warming. Once again disproving the issue of carbon being the boggy man of climate.
This makes Sacramento and the sky is falling crowd look very, very bad.
CAB will end with this..... Why was there Global Cooling during World War II when steel plants were running full on, bombs and munitions were being used, and mining was at an all time high in all Hemispheres. Why was the Battle of the Bulge was fought in one of the coldest winters?
My answer to your last question is human population. In WWII it was 2.5 billion, in my first year of life in 1960 it was 3 billion. Now it's over 8 billion and each one of those humans want the same standard of living we enjoy.
BTW, in the 39 years I've lived here the last month has been the foggiest and coolest I ever remember. And I don't know why but it depresses me. I want to see that October sun.
You can see that WWII was just a blip in global steel prodctuction of the past 100 years and the past 50 years production dwarfs everything. Same with concrete. I appreciate you analogies but the scale of the world is so much more vast than I think most of us can appreciate.
The "scale of the world is so much more vast than I think most of us can appreciate." Is an interesting statement. I refer you to the intense and long term Greenland glacial study. Greenland stated for decades state their glaciers were melting from the bottom up not as a result of atmospheric warming. They then started doing core samples going back thousands if not millions of years. The study measured carbon, atmospheric particulates, temperature, and a whole bunch more. The outcome was the average temperature used by the global warming crowed was and is 4 degrees colder then their measurements.
The conclusion by their scientists was they inadvertently picked one of the coldest periods that then justifies their alarm bells. Using the Greenland measurements the increase of global warming has yet to meet 1 full degree to their average of 4 degrees.
I'm just commenting that your view of steel use seems way off if you're saying WWII was some monumental push in steel manufacture. But now that we're here - can you support the claim of a 4°C discrepancy between measured temperatures? That seems like something from X or such.
If “California must now import 75% of the oil it consumes”, will the recent allocation of the oil rich Pacific Ocean along Santa Barbara County as an extension of the Chumash Reserve further limit or increase the potential for oil production? Aren’t Chumash exempt from
County laws and/or ordinances? I vaguely recall decades ago that Chumash agreed as a condition of approval not to use gaming casino proceeds to buy up more County lands but then that treaty or agreement became non binding because recognized indigenous tribes are exempt from restrictions or laws applicable to American non-indigenous … or something like that. It’s all complex.
I’m grateful to you Andy for your concise, condensed articles focused on high priority topics.
Ag restrictions on groundwater use is huge! Thanks for underscoring that again we well-intentioned, emotional (stupid) voters based a major bond for creation of essential water storage — dams—and like always nothing happens. Reminds me of $400M bond passed for shelters for unhoused/ homeless that disappeared into politician owned la la land. Why anyone votes for passage of a CA bond given that they’re never used for their intended purpose is a research study!
Remember the excited passage of Measure D bonds for essential road improvements that somehow became A or something for the millions of approved funding to then be spent on bike lanes and other wasteful projects to restrict or limit vehicles on roads? The County’s Dictate: Anyone who can’t transport their family on a bike, needs to move.
The so-called Chumash Marine Sanctuary was NOT proposed by the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. Instead it was the brainchild of a different tribe with virtually no members from SLO County! And yet only the SY Chumash are an officially recognized Tribe.
Thank you Andy for sounding multiple alarms for the pending County and State financial disaster. The County’s war on fossil fuels is not only a disaster for consumers but also to our County by way of taxes and royalties. How will the loss to tax base be recuperated from revenues? From weed sales?
The “Chumash Marine Sanctuary Act,” is no more than a land grab and amounts to a cabal with radical environmentalists in the Sierra Club and SurfRider. To give almost 5,000 square miles to a tribe based on race is outrageous! Yes, there is a carve out around Morro Bay in order to facilitate a wind farm! So, basically our federal government has acquiesced federal waters in order to appease radical environmentalists and keep oil production out! Further, when you calculate the number of 501c3 “land trusts” are removed from County tax roles, the amount would easily be hundreds of millions in lost revenue. All when we are at record mass deficits!
To remove our local oil producers is an outrageous, self inflicted wound and to remove oil refineries from the supply chain is foolish and a clear threat to our national security.
What’s next, close Diablo Nuclear Plant? No, it dawned on even Newsom, that our electricity has to come from somewhere!
Yes, leftist activists in our government are not only at war with oil companies but at war with agriculture as well. Go figure, lefty control of not only our energy production, but our food supply as well. What could possibly go wrong? This concerted effort by leftist activists to control our food and energy supply is a classic example of the “enemy from within!”
Well said.
Apparently, Newsom never watched the movie Soylent Green with Edward G. Robinson sitting on a bicycle-generator creating his own apartment power. Yes, power has to come from somewhere and some of it comes from solar panels and windmills. When driving through northern Texas I was amazed at the many miles and miles of power generating windmills. Of course, windmills are great if there's wind and solar panels are nice if it's sunny. And a bicycle generator is great if you are eating your neighbor (Soylent green crackers) for energy. The Democrat Party is the biggest Mafia operation in history.
Thanks Andy for all the work you do on behalf of this beautiful, abused state.
On the national front, the Democrats are clearly in a state of panic. Even their propaganda mainstream news machine is in chaos, with only the cult members masquerading as journalists still carrying on.
Is this going to make the blue states reconsider their suicidal strategies? I certainly hope so. Even Newsom seems to be trying to position himself more in the center. He looks so furious about being passed over for Kamala that I keep thinking he just might leave the party.
It seems to me that in the next few years that California residents might have a chance to save agriculture, gas, trucking - and our ability to afford to live here. Even if the Democrats win in CA, they've got to be aware that a growing number of Californians are angry. And that their days in power are numbered. That's why I'm grateful to people like you, Andy, who are continuing the fight to save the state. I think we have a better chance now than we've had in years.
I know we need to band together as citizens. But I feel so exhausted from this election year - just as a voter! - all I want to do is mellow out with some Chet Baker playing, make some Korean Short Rib tacos today, read a 19th century novel and forget about current day politics. So thank you for writing this and reminding me it's not over even if they can't cheat Trump out of victory.
Im feeling the same way...... i gonna go trim some trees, do some painting and make my little corner of the world prettier. Then i'll come over for tacos!!
You're a painter?
sometimes. Currently finding myself recording old dead trees on the ranch - painting with sticks and india ink. story within a story
Sounds wonderful.
Much like the train from L.A. to San Francisco that regulators turned into the "train to nowhere," the regulators ran aerospace, and the making of many movies, out of the state ,and are working on restaurants as they have to compete with the $15/hour the state ordered fast food to pay, and their attempt to make uber drivers employees, is it now time to add agriculture to the decades long attack on oil and gas? Transportation should be interesting if Musk stops building charging stations, or Californians turn against Tesla because of Musk's political affiliation.
While the politicians are filling their pockets with cash from these scams, they divert attention to them by these so-called "causes." Causes they probably don't even care anything about. The Dem cuckoos, the brainless "Greta Thunberg" equivalents, in turn come out of the woodwork to publicize and carry out these diversions.
Affected farmland would be purchased cheaply by buyers taking advantage of the desperate farmers.
Only to have buyers taking financial gains. Follow the money trail. Politicians should be required each year to release their net worth. If you're dizzy trying to follow all the goofy things going on with no obvious, logical reason, then we need to look at the "whys" which is probably financial gains by a few. Interesting Bill Gates is buying farmland ... don't have to think any further where the farmland if going to.
Andy, again, you remind us of the abuse of power in a one-party state that dictates policy not only at state level, also in a cascade of control down through the counties and cities.
We get what the majority of voters seem to want.
When they realize the size of the hole the government politicians and their bureaucrats are digging for us all, it will be too late.
Your article promoted me to explore the facts about how reliant we are on agriculture.
There are 23.8 million acres of land in farming. The value of the farming industry in California is $57.7 Billion annually.
In its annual peak season it employs 900,000 workers. That is the equivalent of 450,000 workers annually.
In the 1960's, government focus on improving water supply and retention was high. Since then, the focus has been more on perenial goverment orders to everyone to reduce consumption of water. Not on increasing the supply through building new reservoirs, and other means of potable water production, even though droughts have become more frequent, and since 1960, the population has increased dramatically.
We gotta stop hoping California’s voters come to their senses and throw the bums out! Why? Because the average voter doesn’t have any sense! They keep buying the Commie-Dem’s lies and dopey dreams about turning the state, the country and the world into lollipops and butterflies where everybody loves each other and there’s no more crime, pollution or ‘disagreeable things.’
We need to sell them on practical solutions like a typical corporation introduces, pitches and promotes a new product. Big ads, lots of glitz, videos and fun stuff on TV showing how things could be.
Hey! If someone was able to make Super Beets, of all things, appealing and desirable, we can sell the average California knucklehead on _anything_!
How many generations of K-12 students were taught "climate change" across the curriculum, to now become fully indoctrinated voters.
20 years ago I attended a student production at La Cumber Jr High. The hallways were fully pasted with "climate change" student art projects. Weeping globes, stranded polar bears ...every possible trite iteration had been deeply embedded in those young minds. When did this "climate change" rush into K-12 curriculum, with this full-throated institutional support?
What young people learn to express in such vivid misrepresentations, it is very hard to dislodge this later. They are now a growing demographic lump as they move into voting adulthood. They were presented no other side, so they now intend to take everyone down with them. Save those starving polar bears.
(Except the polar bears are now in over-population and will starve for real after their protected numbers strip out all available food resources. Plus that was a fake summer photo on a iceberg near the shoreline anyway)
Cars Are Basic, has always fought for the best and most economical transportation that includes fuel roads, bridges etc.
The question becomes one of when will the general public realize the failure of a quarter of a century of bad planning? Remember the attempt of Carbajal to force work vans on the Ag. workers of norht county and they refused to use them? CAB was there and in Spanish (espanol) spoke to the BOS and the union rep. The fight (and that is what it is) is about control. The Greenland Glacier Study disproved the average thousands of years temperature (all part of the world is burning)... CAB just forwarded a tight scientific study that the El Nino oscillations are and were responsible for West Coast warming. Once again disproving the issue of carbon being the boggy man of climate.
This makes Sacramento and the sky is falling crowd look very, very bad.
CAB will end with this..... Why was there Global Cooling during World War II when steel plants were running full on, bombs and munitions were being used, and mining was at an all time high in all Hemispheres. Why was the Battle of the Bulge was fought in one of the coldest winters?
My answer to your last question is human population. In WWII it was 2.5 billion, in my first year of life in 1960 it was 3 billion. Now it's over 8 billion and each one of those humans want the same standard of living we enjoy.
BTW, in the 39 years I've lived here the last month has been the foggiest and coolest I ever remember. And I don't know why but it depresses me. I want to see that October sun.
You can see that WWII was just a blip in global steel prodctuction of the past 100 years and the past 50 years production dwarfs everything. Same with concrete. I appreciate you analogies but the scale of the world is so much more vast than I think most of us can appreciate.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Development-of-crude-steel-production-in-the-world-and-in-China-since-1900_fig1_322712190
The "scale of the world is so much more vast than I think most of us can appreciate." Is an interesting statement. I refer you to the intense and long term Greenland glacial study. Greenland stated for decades state their glaciers were melting from the bottom up not as a result of atmospheric warming. They then started doing core samples going back thousands if not millions of years. The study measured carbon, atmospheric particulates, temperature, and a whole bunch more. The outcome was the average temperature used by the global warming crowed was and is 4 degrees colder then their measurements.
The conclusion by their scientists was they inadvertently picked one of the coldest periods that then justifies their alarm bells. Using the Greenland measurements the increase of global warming has yet to meet 1 full degree to their average of 4 degrees.
I'm just commenting that your view of steel use seems way off if you're saying WWII was some monumental push in steel manufacture. But now that we're here - can you support the claim of a 4°C discrepancy between measured temperatures? That seems like something from X or such.
Good luck Earl!