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High Gas Prices? The Diablo is on the Dais!

By Andy Caldwell

Sep 27, 2026
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Santa Barbara County supervisors did their part to make fuel more expensive when they passed an ordinance to ban new onshore oil and gas drilling in the county. You can say that the supes didn’t miss the elephant in the room – the foreign oil tanker – when they took this action.

As California has been shutting down the oil industry in our state, the only…

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