Sometimes it is hard to imagine just how stupid California legislators and regulators can be.
If you recall, for 68 years there was an oil facility in Nipomo, known as the Santa Maria Refinery, that treated oil produced from the Santa Maria Valley and received by pipeline. After treatment there, another pipeline sent the semi-refined oil to the Bay area …
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