By KAREN VELIE The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday to deny a request by ExxonMobil to restart offshore oil wells shut down in 2015 following the worst coastal oil spi…
So if it’s really “all about the environment” then why is your old doddering fool of a President begging Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for more oil? It makes no sense. We explore, drill, extract, and refine oil here in the United States far cleaner and efficiently than any other country. So why don’t we ban all exports, and continue to produce a gradually reduced amount here in the U.S.A.? Instead, we increase our dependence for oil on countries that have little to no regard for climate change.
HOW IS IT that a country of 320 million people is going to make any dent in climate change by sending more and more of it’s manufacturing to a country of 1.4 billion people who has done almost nothing to improve the health of its climate nor environment? Now we beg for dirtier oil produced in climate irresponsible countries.
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