Oil rigs off the Santa Monica Coast? Could it happen as Bush asks Congress to approve offshore oil drilling

June 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Drilling for oil of the coast of california

Could you imagine seeing the site of Oil Rigs off the coast of Santa Monica, Malibu, or Hermosa Beach? Bush asked Congress today for approval for offshore oil drilling. I am just as depressed as every Angeleno with the nearly $5/gal gas prices, but I still can not picture sitting on the beach and staring off to a beautiful So Cal sunset with burning tower and plumes of smoke coming off a platform of an oil rig. In reality I have no idea the details of this, maybe they will be miles off the coast where no one could see them. But the whole idea is scary as the news keeps talking about the huge environmental disaster that was the Santa Barbara Oil spill of 1969. Kind of scary since tourism is such a big revenue generator for the state and we have spent million in tax dollars trying to keep the beaches clean. Our economy revolves around Hollywood and the Beach, could you imagine loosing that kind of tourist revenue, hell California is hurting enough anyway! AHHH, we’re all doomed. Santa Barbara california Oil Spill of 1969

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4 responses so far ↓

1 Ling // Jun 19, 2008

Hey, I thought this drilling thing was just off Florida. I don’t want no rigs off California. Hope Congress will stall and kill off the proposal. Anyway, its not its going to have a long-lasting impact on oil prices. Its going to shoot up whether or not you start drilling offshore.
2 The-Dude // Jun 19, 2008

Arnold is pushing back, but you know if Florida does it, all states may soon follow suit. Nice to see Arnie taking a strong stance on it though.

But I agree with you Ling, drilling or not, fuel prices are gonna skyrocker!
3 Mike from Credit Card Forum // Jun 27, 2008

What I don’t understand is supposedly in Wyoming and North Dakota we’re sitting on 2 trillion (yes, with a “T”) barrels of oil shale but we’re not drilling it. That’s more than Saudi Arabia. That’s where we need to drill, and no worries about oil spills on our beaches that way!
4 Nick // Jul 2, 2008

Another point of contention is that ~66% of the land leases that oil companies are already currently sitting on are not being used. Why open up even more land, whether it be off the coast of Malibu or all the way up in ANWR, when the majority of the land they already have been given the OK to fuck up is just sitting there? This is quite blatantly an end-of-term land grab by the government’s “oil buddies” before the possibility of them not having (as much of) a tool in the White House.