Comments on: CA fossil-fuel foes want to ban more than just fracking

By: CA fossil-fuel foes want to ban more than just fracking - Californians for Energy Independence

Wed, 20 May 2015 00:26:57 +0000

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By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 19:21:01 +0000

Sounds about right!

By: vonborks

vonborks — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 01:47:49 +0000

Just what is it about Jerry Brown’s long term fracking plan that the activists don’t understand? Hey you people, Jerry is on your side, he simply wants to frack it up to make it easier to suck it all up and then export all that oil and natural gas to foreign markets, the billion$ in profits to be used to provide more solar and wind subsidies and to fund his train so you old gone to seed SoCal hippies and new ippies can snooze and schmooze a few hours in-route to visiting your old San Francisco breeding grounds, and what’s not to like about that?

By: Donkey

Donkey — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:31:41 +0000

The eco-nuts are running the crazy RAGWUS in California. 🙂

By: Queeg

Queeg — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 05:30:35 +0000

There is a point where it ends. The constant assault on the hard earned income of the working poor and middle class.

By: Ronald Stein

Ronald Stein — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 22:08:06 +0000

The American economy and lifestyle to which we have become accustomed is being challenged by our need for oil.

Oil is the foundation of the California economy and its mobility for 38 million citizens. More than 97% of California’s 32,000,000 vehicles DO NOT run on electricity or other alternative fuels.

The current California vehicle registration in 2012 was 32,000,000 (2,662 billion miles driven) and the consumption of transportation fuels was 50,000,000 gallons EVERY DAY, or an average of about 1.5 gallons per day per vehicle.

Vehicle registration is projected to grow 37% from 32,000,000 to 44,000,000 vehicles by 2030 and 3,138 billion miles projected to be driven (18% increase). The fuel demand is projected to decrease slightly from the current 50,000,000 gallons per DAY mostly as a result of more fuel efficiencies, and a slight impact by the small number of vehicles run on electricity or other alternative fuels.

EVERY CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY is dependent on energy from the petrochemical sector as well as the by-products from oil for their existence to support the lifestyle and standard of living that we have become accustomed.
Oil supply from California and Alaska is now less than 50%. To support the California economy, in state oil would be less expensive and more environmentally effective than meeting our needs with crude oil by trucks or rail into California.

We definitely need safe, economical, and reliable sources of energy to maintain our lifestyle and economy, but beating up on the ONE industry that supports all the other industries appears to be a way of shooting ourselves in the foot.