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Can we do it? Yes we can

Looks nice doesnt it? Must be some sort of Modern office building somewhere in Hawaii right? Well this structure sits on an artificial island in the Harbor of Long Beach California, Its named for one of the Apollo Astronauts, Gus Grissom.

So what is it? Why its an oil rig! Its designed to be both pleasing to the eye, as well as lower the industrial sound levels through the creative use of waterfalls and sound suppression panels. There are 4 islands like this one in sitting right in Long Beach harbor. All are within eyesight of the scenic Pacific Coast highway, a number of schools and office buildings, not to mention the recreational beaches.

This is the face of modern oil drilling, even though this was created in 1964 prior to the ever-so-not-forgotten Santa Barbara blowout in 1968. There is also an oil refinery just up the coast in Carson California. In California, oil is available, it can be drilled, pumped, pipelined to the refinery and brought to the consumer in a way thats cheaper, neater, faster and I dare say "greener" than most anywhere on earth.

What the Sierra club and the rest of the "green-shirts" would prefer we do is pump oil from Nigeria, then ship it to Japan for refinement and then use it in California all for "the sake of the environment" as if Nigeria, Japan and the vast oceans inbetween simply dont count in the equations of "environment". If you take into consideration that the State of California is currently at a 28 BILLION dollar budget deficit, you might think that the first thing they would think about was raising money through the use of new oil leases. This is what the City of Long Beach does with the oil that it sits on. Long Beach generates a fair amount of its budget comes directly from oil revenues.

More details can be found here.

Can we drill for oil and live side by side with it? Yes we can, because I can show you that weve been doing that for a long time already.

Posted @ July 23, 2008 07:27 PM | Current Affairs

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