California Oil Production and Prop 87?

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From: jswatson
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:54

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I'm curious to know how many barrels of oil does California take out of
the earth every year?
And what percentage of energy does that represnet in what California
uses:
90%?, 95%, 99%?  Or more like 1%, 5%, 10%?

I'm just wondering, because Al Gore and Barbara Boxer, amoung others,
says that if Prop 87 passes, California will be energy independent from

foreign oil producers.

I wonder if this included Texas.  Or Canada? :-)

So I'm wondering how close this is to being anywhere near the truth ...
or does this more show that they never saw a tax they didn't like?

If I had some feel for how much oil California produces, verses how
much
we import, it might give me a feel for how close we are to becoming
energy independent
anytime soon.

I notice that every major newspaper in CA has come out against Prop 87,
even the San Francisco Chronicle.

And does this "independence from foreign oil" they speak of, factor in
population growth
and the therefore increase in energy requirements of California?

Seems like that is always what they forget about in these little
"energy independence"
schemes of theirs: that California is growing by about 500,000 people
every year.

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