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In article <1160603679.948882.9890@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
   jswatson@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>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%?
>

Irrelevant, as CA oil is co-mingled with TX oil, Kuwaiti oil, etc.  It's a 
world market.

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

You might tell us what Prop 87 is.

>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.
>