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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%?
>
> 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.

Well, this report tells you everything you want to know about
California oil production except (unless I missed it) what percentage
of California's own energy needs it safisfies.  I had no idea
California produced so much oil.  They rank fourth in the United States
in production behind Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska.

ftp://ftp.consrv.ca.gov/pub/oil/annual_reports/2005/0101summary1_05.pdf

Charles R. Whealton
Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com

Thanks,
that report roughly corresponds to another I found on CA Production,
which stated:

California Oil Production
(From http://www.energy.ca.gov/oil/index.html):
"Crude oil production in California averaged 731,150 barrels per day in
2004" (0.73 millioin bbl/day)
"4.7 percent from 2003"

I did a rough calculation of CA consumption based on:
    CIA WOrld Factbook:
    For the  USA:
   Oil - consumption:
   20.03 million bbl/day (2003 est.)

And
California Population: 36,132,147 (Wikipedia).
US Population: 300,327,03

Assuming Californians are use about the same about of oil as
the rest of USAians, that means :

CA Population as a percentage of US  is 0.12031
Since California is 12.03% of the US Population, we can guesstimate
that California uses 12.03%
of the Oil consumed in the US, therefore about 2.41 million bbl/day.

So California uses roughly 3.3 times more oil every day than it
produces.


On Oct 11, 3:42 pm, "Chuck Whealton" <chuck_wheal...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> jswat...@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%?
>
> > 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.Well, this report tells you everything you want to know about
> California oil production except (unless I missed it) what percentage
> of California's own energy needs it safisfies.  I had no idea
> California produced so much oil.  They rank fourth in the United States
> in production behind Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska.
>
> ftp://ftp.consrv.ca.gov/pub/oil/annual_reports/2005/0101summary1_05.pdf
>
> Charles R. Whealton
> Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -

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.
>

On Thu, 12 Oct 06 09:40:34 GMT, lparker@emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote:

>
>You might tell us what Prop 87 is.
>

    It aims to put a wellhead tax on oil production in California and use the
money raised (est. $4B) to develop alternative energy systems.

http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/vig_06/general_06/pdf/proposition_87/entire_prop87.pdf

<jswatson@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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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.
>


In the grand scheme of things, Calif is no more dependent on foreign oil 
that the rest of the country.