{"id":18,"date":"2008-08-16T08:51:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T08:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2008-08-16T08:51:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T08:51:39","slug":"offshore_drilling_in_californi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Offshore Drilling in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the arguments against drilling off the California coastline some things have been left out.&nbsp; For instance&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mms.gov\/omm\/pacific\/enviro\/seeps1.htm\">seepage.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The US Department of Interior has a website which talks about this phenomenon in the link above.&nbsp;&nbsp;The article cited is by James M. Galloway, Geologist, Pacific OCS Region.&nbsp; In the article he states, &#8220;Two small underwater containment structures positioned near Goleta Point, placed to collect natural seepage, have alone captured over 4 billion cubic feet of natural gas since 1982: enough natural gas to supply the needs of over 25,000 residential natural gas users each year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am one of the least scientific people I know, but it seems to me that if the oil and gas are already seeping into the ocean and &#8220;Today, especially on a warm summer day, a person driving through Santa Paula will smell petroleum fumes and notice thick, black crude oil running down the side of the road&#8221; the logical thing to do is put in some sort of oil well that will not only prevent seepage by giving&nbsp;the oil and gas&nbsp;a place to go, but help power America and help the state of California deal with its massive budget problems.&nbsp; It would seem to me that it is better for the envirnment not to be smelling gas and oil fumes as you drive along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the arguments against drilling off the California coastline some things have been left out.&nbsp; For instance&#8211;seepage.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The US Department of Interior has a website which talks about this phenomenon in the link above.&nbsp;&nbsp;The article cited is by James M. Galloway, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}