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Originally Posted by sammyg2
Any tar on that beach came from NATURAL seepage.
There is oil under almost all of the ground of So Cal. Some of it comes to the surface under the ocean, mostly prevalent in Santa Barbara and Carpinteria, but it also seeps from long beach up to Malibu.
But cha can't blame it on big bad companies, it's all mother nature.
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Well put Sammy.
What really pisses me off is that everyone who lives here knows the tar has gone WAY down, but you can't get the enviro-wackos to admit it. I drove past Gaviota the last time a pipe leaked - it was easily 3 reporters for every worker, and the oil dissipated immediately. Oil companies get all the blame for the bad and none of the credit for the good.
"Next time you step on a glob of tar on a beach in Santa Barbara County, you can thank the oil companies that it isn't a bigger glob.
The same is true around the world, on other beaches where off-shore oil drilling occurs, say scientists, although Santa Barbara's oil seeps are thought to be among the leakiest.
Natural seepage of hydrocarbons from the ocean floor in the northern Santa Barbara Channel has been significantly reduced by oil production, according to two recently published peer-reviewed articles, one in November's Geology Magazine, the other in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans...
The studies were not funded by oil companies, but rather by the University of California Energy Institute and the U.S. Minerals Management Service, states Luyendyk, responding to the fact that the results favor off-shore oil production and are opposed by some environmentalists."
OIL AND GAS SEEPAGE FROM OCEAN FLOOR _x000B_ REDUCED BY OIL PRODUCTION | The UCSB Current
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