Comments on: CNN: Billions of barrels of oil underneath L.A. http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:09:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Dateline>City of Angels » Gushing With Pride: SoCal’s Not So Secret Oil Wells http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50854 Dateline>City of Angels » Gushing With Pride: SoCal’s Not So Secret Oil Wells Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:50:09 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50854 [...] This just in… There’s oil in these here hills. Black gold. Texas tea. Possibly billions of gallons of it, says a CNN Situation Room report observed by Metblog L.A.’s Dave Markland. [...] [...] This just in… There’s oil in these here hills. Black gold. Texas tea. Possibly billions of gallons of it, says a CNN Situation Room report observed by Metblog L.A.’s Dave Markland. [...]

]]> By: Mike Winder http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50830 Mike Winder Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:57:58 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50830 Didn't we learn anything from <em>There Will Be Blood</em>? Let Daniel Plainview of explain this one: "That land has been had. Nothing you can do about it. It's gone. It's had. You lose. ... Drained dry. I'm so sorry. Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake... I... drink... your... milkshake! I drink it up!" Didn’t we learn anything from There Will Be Blood? Let Daniel Plainview of explain this one: "That land has been had. Nothing you can do about it. It’s gone. It’s had. You lose. … Drained dry. I’m so sorry. Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that’s a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake… I… drink… your… milkshake! I drink it up!"

]]> By: thehollywoodjedi http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50808 thehollywoodjedi Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:27:17 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50808 Drill drill drill. Drain the tar pits dry! All available milkshakes must be drinked, especially if Obama isn't open to coastal drilling or nuclear power. LA could practically be Dubai if it wanted it to. Drill drill drill. Drain the tar pits dry! All available milkshakes must be drinked, especially if Obama isn’t open to coastal drilling or nuclear power.

LA could practically be Dubai if it wanted it to.

]]> By: Matt Mason http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50803 Matt Mason Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:08:38 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50803 We should kill two birds with one stone, by extracting the oil while we dig some subway extensions. "And then one day they were tunnelin' some tube, when up from the ground come a bubblin' crude." We should kill two birds with one stone, by extracting the oil while we dig some subway extensions. "And then one day they were tunnelin’ some tube, when up from the ground come a bubblin’ crude."

]]> By: bekkatee http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50801 bekkatee Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:48:15 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50801 There was a very informative Which Way LA/KCRW segment on the oil in LA and the direction things are heading, you can hear it <a href="http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/ww/ww080507urban_oil_in_souther" rel="nofollow">here.</a> http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/ww/ww080507urban_oil_in_souther There was a very informative Which Way LA/KCRW segment on the oil in LA and the direction things are heading, you can hear it here.

http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/ww/ww080507urban_oil_in_souther

]]> By: marshall http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50795 marshall Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:51:21 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50795 If I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room... If I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room…

]]> By: laexpat http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50792 laexpat Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:36:43 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50792 Why not? The oil companies handled that whole "oops -- we flooded Baldwin Vista with oil sludge" thing so well in 1963. They bought the city off and killed a neighborhood. Why not? The oil companies handled that whole "oops — we flooded Baldwin Vista with oil sludge" thing so well in 1963. They bought the city off and killed a neighborhood.

]]> By: frazgo http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50791 frazgo Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:33:14 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50791 Quite true Will, there are also huge fields in Santa Clarita just off the 14, off the 57 too around Diamond Bar I think. Don't forget that even 20 years ago Signal Hill was full of wells and pumps, now its been pretty well bulldozed over and subdivisions installed. It happens. I'm with Mack though free energy like solar needs to be a significant source of energy for those of us in the sun belt. Nuke is another but we need decide once and for all what we will do with the waste in terms of storage. Quite true Will, there are also huge fields in Santa Clarita just off the 14, off the 57 too around Diamond Bar I think.

Don’t forget that even 20 years ago Signal Hill was full of wells and pumps, now its been pretty well bulldozed over and subdivisions installed. It happens.

I’m with Mack though free energy like solar needs to be a significant source of energy for those of us in the sun belt. Nuke is another but we need decide once and for all what we will do with the waste in terms of storage.

]]> By: WILL•I•AM CAMPBELL http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50790 WILL•I•AM CAMPBELL Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:17:46 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50790 Been to Ladera Heights/Baldwin Hills ever? Wonder why those centrally located hilltops with their spectacular views remain dotted with all that bobbing oil equipment going up-n-down instead of blanketed by pricey homes in exclusive gated communities? Been to Ladera Heights/Baldwin Hills ever? Wonder why those centrally located hilltops with their spectacular views remain dotted with all that bobbing oil equipment going up-n-down instead of blanketed by pricey homes in exclusive gated communities?

]]> By: Mack Reed http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50787 Mack Reed Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:31:49 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/24/cnn-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-underneath-la/#comment-50787 Leave it be. Let's spend all that no-future-prospectin' money on developing better solar cells. We're drowning in free energy on that front. Leave it be. Let’s spend all that no-future-prospectin’ money on developing better solar cells. We’re drowning in free energy on that front.

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