BOB2 Wrote:
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> It's quite a terrifying amount of paperwork, ain't
> it...?
>
> Lots of (ranging from interesting to mind
> numbing....) information on the Coast line
> though.
>
> I haven't followed this, so I don't know what
> developed on this. There have been a lot of ups
> and downs in the CA oil markets, and with coast
> oil cans over the last 7 years.
>
> But, I did see empty oil cans going east in what
> appeared to be a unit train going through Truckee.
> And, I did buy some overpriced gasoline last
> week. On the other hand, CA is becoming very oil
> unfriendly, despite a lot of natural gas and oil
> reserves in the Monterey shale.
>
> If we reallly cared about global warming, we'd be
> selling as much CA natural gas to India as we
> could produce, to replace much dirtier coal. But
> rational sensible "triage" and prioritizing
> transitions like that, for solving some of the
> problems we have with wrecking the planet, is
> often less important than political theater
> performed for the enjoyment of the ignorant masses
> (the kind of dubious pandering we're becoming so
> used to from both loony fringes....).
>
> So, I am not too optimistic (or maybe just
> "realistic") about the prospect for projects like
> these in the current environmental environment,
> where increasingly, the unobtainable "perfect" must
> always be the mortal enemy of the merely "good".
>
> Maybe someboddy on the Coast knows if, or how far,
> this project went forward?

Caught the typo...