In Reversal of 2008 Decision, Supervisors Oppose New Offshore Oil Development

» sbnative on 04.08.09 @ 06:03 AM

Typical Santa Barbara. Not in my back yard but let me drive my Hummers, Yukons and Denalis. Not to mention my Escalades, Land Cruisers and Surburbans. Farr is a POOOOORRRRR replacement for a man with the wisdom of Firestone. (And ripped off the election from Pappas.)

Now we’ll all pay the price. IN FORTY YEARS NO ACCIDENTS HAVE HAPPENED & TECHNOLOGY HAS IMPROVED—but we can’t let facts get in the way of rhetoric. Let’s continue to do everything we can to make this city (and this state) a place NOT to do business. And when the immigrants take it over, and return it to the hacienda days, then maybe you will all be happy.

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» Farr out on 04.08.09 @ 08:39 AM

Doreen’s comment is either nonsense or alarming. The bigger question is whether the new majority will now open up every other recent decision made by the previous board that they disagree with. First it was Naples, now it’s oil drilling. Are these all payback votes? Because they sure as hell aren’t doing anything about matters of most importance to their constituents. Like the budget.

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» sbnative on 04.08.09 @ 08:44 PM

If you believe global warming… Gag me. Minds far brighter than any of ours vigorously question this premise. But keep on drivin’ those Denalis like lemmings right off a clff. Michael Crichton wrote all about the “selling of fear” aka, the farce called Global Warming, in “State of Fear.”

Not a one of could rebut ONE of his facts. But again, don’t let facts get in the way of rhetoric.

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» Mother Trucker! on 04.09.09 @ 07:18 AM

This is classic….hay greenies….how’s your garden growing???....I’m sure you grow your own food, and among other things are non-dependant on any item and or items that in some shape or form have petroleum consumption involved it’s process. You ride the electric bus up and down state street, and walk or ride your bike to LA. Next time you put on your brand new hemp made shirt and your Birkenstocks ask yourself how was this item delivered to the store and for such a cheap price. But I forgot you make your own clothing. Such Hypocrites!

The supervises are being very short-sided as to the overall impact this could have. We need to get involved ASAP and understand this before, others do it for us, and then we have a huge problem.

Keep on Truckin!

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» San Roque Resident on 04.09.09 @ 09:48 AM

Funny how hard it is for self-described political “conservatives” to try to conserve any resource, natural, financial, institutional, civic.

Taft, Goldwater, Reagan, were conservatives who believed in conservation. Modern “conservatives” are mis-named.

Our two foreign wars were paid for with borrowed money by Bush and Republican
Congresses. Even before the crash that Bushanomics created, the administration
was running the largest budget deficits since the end of WW II. Yet most of these
angry letter writers were surprisingly silent at what Frist, Hastert, DeLay, Boehner,
Cheney, Greenspan, and Bush had wrought. Why?

Dream on if you wish, but Global Warming is real. Even the free-market, libertarian
Wall Street Journal - while huffing and puffing about it on their editorial pages - privately sponsored their annual, big-ticket workshop at Bacara a few weeks ago on how business and saavy investors should effectively respond to the issue, and the business opportunities that a “greener global economy offer.”

If oil and gas are increasingly scarce, non-renewable resources, most of which are in countries either politically unstable, or increasingly anti-American, why make our economy more dependent, even if you (unlike most scientists who’ve studied the issue) don’t believe in carbon-based global warming?

Peak Oil is an industry concept, not one from the feds or enviros. It means nature takes millions of years to convert sediment into oil and gas deposits. That in the last 150 years, we’ve already used up 45-50% of the world’s easily retrievable, proven supplies. As Will Rogers said 75 years ago: “I invest in land. Last I heard, God isn’t making much more of it.” Ditto for oil and gas.

So as a non-renewable, heavily polluting, highly strategic, economic asset, why use up America’s last proven reserves as fast as possible, as part of no long-term energy independence plan or timetable?

The only reason is to keep a few local roughnecks and oil workers cashing paychecks a few more years. Then, when the fields are played out - global warming or not - it’s done, forever.

Is that what passes for a “plan” in conservative circles these days? In modern times,
only COLAB thinks like that. Not even Rupert Murdoch or Margaret Thatcher think
that way any more.

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