‘Major’ Oil Spill Off California Coast Threatens Wetlands and Wildlife

A pipeline failure sent at least 126,000 gallons of oil into the Pacific off the coast of Orange County, creating a 13-square-mile slick. Dead fish and birds washed ashore in some areas.

 

Orange county is just south of LA, just south of where they pour all their sewage into the ocean. It may be sensitive wetlands, but their days are numbered.

 

Perhaps this accident will help the US to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels rather sooner than it previously wanted to.

 

The US depends on oil, simply because the rest of the world depends on oil. A quarter of the world's economy still depends on the export of fossil fuels and, without a world economy, the wheels won't go round.

 

This is closer to middle class suburbs in Orange county, and a military base, with the uber wealthy tending to live north of LA, where its less of a desert and less polluted. Military bases are among the worst polluters, no regulation.

 

Nothing will happen / change until the oil runs out (still huge MONEY to be made) or some truly horrendous catastrophe takes place. But that more than likely won't stop the oil and auto industries from fighting a changeover to clean energy. The auto industry is still cranking out gas fueled vehicles by the millions.

 

And we still aren't willing to mine the minerals needed for "green energy" here in the US.

 

The point at which ALL gas / diesel vehicles become obsolete must truly be a nightmare for the auto industry.

 

Its been a few decades since I've been there. In fact, I remember when there were still orange groves.

Three million dollars is a piss in the bucket. The kind of house people might build on a national forest border, then complain when it burns down. Upper middle class, beach houses and whatnot. Nice, but not a mansion.