Please explain to me why you believe Southern California is running out of oil and why you think there is no untapped oil in the San Francisco Bay Area?
I'm confused. Are you unable to read the numbers in
the link I've provided to you several times now? It shows quite clearly that California's oil reserves are relatively small and falling fast. No, I never said there was *no* untapped oil in SF - I said there were not amounts justifying your claim that there is "plenty of oil" in California.
If someone like you would visit California you could see this for yourself.
As I've stated before, I lived the first 34 years of my life in CA, both my parents were born their and all my family still lives there. I visit there yearly.
There are many oil wells which have been shut down not because they were pumped dry.
Yeah, I literally grew up next to them. They produce trivial amounts of oil. Many of them are still pumping though because of sunk costs.
Do you have any idea how much oil is in Southern California? And how that compares to the other states?
Again, are you just trolling or somehow unable to read the link, I've posted several times now?
Once again - from the link - as of the end of 2016 California has 1,933 million barrels reserve. At current rates of consumption that would provide the world with less than 20 days of oil (if we are able to suck every last drop of it out which is unlikely).
From the link above, here is a graph of California's historical decline in it's oil reserves.
Did you post the wrong link, because that one doesn't seem to support your claims?
Yeah - the same info has been presented to him several times in several forms and he seems unable to process it. Also that link underestimates world oil consumption. It is currently
almost 100 million bbl/day.Of course there will always be oil left in the ground. In fact much of the current "proven reserves" will never be extracted since much of if is energetically and economically not viable to extract.
There is a long history of what happens when a resource a population depends on to maintain its numbers is depleted - whether it's a human population or some other animal. Whether it's 20 years from now or 40 years - the information is freely available to give a pretty good idea of what's coming. I think it is cognitive dissonance which just prevents some from acknowledging these facts.