I may be out of the loop, but I thought the Richmond refinery was still running? For non-Cali-fags, Richmond (right across the bay from San Francisco and slightly north of notoriously liberal Berkeley) is Chevron’s HQ and there is a giant refinery there (have several chemical engineering classmates who got jobs there). It’s even funnier because on a clear day, you can see it from SF.
El Segundo (between LA and Long Beach) has a giant oil refinery as well — in fact that whole region of SoCal is loaded with oil infrastructure (it’s not advertised for obvious reasons). Besides the refineries, there are oil wells offshore (you can see them from most of our beaches) and inland, but California tries to hide them (making fake buildings around derricks, etc).
Oil is a huge part of California’s economy and history, but we can’t talk about it (Sacremento loves the tax revenue though). Only deep red Bakersfield in inland Kern county openly support the oil industry (and they hate the Bay Area and LA).
Also, our two working nuclear power plants got shut down. Our massive agricultural lands are being used for water-hungry almonds and water-hungry wineries that lose money and are used by the wealthy for tax write-offs). Technology and chip manufacturing has left the state, and new construction is capped by Byzantine bureaucracy, so nothing can be changed.
I weep for my ancestral homeland California and it’s lost potential.
schtick for too long. He can't cuck out now.
