Posted on 06/30/2006 1:16:51 PM PDT by DTogo
No you're not strange, you're just not a militant anti-oil environmentalist whacko. I also enjoyed the views driving up/down 101 at night and when I made it over to DP or Goleta Beach at night. Hopefully we'll be doing so yet again this summer!
U B correct. Those lighted off shore rigs look great on
a beutiful calm full moonlit night. How about building
some junk metal cages, and drop it into the channel, get
lots of fish,....
...some good, practical environmental news from UCSB.
Go Grouchos!
Well, I'll put in a word of support. My wife had a postdoc at UCSB two academic years ago, and I thought the oil rigs were rather pretty at night.
If the oil platforms didn't exist there wouldn't be a beach from the Channel Islands to the Mexican border that wouldn't be covered with tar.
The rigs at Santa Barbara, Long Beach and Seal Beach relieved the gas pressure that used to force thousands of barrels of oil to the surface every day.
When I was a kid in the 40s and went to the beach the first stop coming back was the tin washtub, kerosene and and scrub brush before I was allowed in the house to get the tar off of me.
Even in the 60s you couldn't cross the Horseshoe Kelp without getting the sides of the boat covered with oil and there was an oil slick from there to the Mexican border.
My guess is that there isn't 2% of the population of California that went to the beach in those years and have any idea about what they are bitching about.
But we shouldn't expect the environmentalist whackos and their Limousine Liberal friends to listen to facts...
There used to be so much tar on the beach at Golita that you couldn't hardly walk on it.
If people would go back and look at early Calif, history they would find out that the Spanish used to beach their ships at Golita to tar the bottoms.
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