The President needs to know about this, so he or someone else, can throw it in the hopper for the media.
If the Demo_Rats try to use California as an excuse to fight a Republican budget, we can say "California has plenty of oil to drill for that will do wonders for the economy in the state and for the country..."
I doubt he would care. You need to learn more about how constraining supply to control who makes money is what the oil business is all about.