Offshore Drilling Controversy and Meeting Petroleum Needs
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Your editorial brags that automobiles in California get better gas mileage than automobiles in the rest of the nation. That may be so. What is far more important, and what your editorial conveniently fails to mention, is that gasoline consumption in California increased by more than 17% in the period from 1980 to 1988, whereas the consumption in the nation as a whole increased by less than 9%.
That somehow seems to defeat your argument that we don’t need to drill for oil offshore California. Offshore production of oil is environmentally far preferable to importing oil by tanker. Unless one believes that the stork will bring us all the energy we need, there are no other alternatives.
R.C. VISSER
Rancho Palos Verdes
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