Imagining California Without Oil Refineries; the Car and Freeway culture;
Imagining California Without Oil Refineries : "Imagining California Without Oil Refineries 13 Nov 2015 Written by Lisa Margonelli Imagining California Without Oil Refineries Print Email 13 Nov 2015 Written by Lisa Margonelli WHO WE ARE--On the morning of May 31, Robert Hubina hurt his foot, so he skipped surfing to walk on the beach in Ventura, where he saw a dolphin with black tar in its mouth, lying dead amongst the rocks. He quickly realized it came from the 100,000 gallon Goleta oil pipeline spill north of Santa Barbara and took a photo with his camera. Then he saw another dolphin and photographed that, too. The two photos were shared more than 2,300 times on Facebook, with people adding anti-oil hashtags, including #leaveoilinthesoil. The history and idea of California are so tied up with oil—from the oil fields of Bakersfield and Signal Hill to millionaires like J. Paul Getty and Armand Hammer to the state’s famous car-and-freeway culture—that it is...