Californians a big oil producing state. Is energy security really a concern?
It’s true that California is the third largest oil producing state in the nation. However, the state long ago outgrew its own production capacity. Though we get a lot of oil from within California, the state’s oil production peaked in 1986 and is declining, while imports from foreign countries grew four-fold in the past decade. Today California imports 36 of the oil it consumes. If current trends continue that percentage could easily increase by 50 percent over the next decade.
