Starting in 1960s state should have started charging well owners an annual license fee so that the state would have a funding mechanism to contract out to permanently plug idle or abandoned wells.
The old wells cannot produce enough oil to pay for the electricity to run their pumps. The USA exports approximately 30% of crude oil from fracking, called light sweet crud. It is exported because the 132 refineries in the USA cannot afford to convert their infrastructure from sour crude oil. The United States imports about 52% of the crude oil it consumes, even though it produces a significant amount domestically. This reliance on imports is due to outdated refineries; crude oil can sometimes be more cost-effective than transporting domestic oil across the country due to geographic proximity and transportation costs, and refined oil can be made cheaper into diesel and gas in other countries than imported.
True, but unplugged wells are an avoidable, human-caused problem that contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions, substantial risks to groundwater and air pollution, and far greater leak rates than natural seeps.
Yeah greenhouse effect I've been involved with things like this the greenhouse effect it's not what they claim it is it's just the same companies want Federal funding but the solar panels cause more damage than anything else cuz they leak oil constantly I live in Arizona for 20 years I worked out in Gila Bend when they first built that power plant with all the solar panels one question you live in Arizona will you give up your AC and your gas guzzling car will you ride a bike or a horse in the middle of the summer I drove and I rode my bike for exercise summer and winter in Arizona I would be more concerned of how much foreign interests that bought Farmland did use the water for free than an open well maybe you should go out to 75th Avenue and protest all the fuel tanks were your gasoline is held go out to Kyrene and protest the Steam Plant that runs by natural gas what are the 75th Avenue plant remember it gets hot in the summer
How about sue corporations that don’t properly seal wells? Raise fines and fees and stop allowing them to pay less than what it would cost to properly seal a well.
I hear these environmental alarmist are now ringing that Bell ding ding ding. Ding ding ding. Ding ding ding now these are the same type of people that will squawk about global warming global warming global warming the sky is falling the sky is falling these are the type of people that put the high cost of living in the state of California .
I hear a poorly educated individual that's probably gonna blame someone when the alarms stop and then claim that no one warned you of the problems you'd end up dealing with.
@RippieFarmer I take it you must be talking about me if you were talking about me why didn't you just come out with the word ignorant instead of being long-winded ??
@garyquail4996 I was responding to your long-winded comment about others that you didn't name... figured that was the format. I used poorly educated because ignorance is a choice, while how you are educated prior to college... isn't.
Gas vapor leaking from an oil well suggests the well is filling up again with oil. Best action is to anticipate more pumpable product. The Earth giveth, yes? Here’s to Jed!
Imagine squeezing all the water you can out of a sponge. After a while you cant squeeze any more usable fluid out. If you put the sponge down, it will still get the table wet. The wetness wicking onto the table is similar to the well leaking. Not enough to be useful, but enough to wreck the finish on the table top. Not a perfect analogy, but gets the basic idea across.
There are 3.5 million uncapped old oil wells in the USA. It worsened in the 1990s-2000s as many minor, independent companies quit business or failed to comply with regulations. Efforts are underway to address this issue, including a $4.7 billion allocation under the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law to plug orphaned wells. Some Texas oil firms estimate the repair to exceed $1 trillion. The majority of these wells are from companies no longer in business, so it is a taxpayer issue
Privatize oil company profits, socialize oil company losses. And oil companies don’t pay taxes either. Freeloading Exxon paid less than 2% last year while the average working American pays over 25%! And Trump is going to increase the tax burden on working Americans by giving billionaires and corporations more welfare and tax cuts.We can’t win! Liberals give our tax dollars away to illegal immigrants, Trump gives our tax dollars away to himself, Bezos and Musk!
Considering the money made and subsidies paid, this should be an oil company/industry expense. This needs to be included in their budget. If we had Congress critters and regulators that worked for us, plugging/mitigation/remediation expenses would rest on the industries shoulders. They also wouldn't be paying their CEOs so much, or posting record profits yeah after year. Having Wall Street and Big Business, oil, pharma, ag, etc, success be the definition of a good economy is a big part of the dysfunction of our country, why it's not working for ordinary people.
We should be drilling. Proving once again that oil is not a “fossil fuel” but is a renewable resource. It’s why abandoned oil wells that were thought to be tapped out are often found brimming after a few years. The term “fossil fuel” was invented to imply scarcity.
Jesse, extracting, refining and transporting oil is expensive and requires a lot of welfare giveaways from taxpayers..Let’s stop all taxpayer energy subsidies for oil, coal, wind, solar, nuclear, etc. Then let’s make sure the energy companies include the costs of air and water pollution, cleaning up abandoned wells and coal mines, etc. in their costs, and that the all pay fair taxes on their profits. Let’s make the free markets sort things out and not taxpayer welfare for things like cleaning up abandoned wells!
The term fossil fuel was coined to describe any resources high in carbon density i.e. coal and oil. Oil isn't replenished. It simply moves between pockets.
@@freeheeler09 I agree the whole reason a lot of wheels are abandoned right now is because the incentive for drilling has been taken away and replaced with welfare programs not the kindest single mom’s with the kind that companies get and those companies are even getting subsidies from the taxpayers not to drill which is crazy to me. Taxpayers are being forced to pay oil companies not to drill. It should all go back to a for-profit system for these companies and put it back on the free market so that way it’s sold at a reasonable price and that is how these companies will get their pay. Government needs to keep their hands out of free market. Also if I have a bunch of typos in here, I’m using voice text. I’m not as illiterate as voice text would have me look LMFAO.
Let's see. Gas is already taxed very high in California. California gets more money by allowing big oil to pay them to stall. Seems to be a please send money problem. The needed solution walks away.
Uhhh, the oil is natural. Also, you have more toxic chemicals in your closet and under your sink than those wells are releasing… Where do all the chemicals go at your house??? Hmmmmm
And if you keep covering the land with windmills and solar panels it's not going to be any different just remembered you used the gas vehicle to get where you're at to do this segment for a news media Outlet
Go, agree with you on the solar panel. We need to put solar panels in residential, school, box store and other roofs, and also over parking lots, irrigation canals, etc. before we cover another acre of farm or wildland with solar panels. Just having solar panels on your roof shades and cools your roof significantly enough to make them worthwhile in hot climates. And, prepper here. Aside from tools for self protection, trained guard dogs, an independent water supply, good relationships with neighbors, and a half year supply of food, we produce and store the energy we use for our home and vehicles with solar and batteries. Eff the corrupt gas and electric utility cartels. Like the prescription drug and insurance cartels, Exxon, PG&E, the TVA, etc. are more corrupt than the Mexican drug cartels.
I want to tell you a story about a man named Jed. A poor mountaineer but he kept his family fed.
Starting in 1960s state should have started charging well owners an annual license fee so that the state would have a funding mechanism to contract out to permanently plug idle or abandoned wells.
how about drilling for more oil.
The old wells cannot produce enough oil to pay for the electricity to run their pumps. The USA exports approximately 30% of crude oil from fracking, called light sweet crud. It is exported because the 132 refineries in the USA cannot afford to convert their infrastructure from sour crude oil. The United States imports about 52% of the crude oil it consumes, even though it produces a significant amount domestically. This reliance on imports is due to outdated refineries; crude oil can sometimes be more cost-effective than transporting domestic oil across the country due to geographic proximity and transportation costs, and refined oil can be made cheaper into diesel and gas in other countries than imported.
@@Carl_in_AZyou gave very good information thank you😊 very interesting 👍🏻
@@Carl_in_AZ OK then quote me if I’m wrong. This is only speculation here, but maybe California should still drill it and then at least sell it.
There is no democrat or republican. It’s the green dollar. So where are the people accountable?
Oil and gas are always seeping out of the ground even if you don't have a well
Good for you.
Natural seepage is a minimal fraction compared to what comes up thru an old well that wasn't properly capped, the amounts are not even comparable.
@@RippieFarmerdid she drive out there in her electric car I doubt it
True, but unplugged wells are an avoidable, human-caused problem that contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions, substantial risks to groundwater and air pollution, and far greater leak rates than natural seeps.
Yeah greenhouse effect I've been involved with things like this the greenhouse effect it's not what they claim it is it's just the same companies want Federal funding but the solar panels cause more damage than anything else cuz they leak oil constantly I live in Arizona for 20 years I worked out in Gila Bend when they first built that power plant with all the solar panels one question you live in Arizona will you give up your AC and your gas guzzling car will you ride a bike or a horse in the middle of the summer I drove and I rode my bike for exercise summer and winter in Arizona I would be more concerned of how much foreign interests that bought Farmland did use the water for free than an open well maybe you should go out to 75th Avenue and protest all the fuel tanks were your gasoline is held go out to Kyrene and protest the Steam Plant that runs by natural gas what are the 75th Avenue plant remember it gets hot in the summer
If the abandoned well is dangerous where is your safety equipment? Don’t breath or touch it, but it’s OK to use the oil.
Mining operations for minerals in year's past also left behind a tale of poisons in our rivers & groundwater supplies.
Exactly
So is oil a natural replenishing resource?
Recall Newsom.
Why? MAGA feelings hurt?
I hope Donald Trump locks up Gavin Newsom for getting in the way of deportations
How about sue corporations that don’t properly seal wells? Raise fines and fees and stop allowing them to pay less than what it would cost to properly seal a well.
I hear these environmental alarmist are now ringing that Bell ding ding ding. Ding ding ding. Ding ding ding now these are the same type of people that will squawk about global warming global warming global warming the sky is falling the sky is falling these are the type of people that put the high cost of living in the state of California .
I hear a poorly educated individual that's probably gonna blame someone when the alarms stop and then claim that no one warned you of the problems you'd end up dealing with.
@RippieFarmer I take it you must be talking about me if you were talking about me why didn't you just come out with the word ignorant instead of being long-winded ??
@garyquail4996 I was responding to your long-winded comment about others that you didn't name... figured that was the format.
I used poorly educated because ignorance is a choice, while how you are educated prior to college... isn't.
Gas vapor leaking from an oil well suggests the well is filling up again with oil. Best action is to anticipate more pumpable product. The Earth giveth, yes? Here’s to Jed!
Imagine squeezing all the water you can out of a sponge. After a while you cant squeeze any more usable fluid out. If you put the sponge down, it will still get the table wet. The wetness wicking onto the table is similar to the well leaking. Not enough to be useful, but enough to wreck the finish on the table top. Not a perfect analogy, but gets the basic idea across.
Big oil is absolutely disgusting
Lol zombie wells. Who paid for this segment
We are so stupid.
There are 3.5 million uncapped old oil wells in the USA. It worsened in the 1990s-2000s as many minor, independent companies quit business or failed to comply with regulations. Efforts are underway to address this issue, including a $4.7 billion allocation under the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law to plug orphaned wells. Some Texas oil firms estimate the repair to exceed $1 trillion. The majority of these wells are from companies no longer in business, so it is a taxpayer issue
Privatize oil company profits, socialize oil company losses. And oil companies don’t pay taxes either. Freeloading Exxon paid less than 2% last year while the average working American pays over 25%! And Trump is going to increase the tax burden on working Americans by giving billionaires and corporations more welfare and tax cuts.We can’t win! Liberals give our tax dollars away to illegal immigrants, Trump gives our tax dollars away to himself, Bezos and Musk!
Considering the money made and subsidies paid, this should be an oil company/industry expense. This needs to be included in their budget. If we had Congress critters and regulators that worked for us, plugging/mitigation/remediation expenses would rest on the industries shoulders. They also wouldn't be paying their CEOs so much, or posting record profits yeah after year.
Having Wall Street and Big Business, oil, pharma, ag, etc, success be the definition of a good economy is a big part of the dysfunction of our country, why it's not working for ordinary people.
But, but...how could Big Oil not be fine, upstanding, good corporate citizens?
Nice folks fun at a cocktail party or on your yacht. Don’t cross them and they’re fine clean meritorious admirable best among us folks.
We should be drilling. Proving once again that oil is not a “fossil fuel” but is a renewable resource. It’s why abandoned oil wells that were thought to be tapped out are often found brimming after a few years. The term “fossil fuel” was invented to imply scarcity.
Jesse, extracting, refining and transporting oil is expensive and requires a lot of welfare giveaways from taxpayers..Let’s stop all taxpayer energy subsidies for oil, coal, wind, solar, nuclear, etc. Then let’s make sure the energy companies include the costs of air and water pollution, cleaning up abandoned wells and coal mines, etc. in their costs, and that the all pay fair taxes on their profits. Let’s make the free markets sort things out and not taxpayer welfare for things like cleaning up abandoned wells!
@@freeheeler09great insight. Any perfect market that would be the best but there’s so much corruption.
The term fossil fuel was coined to describe any resources high in carbon density i.e. coal and oil. Oil isn't replenished. It simply moves between pockets.
@@freeheeler09 I agree the whole reason a lot of wheels are abandoned right now is because the incentive for drilling has been taken away and replaced with welfare programs not the kindest single mom’s with the kind that companies get and those companies are even getting subsidies from the taxpayers not to drill which is crazy to me. Taxpayers are being forced to pay oil companies not to drill. It should all go back to a for-profit system for these companies and put it back on the free market so that way it’s sold at a reasonable price and that is how these companies will get their pay. Government needs to keep their hands out of free market. Also if I have a bunch of typos in here, I’m using voice text. I’m not as illiterate as voice text would have me look LMFAO.
Oildale!
Legacy media is seen as silly now.
3 ring circus.
Quick...take it to autozone
But I thought California was leader in saving the planet from climate change!? 😂
Mmmmmmmmmm....oil comes from the ground..
❤
welcome to the legacy of John D. Rockefeller and J.R. EWING.
If the state hadn't shut them down, we wouldn't have this problem. Ought to update and restore the old wells and get them pumping again.
There is a reason why there is oil in side the planet.
Yes, the planet needs the oil in the geosphere so that the plates can move smoothly….there would be a lot less earthquakes 😊
Can't get a affordable permit to pump them anymore, so that makes them a ZOMBIE WELLS then??? ......
And our gooberment wants US to stop poluution😂😂😂😂
Simple answer make the company who owns the well come back and plug them up..they know who owns them
How can it cost 180000 to pour concrete down a pipe? Instead of spending money to monitor and regulate why not use that money to fix it?
Let's see. Gas is already taxed very high in California. California gets more money by allowing big oil to pay them to stall. Seems to be a please send money problem. The needed solution walks away.
Look..........It' s Olive Oil! Spewing gases and zombies!
Your lack of oil knowledge and safety is hilarious.
Personal responsibility and corporations.
You say oil wells is a threat well our cars don't run on unicorns an horse piss 🤔
Capture the methane and oil for use.. oh wait, newsome wants to charge fees for that too.
Lands cheaper if it's all contaminated
Just poor seawater down there.
Uhhh, the oil is natural. Also, you have more toxic chemicals in your closet and under your sink than those wells are releasing… Where do all the chemicals go at your house??? Hmmmmm
Wheres the EPA????
Ummm would be an issuer if they were still operational
I thought Democrats were all over this?? Gavin Newsom would never give this up 😂
Blame president trump 😵💫
Sure
No, communism 😂
Drones and Zombie wells ! ARGHHH Hahahaha !!!
I don't think anyone drills anymore in California. Too much bs
Yes we do
0:48 she farted
Aint it gteat? Smh.
It's starting to look a lot like Christmas ⛄
😂. Rich corporation greed ????? 😅.
Blame Rob Zombie.
And if you keep covering the land with windmills and solar panels it's not going to be any different just remembered you used the gas vehicle to get where you're at to do this segment for a news media Outlet
Go, agree with you on the solar panel. We need to put solar panels in residential, school, box store and other roofs, and also over parking lots, irrigation canals, etc. before we cover another acre of farm or wildland with solar panels. Just having solar panels on your roof shades and cools your roof significantly enough to make them worthwhile in hot climates. And, prepper here. Aside from tools for self protection, trained guard dogs, an independent water supply, good relationships with neighbors, and a half year supply of food, we produce and store the energy we use for our home and vehicles with solar and batteries. Eff the corrupt gas and electric utility cartels. Like the prescription drug and insurance cartels, Exxon, PG&E, the TVA, etc. are more corrupt than the Mexican drug cartels.
Look are ocean and garden coming from china
Fisher body plant turnsteads testing nee$ed again clean -up asile 9
Renewables.
Drill baby drill
It will cost 1/2 million dollars to cap-off each well. Who is going to pay for it ?????
They said $180,000. Probably won’t happen. Too bad for the people who have to live there. The rest of us can just stay away.
@@pcatful The TH-cam show I saw looked at 7 closed and seal oil wells. ALL 7 were leaking ! That show said 1/2 million, to do it right.
Trump could care less about the environment.
Maga!!!!
Turn them back on
Thank governor Gruesome!
Since its in California, yeah
California really does suck😢
Plug them the state should already have a plugging program in place if not plumb dumb!
Have you heard of the Labrea Tar Pits?