BY FROMA HARROP Seems a lifetime ago that the price of crude approached $150 a barrel, but it was only last summer. Remember how people went nuts? Santa Barbara County voted for oil drilling off California’s spectacular coast. Santa Barbara of all places, epicenter of the 1969 oil spill that ravaged beaches from Pismo to Oxnard – and launched the modern environmental movement. Much changed in these eight months. The oil price plunged to below […]
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