Oct. 17, 2025 6 AM PT
To the editor: Given the existential scale of oil-industry-caused local weather change, Texas-based Sable Offshore Corp. shouldn’t be allowed to drill in waters off California’s coast (“How grand plans to restart oil drilling off Santa Barbara’s coast hit California’s green wall,” Oct. 13). The Golden State’s atmosphere and economic system shouldn’t be put in danger so as to enrich Lone Star State traders.
California has America’s largest ocean economic system, estimated at $44 billion. The biggest elements of this economic system are tourism, recreation and industrial and leisure fishing, with aquaculture and renewable vitality technology turning into more and more vital. Oil spills have induced California main issues for greater than 50 years and are a continuing menace to the environmental treasures of our coast.
Let’s ship Sable again to Houston with the message that California’s world-class economic system was not constructed on a gasoline that imperils the worldwide atmosphere. If Texans need to spend money on California’s marine economic system, they will put their cash into our state’s renewable vitality enterprises.
Tom Osborne, Laguna Seaside
