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 Actually, you've touched upon a controversial aspect of proposed climate change regs - who gets charged for all the emissions. There is a school of thought that producers of the fuel should be charged from "cradle to grave", e.g., an oil company would be charged with all emissions associated with exploring for oil, drilling and producing the oil, transporting it to refineries, refining it, transporting the fuel, and then even the combustion by its customers. As for LA, you don't see a lot of heavy, fuel intensive industry there anymore.  The utilities all burn gas or import their electricity from elsewhere. The refineries are still there, but oil production has declined. Heavy oil production, such as what goes on here in the valley, is extremely carbon intensive. They have to generate steam to inject into the ground to move the oil to the surface. Steam generation is accomplished by burning natural gas on site. Most folks don't realize it. Drive out to...
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