- “Santa Barbara's economy relies on coastal activities. It's coastal fishermen, tourism, hospitality… that depend on a clean and accessible waterfront. That right there is the heart of the county's economics, not oil and gas." My thoughts for Center Square: www.thecentersquare.com/california/a...
- But offshore wind farms are ok?
- Wind turbines don’t leak methane, they don’t flare, and whatever toxins result from material corrosion pale in comparison to water toxins from offshore oil rigs (not to mention spills).
- I never thought of this before:
- Magnitude matters here. * Wind turbines at most carry 300 gallons of oils as a lubricant. * By comparison, the 2015 Refugio oil spill was 100,000 gallons. * The BP Deepwater Horizon spill was 134,000,000 gallons.Jan 22, 2026 23:58
- Your argument is logical, but green energy is supposed to be green & not do much harm at all, but compared to oil & gas, not so bad. A weak argument for something that's green. Then there's always the mystery of dying whales around offshore wind. (can't be proven, but still happening)
- 🤔🤔🤔 300 gallon leakage for one 15MW wind turbine that would power 20,000 homes is truly “not much harm at all.” The average car in a driveway leaks ~0.25 gallons of oil per year. So the amount of “harm” from a turbine is 1/16th that of just a car sitting in the driveway of the home it’s powering.
