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Send an email to your Los Angeles County Supervisors and the Department of Regional Planning supporting a policy to phase out oil drilling now.
Frequently Asked Questions
If the oil fields are shut down, what will go in their place?
Determining what will happen with these oil fields will be a process, and STAND-LA strongly believes that it is a decision that should be made with robust input from local residents and that it should meet community needs, whether that’s affordable housing, green space or something else. No matter what, the decision should not be made behind closed doors by any government officials, oil companies or real estate developers whose actions have harmed communities for far too long.
How will people who work in the oil industry be affected? Will they lose their jobs?
No community should have to choose between jobs OR clean air. We deserve both and know we can have both. While under the county's new policy to phase out oil extraction, a small number of people will lose their jobs several years from now, we believe the phase-out process should address their needs. That's why members of our coalition joined a Task Force launched by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to develop a concrete plan for these workers to find stable, safe jobs with the same or better pay once these oil fields shut down permanently.
Only those working in oil extraction will be affected by this policy. Workers at L.A.’s oil refineries, gas stations and other parts of the industry will not be impacted. Given that the oil industry is in decline, however, proactively developing a plan for these workers is the responsible thing to do. Workers in the coal industry, who lost the jobs when the demand for coal went down and had no transition plan in place, learned this the hard way.
Will gas prices go up if we phase out oil here in Los Angeles?
The biggest oil companies like Chevron and Exxon are making huge profits right now keeping our gas prices high based on billions of barrels of oil they control around the world. Shutting down nearby oil fields years in the future won’t affect gas prices now or in the future, both because the vast majority of the oil for gasoline comes from overseas and because our county, state and country are already moving toward other kinds of fossil-free, renewable fuels.
Determining what will happen with these oil fields will be a process, and STAND-LA strongly believes that it is a decision that should be made with robust input from local residents and that it should meet community needs, whether that’s affordable housing, green space or something else. No matter what, the decision should not be made behind closed doors by any government officials, oil companies or real estate developers whose actions have harmed communities for far too long.
How will people who work in the oil industry be affected? Will they lose their jobs?
No community should have to choose between jobs OR clean air. We deserve both and know we can have both. While under the county's new policy to phase out oil extraction, a small number of people will lose their jobs several years from now, we believe the phase-out process should address their needs. That's why members of our coalition joined a Task Force launched by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to develop a concrete plan for these workers to find stable, safe jobs with the same or better pay once these oil fields shut down permanently.
Only those working in oil extraction will be affected by this policy. Workers at L.A.’s oil refineries, gas stations and other parts of the industry will not be impacted. Given that the oil industry is in decline, however, proactively developing a plan for these workers is the responsible thing to do. Workers in the coal industry, who lost the jobs when the demand for coal went down and had no transition plan in place, learned this the hard way.
Will gas prices go up if we phase out oil here in Los Angeles?
The biggest oil companies like Chevron and Exxon are making huge profits right now keeping our gas prices high based on billions of barrels of oil they control around the world. Shutting down nearby oil fields years in the future won’t affect gas prices now or in the future, both because the vast majority of the oil for gasoline comes from overseas and because our county, state and country are already moving toward other kinds of fossil-free, renewable fuels.