Regarding your editorial "A bizarre investigation," OGJ, July 19, 2004, p. 15, it is most ironic that in the prodigious producing area of Bakersfield, Calif. (more than three times as much daily production as the whole State of Oklahoma or about 40% of the daily production of the entire State of Texas) with the closing of the Shell Bakersfield refinery we will have to import all of our area gasoline.
We also have a mothballed Pacific Gas & Electric Co. power plant that could supply the entire City of Bakersfield. It is prevented from being restarted, so we have to import all of our electric power as well.
F. Lynn Blystone
President and CEO
Tri-Valley Corp.
Bakersfield, Calif.
