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California's oil capital hopes for a renaissance under Trump
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00:00California's oil capital hopes for a renaissance under Trump Dear viewers,
00:08please like this news, share your comments and don't forget to subscribe to world news for daily
00:12global updates. Every five years, the fading U.S. town of Taft puts on a days-long Oldorado
00:17festival to celebrate its glory days at the center of California's black gold rush, thousands flock
00:22to its parade of cowboys on horseback, antique cars, and floats featuring oil pumps, a hat tip
00:26to the wild west of your this year, nine months into Donald Trump's second term, the tone has
00:30shifted from reminiscence to renaissance. Shrugging off climate change concerns, the U.S. president
00:37has embraced fossil fuels with a stated goal of unleashing American energy and removing impediments
00:43to domestic energy production. Some of Taft's 7,000 residents are anticipating a comeback for
00:47the petroleum industry in California, which has pledged to abandon oil drilling by 2045 to meet
00:52its climate goals. I'm 100% satisfied with President Trump, Buddy Binkley told AFP, a minority
00:58view in a heavily Democratic state. And as for the state of California, I think he's putting a nice
01:03pressure on them to hopefully turn around their prejudice against oil. The 64-year-old retired
01:08maintenance supervisor with oil company Chevron sported a red cap with the words, make oil great
01:12again, a play on Trump's MAGA motto and a slogan featured on several parade floats. The oil industry in
01:18California is suffering due to political reasons, Binkley said. But with Trump in power, I think it
01:23may go back the way it was. Great Hopes, located about 200 kilometers, 120 miles, north of Los Angeles,
01:30Taft was founded in 1910 atop California's most extensive oil field. Kern County, where Taft is
01:36located, contributes more than 70% of California's total oil production. Its rural landscape is dotted with
01:42thousands of oil pumps.A giant wooden oil derrick serves as a central landmark in Taft, which finances its
01:47schools, fire department, and police force with oil revenues.Festival goers can compete for the
01:51title of best welder, crane operator or backhoe loader, or be crowned the Olderado queen. Despite
01:56its pageantry and pride, the town is in decline. California oil production has been warning since
02:01the 1980s and has more recently been pinched by the push for cleaner forms of energy. Some of the
02:08town's residents have moved to Texas, where drilling is less regulated. Many in Taft are delighted
02:13that Trump has pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord and removed obstacles to drilling on
02:19federal lands while handling out billions in tax breaks for the oil industry.
02:24I have great hopes, said Dave Norwich. Kraft Mayor, we have all the raw materials. We had
02:31the wrong direction. Now we have leadership that is going to unleash the possibilities.
02:36Stuck in the past. Trump's administration has slashed federal funding for renewable energy
02:41and climate change, and he wants to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its power
02:46to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Like the president, Nair is a skeptic of quota-unquote
02:53climate change. We need to question the narrative, and we need to update those things with the
02:59existing science, he said. Yet California is increasingly vulnerable to the extreme weather produced by climate
03:07emissions. Earlier this year, 31 people in the Los Angeles area died in fires, spread by hurricane-force
03:12gusts of 160 km per hour. If everyone around the world behaved like the U.S., the world would
03:19be on 4 degrees centigrade of global warming by 2100, said Pasha Maldipfi, a political scientist
03:28specializing in environmental policy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Agriculture remains
03:33the top employer in Kern County, and would be dramatically affected by increased incidence
03:39of drought and unprecedented heat waves that are already hitting the region, he added.
03:47That oris Taylor pictured a 31-year-old dog groomer in half-proof threats about air pollution in
03:52the area. If I were to have a child, I would not want to raise them in Kern County, she said.
03:59I would like to go somewhere cleaner. She believes that we need to get away from fossil fuels,
04:04but in fact, she acknowledged we are stuck in the past a little bit, you know, like very unwilling
04:11students.
04:12Thanks.
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