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Trump Administration Wants You to Buy Local

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The most recent Trump administration oil and gas drilling plan includes sites in and around Walnut Creek and Pescadero.

If you want to see oil and gas exploration in Butano State Park and Mount Diablo State Park, the final lease plan just released by the Bureau of Land Management may be up your alley.

Given market forces and California's stringent regulations, drilling at those sites is a long shot. But over the past two months the Trump administration has proposed opening up nearly 2 million acres in California to oil and gas exploration.

Which got me thinking in an only slightly tongue-in-cheek way: We use plenty of oil and gas in the Bay Area. Wouldn't it be more environmentally friendly to source it closer to home?

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