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California’s Oil Country Hopes Carbon Management Will Provide Jobs. It May Be Disappointed

Inside Climate News · By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Joshua Yeager · last updated
The first carbon storage facility will only produce a handful of permanent positions.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Joshua Yeager

On a recent Tuesday evening, several oil workers in Kern County, California, spoke out in support of a project that they hope will create much-needed jobs.

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While electric-powered vehicles may be the ride of the future, oil remains at least for now the dominant fuel for transportation around the world. And after a period of time at the end of the 20th century when oil was subject to wide fluctuations in price, new supplies in North America as a result of non-conventional recovery techniques have helped stabilize prices.

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