{"id":23945,"date":"2017-02-16T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23945"},"modified":"2017-02-16T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T08:00:12","slug":"california-oil-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-oil-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Oil Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/univholl.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I moved to Huntington Beach, Calif. every house in the tract had an olive tree in the front. If you were fortunate enough to purchase your home (rather than rent) the fine print on the contract said the buyer\u00a0has\u00a0no mineral rights. Jackpumps along the Southern California coast\u00a0work\u00a024\/7, the oil\u00a0runs under our land, and we still\u00a0pay the highest prices in the nation\u00a0for gas.<\/p>\n<p>New interest in California&#8217;s other oil could create another boom &#8212; for olive oil producers.\u00a0While everyone in our neighborhood had their olive trees removed\u00a0in\u00a0favor of something less\u00a0attractive to birds, bad weather in Europe has created a shortage of olive oil in top-producing countries. They&#8217;re eyeing\u00a0California, which\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/california-olives.html\">provides\u00a099% of commercial\u00a0olive oil<\/a> in the U.S. With some of the most stringent standards, California olive oil is an attractive product that locals often prefer. You can get up to speed on olive oil by visiting a farm, taking a factory tour or attending an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-olive-festivals.html\">olive festival this year<\/a>\u00a0such as Oroville&#8217;s\u00a0upcoming Ripe Olive Day on Feb. 21, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I moved to Huntington Beach, Calif. every house in the tract had an olive tree in the front. If you were fortunate enough to purchase your home (rather than rent) the fine print on the contract said the buyer\u00a0has\u00a0no mineral rights. Jackpumps along the Southern California coast\u00a0work\u00a024\/7, the oil\u00a0runs under our land, and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23945"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}