Here is something I find funny....
The Ojai River in Ventura, it runs through a canyon where some of the first oil wells were drilled in Kalifornia.
Back around the late 1800's and early 1900's the oil used to seep up out of the ground and on hot days it would actually flow into the river. From the river it would flow into the ocean.
The local Chumash Native Americans used to use the tar that would seep up to seal their canoes, in fact they had some of the best open ocean going canoes on the west coast.
Now after what, 100 years of oil pumping from the area there is still a little bit of oil that leaks out or seeps from the ground.
Only now the EPA and Kalifornicommication fine the oil companies that are drilling or had active wells on the land for pollution.
WTF!!
Soemthing that has happened in nature for probably thousands of years is not the fault of someone who pumped the stuff out of the ground within the last 100 years?
It is OK for the City of Santa Monica and LA County to pump millions of gallons of "treated" shitwater a quarter mile off of the coast of Santa Monica and Malibu yet I can't operate my PWC withing 100 yards of the beach and I can't launch from the beach because of the pollution it causes?
As far as Puddingstone goes, well, that little lake has always been a shithole from the time I used to go there.
Guess what used to be around that area before LA grew up around it?
Can you say FARMS and LIVESTOCK?
Guess what used to drain into the lake when it rained?
And it has been proven that PWC's and boating contribute less direct pollution to the water than a parking lot full of cars that are dripping oil, trannie fluid, and anti-freeze onto the ground that OH BY THE WAY makes it into the lake during the infreaquent LA rain storms!
How about all of the dog and cat shit that people chuck over their retaining walls into the LA river and the rest of the concrete creeks, streams, and rivers in the LA basin?
When that first big storm of the season hit the San Gaberials and the LA basin all of thsoe concrete channels become nothing more than one big huge shit river!!
It's not about "pollution prevention", it's about the ending of personal freedoms!!