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Fracking shifts U.S. oil production away from California

by Daniel Ackerman

Sep 4, 2024

Once a leading source of oil, California produced fewer barrels of oil in June than in any month since the federal government began counting in 1981.

$As fracking in places like the Permian Basin in Texas took off, California started pumping fewer and fewer barrels of oil.$

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