even as we see dollars being siphoned from the pockets of our people and deposited in could havers overseas, en-- coughers overseas, enriching foreigners, some of those foreigners who hate us, while our hard-earned dollars are being extracted from us, massive deposits of domestic oil and gas worth trillions of dollars are untouched, untapped and unused. even as california sinks into an economic catastrophe, off the coast are huge calve earns filled with massive he -- calve -- caverns filled with massive deposits of oil and gas. even as california cuts and cancels public services to our people, billions of dollars of tax revenue could be derivinged by utilizing that oil and gas that's just sitting there right off our shore. yet the state of california lets it sit there while our people suffer and the state goes broke. trillions of dollars have been sent overseas for energy while at home no new oil refineries, no hydroelectric dams, no nuclear power plants. as i say, all of this seems a bit bizarre. and it may be a bit bizarre, but it is not meaningless nonsense. those who have insisted upon