1) New park data has been released by the Trust for Public Land and there are some interesting facts.
Total park-related funds per resident by city, and I calculated how much per acre:
#1 San Francisco with 3,466 acres of parks for 744,041 residents spends a total of $199,640,885 or $268 per resident and $57,599 per acre.
#2 Seattle with 6,050 acres of parks for 582,454 residents spends a total of $140,966,899 or $242 per resident and $23,300 per acre.
#6 Sacramento with 4,236 acres of parks for 453,781 residents spends a total of $ 75,714,680 or $167 per resident and $17,874 per acre.
#13 Portland with 10,685 acres of parks for 537,081 residents spends a total of $72,311,172 or $135 per resident and $6,767 per acre.
2) A new power plant has applied to build in Kern County, as reported by the Sacramento Bee, which burns most of its pollution and injects some into oil fields, helping the drilling of oil…sounds like a pretty good technology.
3) Dan Walters opines on the sentiment for drilling off California in the wake of $4 a gallon gas and its becoming quite a bit more positive.
