Taft, a small oil town two hours northwest of Los Angeles, sits in Kern County, which, in 2016, went to Donald Trump in a big way. With its 9,400 or so people, it feels a world away from the impeachment drama in the nation’s capital.
Noerr said he half-jokingly told Pickens: “The only problem is we’re surrounded by the state of California.”cultivated not just a skeptical attitude toward the state and federal governments but a complicated connection to the land — and what comes out of it. While he runs a crane and trucking company that supports the oil and gas industries, he said he worries about how best to protect the environment as intensely as any climate change crusader.
Like the mesmerizing rise and fall of the thousands of steel “horse heads” that drive pump rods deep into the earth, Taft’s fortunes move in sync with the global oil markets, as well as political and economic trends closer to home. Gazing out over oil pumps dotting the Midway-Sunset oil field south of town, which is run by the energy company Aera, operations manager Jeff Joseph, 55,
“This industry has been the American dream for me,” he said, with the steady work allowing him to raise a family. As the game ended in a loss, teens celebrated Sadie Hawkins Day by lining up to dance in the dark to a deejay on the school’s nearby baseball diamond.
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