03/07/2008

Beverly Hills

Like the oil derrick at the high school, now obscured by a 175-foot tower decorated with colorful tiles, other production sites in the Beverly Hills field are hidden from view.
Several miles from Beverly Center, at the foot of a street of million-dollar homes, a six-story, windowless structure houses a Plains well.
Noise from the well site increased this year as oil prices rose, as it started humming 24 hours a day...
The only hint of production at Los Angeles's Rancho Park municipal golf courrse is noise coming from a row of shrubs along the fourth fairway.
The oil well here is out of the way, there are no homes nearby and they've made an effort to hide it, it doesn't smell, and from the green, you can't hear it.

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