Clark smiled and said, "Boss, a gun store alone is not enough. We need to find a gun store with a shooting range. I happen to know several gun stores that have shooting ranges. If you'd like, I can take you there to have some fun."
After the conversation, several people continued to drive on the road, but this time Yang Jing's car was not driven by Lin Dan. Clark took over the steering wheel from Lin Dan and drove for Yang Jing and Lin Dan himself.
At around four o'clock in the afternoon, their group of three cars arrived in downtown Los Angeles.
In fact, Los Angeles is located in the Los Angeles Basin, which is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces the sea on one side. Except for some hills, the ground is flat, with an average altitude of only 84 meters and the highest point, Mount Elsie, 1,548 meters high.
But in this wide basin, there are extremely rich oil resources. Even now, this huge basin is known as "half city and half oil field", which is enough to illustrate the rich oil resources in the Los Angeles Basin.
In fact, California has long been famous for its abundant oil seeps on the surface - this refers to the outcropping of oil in the earth's crust on the ground, which is one of the important signs for finding oil mines - and the local Indian natives have been using this to do business.
In the 1850s, some people conducted special research on the oil seeps in the Los Angeles Basin, but they never connected the abundant oil seeps on the surface with the huge oil reserves underground. It was not until more than 20 years later that the first commercial oil well in the Los Angeles Basin was drilled in Pico in the north of the Los Angeles Basin, and the basis for the layout of the well was the oil seeps exposed on the surface.
The successful drilling of this oil well has established a golden rule for the exploration and drilling of commercial oil wells in the Los Angeles Basin: never drill until oil is seen!
In fact, this golden rule did play a huge role in the early exploration process. The first large oil field in the Los Angeles Basin, the famous Los Angeles City Oil Field, was discovered in 1892 in accordance with this golden rule.
In 1890, Los Angeles had a total population of only 50,000 people, but the discovery of this oil field attracted a large number of oil workers to this small city, which played an immeasurable role in promoting the subsequent development of Los Angeles.
Just like San Francisco was built because of gold mines, Los Angeles actually prospered because of oil.
With the discovery of the Los Angeles oil field, more capital quickly shifted from the East Coast to the West Coast, and economic giants represented by the Rockefeller family made enough money from California oil.
From the discovery of the Los Angeles City Oil Field to 1895, the daily output of the 300 oil wells in the field increased to 792,000 barrels, which attracted a large amount of capital to Los Angeles.
With the help of huge funds, people discovered the Midway Sunset oil field with reserves of 250 million tons in 1894, and the Kern River oil field with reserves of 85 million tons in 1899.
The discovery of these oil fields further stimulated the influx of capital and accelerated the development of Los Angeles.
In the first two decades of the 20th century, huge amounts of money and manpower turned the entire Los Angeles Basin into a steel jungle with oil derricks. The La Aveño oil field with a reserve of 170 million tons, the Montebello oil field with a reserve of 120 million tons, the Huntington Beach oil field with a reserve of 150 million tons, the Elk Hills oil field with a reserve of 180 million tons...
The now famous Long Beach in Los Angeles was actually an oil field a hundred years ago, because that is where people discovered the famous Signal Hill Oil Field!
Yang Jing had seen a black-and-white photo of what Long Beach in Los Angeles looked like in 1937. If Yang Jing hadn't seen the black-and-white photo with his own eyes, he really couldn't believe what the picturesque Long Beach looked like eighty years ago.
Have you ever seen bean sprouts? Yes, Long Beach in 1937 looked like bean sprouts in that black and white photo. However, what grew on the ground were not bean sprouts, but steel oil derricks that were densely packed like bean sprouts.
It's not just Long Beach, the same is true for Venice. Densely packed steel oil derricks like a forest extend from the beach all the way inland. There is no trace of the beautiful scenery that would have existed eighty years ago.
It can be said that in that era, the entire Los Angeles coastline, from Venice in the north to Huntington Beach in the south, was almost entirely occupied by these densely packed oil derricks!
This is Los Angeles eighty years ago! A city completely occupied by steel oil derricks!
In fact, even now, in Los Angeles, from the city to the beach, and even on the four islands in the San Pedro Bay, you can see praying mantis pumps and some old oil derricks everywhere, and of course, there are more disguised oil derricks.
What is even more surprising is that even after more than 80 years of mining, these old oil wells are still continuously producing black oil.
It can be said that the old oil wells near Los Angeles have great potential. This is true for any oil businessman.
Yang Jing thought so before.
But there is always a gap between facts and ideas. When Yang Jing arrived in Los Angeles and inspected it for a few days, he felt that his previous ideas seemed to be a bit taken for granted.
There is no other reason. Although there are many old oil wells in the urban area of Los Angeles, and even many of them have been sealed for a long time, it is still very difficult to reopen those old oil wells for exploitation here.
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