California Needs Oil. Let It Flow

Few Californians welcome higher gas prices.

So they should cheer the news that Sable Offshore Corp. has resumed oil sales through the Santa Ynez Pipeline System in Santa Barbara County.

Sable announced Sunday that it had begun selling oil through the network –– idle since 2015 –– on recent national-security orders from the Trump administration.

Now, the firm is piping more than 50,000 barrels a day –– or roughly 66,000 full tanks of gas –– from storage in Las Flores Canyon to Pentland Station for sales and distribution.

Good.

More domestic oil supply restrains rising gas prices –– and curbs the cost of nearly any good or service transported to stores or consumers.