What’s to get excited about?

After critically observing an outpouring of protests last week over the Inglewood Oil Field, former City Councilman Steve Rose wonders why the thunderstorm of rumbling now.

“I question the urgent concerns that are being expressed and the money ($1 million) being spent,” he said.

Why now? “It is politically correct,” he said.

The Council is set to vote in mid-September on a brace of new regulations for Culver City’s less than 10 percent of the oil field.

Much ado about not much?

Mr. Rose sought to make his case about overreaction.

“There have been drastic energy changes over the last 200 years,” he said. “Science and technology will advance energy another quantum step in the next 25 years

“Energy companies – known as ‘the evil oil companies’ – are moving to other forms of energy generation.”

Although fracking appears to have been established as a safe oil extraction method, Mr. Rose said that “the soil conditions in the Inglewood Oil Field are not ideal for fracking because of the way the geology is.

“The reason, I believe, is because there are not horizontal layers of soil. The soil is on an angle, so the ability to frack a layer is much tougher.”

As the retiring CEO/president of the Chamber of Commerce and a modest consumer of energy, Mr. Rose found one final zetz irresistible.

“This is being said by someone who owns a hybrid car and is very happy with it,” he said. “I have been to the gas station six times in the last three years.”