What is making the most cash in California?

[Twinkle Toes]

Originally Posted by TimC2462

What kind of energy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQOrXHzqkg&feature=fvsr

[the city]

Originally Posted by TimC2462

What kind of energy.

California doesn't just produce one type. From nuclear, oil, wind, and solar. San Luis Obispo is right next to Diablo Canyon which hires many engineers and that's a nuke plant. Thus we have alot of educated people and what not.

[the city]

All though, if oil is generating so much cash then why is the San Joaquin so poverished? All the places with larger colleges and a large amount of college educated individuals are doing better than oil or farming bound cities.

[TimC2462]

Originally Posted by Twinkle Toes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQOrXHzqkg&feature=fvsr

I'm assuming you that you have ideas of alternative energy that can replace oil as an efficient energy to power the agricultural industry to sustain California's wealth?

[TimC2462]

Originally Posted by the city

California doesn't just produce one type. From nuclear, oil, wind, and solar. San Luis Obispo is right next to Diablo Canyon which hires many engineers and that's a nuke plant. Thus we have alot of educated people and what not.

But the discussion at hand was regarding big agricultural companies relying on type of energy for their daily operations. Are you suggesting that companies replace their current model business to surround alternative energy sources such as nuclear, wind, and solar?

[TimC2462]

Originally Posted by the city

All though, if oil is generating so much cash then why is the San Joaquin so poverished? All the places with larger colleges and a large amount of college educated individuals are doing better than oil or farming bound cities.

Is oil not generating so much revenue everywhere else in the world? Look at Chevron, Exxon Mobil, and British Petroleum -- they seem to be doing extremely well.

The poverty in the San Joaquin Valley has very little to do oil. In fact, the economy in Kern County can be helped when the demand for oil is higher, to an extent.

The income inequality has more to do with today's big corporations and their endless greed of extracting natural resources from the environment to increase their profit margin by finding ways to avoid paying their fair share of taxes, paying lesser wages to their employees, and shipping jobs elsewhere. Big companies like Chevron extract millions and millions of dollars worth in oil, while giving back to the community in the sum of $60,000 every few months -- all which are chump change.

The San Joaquin Valley is home to several big Ag companies that produce a significant amount of the nation's food supply, relying on the cheap labor of Hispanic workers who are lucky to earn anything more than minimum wage.

And the reason why big cities, especially those on the coast, are doing well because of the diversity of different industries such as retail, tourism, aeronautics, computing industry, etc -- all while most of the state funding has gone to the coastal cities and colleges moreso than those in the central valley. The gas you pay at the pump, and the bargain produce and food at Von's and at other grocery stores were delivered to you -- on the backs of those who are impoverished in the valley.

[BodegaHead]

Originally Posted by the city

Ha ha since I never was able to take an economic class in college, so I don't understand alot about California economics.

In general, I want to guess tourism and the colleges generate the most cash in California. It seems that California has the most colleges and most population, so we have more more college educated graduates here and people with more money. Sure I know people say farming is a big thing, but farming alone doesn't generate all the cash. The cities are where the concentration of wealth are.

The San Joaquin Valley has alot of agrarian cities and communities. Where as Southern and Northern California are more centered for businesses and trade and commuter communities.

Cannabis Oh wait that's farming,then I would say
the tech,computer & medical industries are generating lots of good jobs & big money making companies.

[humboldtrat]

Originally Posted by the city

Ha ha since I never was able to take an economic class in college, so I don't understand alot about California economics.

In general, I want to guess tourism and the colleges generate the most cash in California. It seems that California has the most colleges and most population, so we have more more college educated graduates here and people with more money. Sure I know people say farming is a big thing, but farming alone doesn't generate all the cash. The cities are where the concentration of wealth are.

The San Joaquin Valley has alot of agrarian cities and communities. Where as Southern and Northern California are more centered for businesses and trade and commuter communities.

Government - a real growth industry.