ROBERT PRICE: Can you imagine Bakersfield without oil? EPA does  The Bakersfield CalifornianSACRAMENTO — The end of oil. Fighting words for a lot of folks. The end of Kern County's lifeblood. The end of Kern County's historical identity, of its . …

SOUND OFF: Kern oil industry under siege; forgive us for covering it  The Bakersfield CalifornianReader: No news organization more so than our hometown paper has glorified this issue (of state lawmakers' attention to the large, uncontrolled surfa …

ROBERT PRICE: Is the end of Kern oil production really upon us? Sure sounds like it  The Bakersfield CalifornianOur days as a capital of crude oil production are numbered — California is seeing to that. Kern County hasn't reached the end of the r …