NYT profiles the Monterey Shale in Southern California, which purportedly has 4x as much oil as the Bakken: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/us/vast-oil-reserve-may-now-be-within-reach-and-battle-heats-up.html Of course, the NYT can’t escape from its thinly-veiled editorial view that fossil fuels are bad.