Politically bi

Keeping in mind that the City of Richmond, CA has a Green mayor, and has generally been on an anti-Chevron tear the past few years, I do believe this qualifies as going "both ways":

The Richmond City Council is asking Chevron to appeal the Contra Costa Superior Court injunction that stopped construction at its refinery earlier this month.

Chevron filed an appeal in state court to try to reverse a court ruling that deemed inadequate the environmental impact report for its project to upgrade equipment and refine a wider range of crude. However, the refinery did not seek a stay of the injunction that halted construction because it needs project and operational certainty to move forward, spokesman Brent Tippen said.

Council members passed a resolution Tuesday night supporting an immediate settlement among the city, Chevron and environmentalists so 1,100 laid-off workers can return to the refinery.

This is the same Richmond whose city council tried to extort Chevron into helping them close a $21 million budget gap, and usually stands in the way of pretty much anything else Chevron has either done or attempted to do. I personally think that Chevron's "going slow" to remind Richmond who's the boss.

Because just like you can't squeeze blood from a turnip, you can't pump oil (and oil revenue) out of a refinery that isn't refining.