{"id":214869,"date":"2026-03-19T01:12:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=214869"},"modified":"2026-03-19T01:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:12:35","slug":"an-oil-refinery-defined-life-in-this-quaint-california-city-what-happens-when-its-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=214869","title":{"rendered":"An oil refinery defined life in this quaint California city. What happens when it\u2019s gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the Valero refinery shaped Benicia\u2019s economy, politics and health. Now the city has become a reluctant test case of whether an oil town can reinvent itselfLess than 40 miles north of San Francisco, the city of Benicia has the quaint ambience of an American small town&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/feb\/26\/benicia-california-oil-refinery\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the Valero refinery shaped Benicia\u2019s economy, politics and health. Now the city has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214869-an-oil-refinery-defined-life-in-this-quaint-california-city-what-happens-when-its-gone.jpg",140,112,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214869-an-oil-refinery-defined-life-in-this-quaint-california-city-what-happens-when-its-gone.jpg",140,112,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214869-an-oil-refinery-defined-life-in-this-quaint-california-city-what-happens-when-its-gone.jpg",140,112,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214869-an-oil-refinery-defined-life-in-this-quaint-california-city-what-happens-when-its-gone.jpg",140,112,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214869-an-oil-refinery-defined-life-in-this-quaint-california-city-what-happens-when-its-gone.jpg",140,112,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214869-an-oil-refinery-defined-life-in-this-quaint-california-city-what-happens-when-its-gone.jpg",140,112,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214869-an-oil-refinery-defined-life-in-this-quaint-california-city-what-happens-when-its-gone.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214869-an-oil-refinery-defined-life-in-this-quaint-california-city-what-happens-when-its-gone.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214869-an-oil-refinery-defined-life-in-this-quaint-california-city-what-happens-when-its-gone.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214869-an-oil-refinery-defined-life-in-this-quaint-california-city-what-happens-when-its-gone.jpg",140,112,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/214870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}