New York Times: Secure in this states history and mythology, the venerable Midway-Sunset oil field near here keeps producing crude more than a century after Southern Californias oil boom. Many of its bobbing pump jacks are relatively short, a telltale sign of the shallowness of the wells and the ease of extracting their prize. But away from this forest of pump jacks on a flat, brown landscape, a road snakes up into nearby hills that are largely untouched save for a handful of exploratory wells pumping oil from...