Commentary I spent almost all my 34 years in California in Huntington Beach, the scene of the recent hideous oil spill. I left three years ago only because it became too expensive. I still visit twice a week, including since the oil disaster, because it’s a great place and most of my friends are there. The beach now largely is deserted but for the cleanup workers. If you drive around the city, evidence of its past and present as a center of oil production is everywhere. About 15 oil wells still pump Texas tea. If you look carefully, you can see the pumps, going up and down, tucked behind homes and businesses. Restaurants display pictures of the tall derricks from decades ago. Offshore, you can see the oil platforms, lately intermixed with anchored cargo ships that can’t get ashore to unload. The downtown high school football team is the Oilers. …