ENERGY

Santa Barbara County Opposes Chevron Plan: The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors said Chevron should not be allowed to use tankers to transport millions of barrels of crude oil from offshore platforms at Port Arguello to refineries in Los Angeles while a 170-mile pipeline is being built. The board adopted this position and sent a letter to the California Coastal Commission to raise the issue at the commission’s meeting today in Marin County. The plan for interim tankers was proposed last week by the Resources Agency of California as a solution to the decade-long dispute over transporting oil from the Point Arguello oil platforms to Los Angeles-area refineries.