Oil Industry Targets Schwarzenegger

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Oil Industry Targets Schwarzenegger

By ADAM NAGOURNEY
September 14, 2010, 2:34 pm

LOS ANGELES – The oil industry is going after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the California Republican.

The issue is Mr. Schwarzenegger’s strong opposition to a proposition on the ballot this November that would suspend a landmark greenhouse gas bill passed by the Legislature in 2006 mandating that carbon emissions be rolled back to 1990 levels by 2020. The oil industry has invested millions of dollars in getting the initiative on the ballot and has made clear it was ready to spend millions more to get it passed, arguing that the bill would cost the state jobs and raise energy prices.

“We’ve raised about $6 million so far, but unfortunately in California’s expensive media market this is not enough to win the fight against environmental zealots led by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who seems hell-bent on becoming the real-life Terminator of our industry,” Charles T. Drevna, the president of the National Petrochemical Refiners Association, said in a fund-raising e-mail that went out this morning.

http://businessjournalism.org/2010/10/01/nobel-prize-winning-economist-joseph-stiglitz-calls-for-second-federal-stimulus/


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Note the National Petroleum Refiners Assoc.'s view of those concerned with Global Warming --

describing them as "environmental zealots" and "environmental fanatics."

And note the power of money here in deciding this question which has to do with the health

of everyone on the planet and the planet itself!



(Thought it a good idea to have this latter part of the story on the record here ...

For those who didn't catch the original Scharzenegger comments --

Prop 23: Schwarzenegger Blasts Big Oil For 'Self-Serving Greed'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/27/prop-23-schwarzenegger-bl_n_740979.html)

[hunter]

1. Always wait until after dinner to tell your hosts they suck.

Thanks for dinner you oily Republican slimeballs. Hollywood beckons.