NRDC - "Texas: What Part of NO Don't You Understand?" - Re CA Proposition 23 - The Big Oil Prop

[TomCADem]

Here is nice article by the Natural Resources Defense Council attacking the Texas oil company sponsored initiative, Proposition 23:

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/anotthoff/texas_what_part_of_no_dont_you.html

The thermometer at the National Weather Service’s Los Angeles office hit 113 degrees on Monday – and then it broke.

This record-breaking heat conforms to a larger trend. A recent State of the Climate report, compiled by more than 300 scientists in 48 countries, concluded that “…global warming is undeniable.” The last 10 years have been the warmest on record. That decade beat the previous record holder: the 1990s.

The implications of this phenomenon have not gone unnoticed by the leading newspapers in the state and nation. Virtually all of California’s major papers have published editorials in the last month condemning Proposition 23, the oil industry-sponsored initiative slated for the November ballot that would kill AB 32, California’s landmark clean energy bill. The New York Times also weighed in with an editorial slamming the out-of-state financial supporters of Proposition 23.

Because AB 32 would create incentives for sustainable fuels and place reasonable limits on carbon emissions, it is being fought tooth and claw by Big Oil. Three companies in particular -- Tesoro Corp. and Valero Corp from Texas, and Wichita-based Koch Industries – have contributed millions of dollars to put Proposition 23 on the November ballot.

Along with the New York Times, the papers opposing Proposition 23 include The Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento Bee, the Fresno Bee, the San Jose Mercury News, the Contra Costa Times, the Ventura County Star, the Los Angeles Daily News and the San Luis Obispo Tribune.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I have seen no polling on this...

We need to defeat these bastards.

Recommended.

[the redcoat]

2. These companies

won't stop until they're dead.

Desperately sponsoring laws that outright contradict the well-being of humanity is just one more indication it's going to happen.

I pray the universe let's it happen in my lifetime.

[TexasObserver]

3. Good article with a stupid, inappropriate title.

Two oil companies headquartered in Texas and one from Kansas are spending money in California to influence a proposition. Oil companies, not Texas. When the state of Texas does something as policy for the state government, that's a fair use of "Texas" as the culprit. But this? That's just Texas bashing by someone who should know better.

The headline is inflammatory and unnecessary. She's not talking to Texas. She's talking to two companies from Texas. Would one say "hey Utah, knock it off" for the Mormons and their anti gay activities? Or "back off Italy" for the same activities by the Roman Catholic Church?

Decent article ruined by a dumb title.