The NY Times ran this article before the oil companies were able to get enough signatures to put their anti-climate change proposition on the ballot. Well, with an army of paid signature gatherers, the oil companies were successful. Now, the oil companies are trying to get Californians to kill competition from alternative energy sources.
Of course, since this article appeared in March, the BP oil spill occurred. Yet, the corporate media is generally ignoring this bold effort by the oil companies to kill environmental protection laws.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/03/03/03climatewire-texas-refiners-mum-about-funding-push-to-hal-73127.html
The money behind a campaign to suspend California's landmark climate law and place the proposed delay before voters in November is coming from a pair of refiners based in San Antonio, Texas, according to several well-placed sources in Sacramento.
These sources said two refiners based in San Antonio -- Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp. -- are the sole funders so far behind a proposed ballot initiative that would bring a temporary halt to A.B. 32, which would cut greenhouse gases across California's economy to 1990 levels by 2020, starting in two years.
Reached in San Antonio, a spokesman for Valero did not deny the assertion, but he did refuse comment, referring further calls to a public relations firm in Sacramento that has been hired by advocates of A.B. 32 suspension. A spokeswoman for the PR firm, Goddard Claussen, also refused comment on the source of funding, but she did confirm that the firm has been retained to handle media and gather signatures to place the measure on the ballot.
Dan Logue, the Republican assemblyman behind the suspension, also refused to discuss where funds had originated. Like Valero, he referred questions to Goddard Claussen.
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