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TomCADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-10 10:37 PM
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USA Today - "California's pollution law challenged by oil interests" - Our Post Citizen United World
It is just amazing that out of state oil interests would spend over $8 million to repeal a law designed to promote alternative energy sources. The irony is that pro-National Security conservatives oppose such laws, which are designed to limit our dependence on hostile oil producers.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/09/california-emissions-law-challenged/1


Out-of-state oil companies are funding a ballot initiative to suspend California's pioneering law to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Oil billionaires David and Charles Koch (no relation to this reporter), who have helped finance the Tea Party movement, contributed $1 million earlier this month to Proposition 23. With that donation, and others by Texas-based Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp., the initiative's proponents have raised $8.2 million -- 97% from oil interests that are mostly out of state, reports the Associated Press.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-10 10:41 PM
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1. Evil is as evil does.
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Luminous Animal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-10 10:49 PM
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2. And we the people do not have the funds to adequately fight back these attacks.
Fortunately, lately these corporate funded fuck the citizenry initiatives are losing more than winning but their existence still forces environmentalists and other activists to waste precious funds and manpower fighting them.

We really need to reform our proposition system.
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-10 10:57 PM
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3. keeps people running around trying to put out fires
it's harder to make progress when you're fighting people who have endless money.
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