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TV commercials touting a new clean energy strategy and an environmental ballot measure in California have one thing in common: If they succeed, they'll make investors – from "big oil" to the U.S. Capitol – a lot of money. Join us - Stop Prop 10!

Website: http://www.californiapropositions.org/prop10.html
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Latest Activity: Nov. 3, 2008

No on Proposition 10 - It’s About Greed, Not Green

"A corporation owned by a Texas oil tycoon spent three million dollars to put Proposition 10 on the ballot. That corporation will reap a bonanza if Prop 10 passes. California taxpayers will be stuck repaying its ten billion dollar cost."

San Jose Mercury News Editorial: "Prop 10 looks 'green' but it's the wrong shade"

"The billionaire oilman turned pitchman for alternative energy is the force behind Proposition 10, the initiative on the November ballot that calls for floating $5 billion in bonds to develop alternative energy. As it happens, he'd also profit from it."

Los Angeles Times: "T. Boone Pickens' 'clean' secret - Proposition 10 would put California taxpayers on the hook for his natural gas plan."

"Given that Pickens can also play rough -- he was a funder of the nasty "Swift boat" campaign in the 2004 presidential election -- it'll take guts to challenge him. California's governor, attorney general and treasurer should be the first to say no, because there's certainly a case against a $5-billion bond that results in almost no lasting infrastructure, could siphon taxpayer money out of state and would distort the clean-vehicle market. The makers of hybrid and biofuel vehicles, and California teachers, hospitals and firefighters, who would be on the losing end of Proposition 10, should also think hard about what Pickens' plan would do to them."

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Comment by Richard Holober on November 3, 2008 at 10:29am: Opponents of Prop 10 include: Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, Union of Concerned Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council, Environment California, California Taxpayers Association, California Labor Federation AFL-CIO, Governor Schwarzenegger, State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, and Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols. Why? It's squanders $10 billion to steer us away from promising alternative fuel technology, onto a fossil fuel natural gas bridge to nowhere.

40 daily newspapers wrote editorials against Prop 10. These opponents include Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury News, San Diego Union Tribune, Bakersfield Californian and Orange County Register.

Prop 10 redefines “clean” trucks to include trucks that spew identical amounts of pollution as the diesel trucks that are on the road today, yet these so called “clean” trucks qualify for $50,000 subsidies from California taxpayers. NOTHING in PROP 10 stops interstate trucking companies that register a "clean" truck in California for one day from moving the truck to another state after they collect the $50,000 handout. No on 10 - Don't cut our schools to make a Texas oil tycoon richer. Visit: www.stopprop10.org