Irvine, CA – “California does not need Texas oil companies coming in and changing our laws,” said Sharon Toji, a local Irvine resident, who works in the local field office at the University Town Center. “This proposition will harm California’s leadership role in clean air and energy, so we want to make sure voters know the facts before they vote on November 2nd.” Sharon will be attending the demonstration against Prop 23 organized by local groups. The demonstration is on Sunday, October 17th, from 1 PM to 5 PM at the Tesoro-owned USA Gas Station at the intersection of Campus Drive and California Drive, adjacent to UC Irvine campus.
“The event will be focused on raising awareness about the problems with Proposition 23. When people learn about it, they realize it is a bad idea for California,” said Nicole Nelson, a Santa Ana resident and Nursing student. If passed, Proposition 23 would repeal Assembly Bill 32, California’s air pollution reduction law, until unemployment drops to 5.5 percent or below for four consecutive quarters. Added Nelson, “[Proposition 23] preys on people’s anxieties about the economy. The truth of the bill is that it sets an unrealistic employment goal and would be a major setback for California’s green jobs and investments in renewable energy.”
Orange County residents hope to make it clear on Sunday who is funding Proposition 23. “Tesoro and Valero have poured millions into campaign spending on the proposition. If you look at who is funding the Proposition, you will see that the benefits will be going to Texas oil companies – not Californians!” said Alex Gorman, a Laguna Hills resident and team leader with Team Courage OC, a local progressive activist group. Gorman continued, “That’s why we’ve decided to stage the demonstration in front of a Tesoro-owned USA gas station. We want to make it clear that Californians control our environmental laws – not big oil companies.”
The event will be a peaceful demonstration. Signs and printed information will be provided for anyone who wants to participate. A reception will be held afterwards at the local field office in University Center. People who are interested in learning more about the event or participating can visit the event page at http://tinyurl.com/Prop23Protest-OC or contact Tiffany Dekle, the event organizer, at tdekle@gmail.com. Dekle says, “This is an organic response from the local community. We encourage people to stand with us and show Big Oil that California’s environment belongs to the people and not Texas oil companies.”
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With the greatest Respect Tiffany, you’re missing the point.
Voting YES on Prop 23 does NOT change the Clean Air Act nor does it alter AB 32.
However, AB 32 was enacted before the facts were known. It simply needs to strip out Cap and Trade and the reliance on flawed GHG assumptions and its potentially a piece of leadership legislation we can be proud of. Sustainability, Clean Energy, and Stewardship are great goals but not at the expense of Common Sense.
AB 32 needs to be amended to eliminate the Cap and Trade provision 70% of America Opposes, eliminate the reliance on flawed GHG (Green House Gas) assumptions, eliminate the unnecessary Fees, corrected to tighten the scope so it doesn’t introduce Environmental Red Tape that will do more damage than good, and make non-governmental agencies like CARB accountable to taxpayers.
AB 32 needs to be amended and Voting YES on Prop 23 makes the most sense to give legislators time to correct the legislation.
excerpt from the approved 2008 California
Climate Change Scoping Plan
Key elements of California’s recommendations for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 include:
• Expanding and strengthening existing energy efficiency programs as well as building and appliance standards;
• Achieving a statewide renewables energy mix of 33 percent;
• Developing a California cap-and-trade program that links with other Western Climate Initiative partner programs to create a regional market system;
• Establishing targets for transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions for regions throughout California, and pursuing policies and incentives to achieve those targets;
• Adopting and implementing measures pursuant to existing State laws and policies, including California’s clean car standards, goods movement measures, and the Low Carbon Fuel Standard;
• Creating targeted fees, including a public goods charge on water use, fees on high global warming potential gases, and a fee to fund the administrative costs of the State’s long term commitment to AB 32 implementation.
@NewportMac: Prop 23 has *already* spooked investors out of the CA job market- The NY Times reported a 61% LOSS of INVESTMENT in the green JOB SECTOR after Prop 23 got on the ballot – and that is just the beginning..
(Read: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/green-tech-investment-plummets/)
With AB 32 effectively suspended indefinitely thanks to Prop 23.. and the taxpayer made responsible for the oil spills and other environmental damage corporations cause with Prop 26 (because a “levy or fee”‘s definition has been expanded to the size of an Oil Spill’s clean up efforts :P) .. Prop 23 and 26 together will kill our leading CA Alternative Energy JOB SECTOR, and make corporations UNACCOUNTABLE for the damage they cause our state!
Oil won’t last forever, so our bankrupt state needs all the investment it can get- that 61% drop in green-job investment may be in Texas’ interest, but it is certainly not in ours!
****VOTE NO on 23 & 26!! Save GREEN JOBS and keep oil companies ACCOUNTABLE for the spills they cause- NOT THE TAXPAYER :D****
I really Orange County residents aren’t duped into demonstrating before they understand the AB 32 issues and its impact on jobs, business, and an unnecessary $3,800 increase in everyones household expenses.
Related to my comment about flawed GHG (Green House Gas) assumptions.
Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara Resigns from The American Physical Society on October 6th.
source: http://thegwpf.org/ipcc-news/1670-hal-lewis-my-resignation-from-the-american-physical-society.html
The reason:
“It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.”
Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, former Chairman; Former member Defense Science Board, chmn of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Served in US Navy in WW II; books: Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin (about decision making).
The Green Energy is a fraud!
If you would have proper education you would know from the Physics that no mater what you do, you need energy to create energy and that the energy eventually dissipates into a heat and that the energy never disappear only changes its form.
A unit for energy is the calorie and depends on its form such unit has a different name. For example: unit of the electric energy would be a Watt, kinetic energy would be Joule etc. etc. etc. You can convert one type of energy into the other and loses will always escape into the environment and will convert back into the basic energy on the earth.
Everything will return to its normality without any specific effort. The nature is design that way.
Only stupid socialists, liberals and progressives educated in dumb down schooling system believe that the energy can somehow get out of balance and destroy the earth.
It is same retardation thinking like believing that the earth is flat and if you reach its rim you will fall down into the nowhere.
Folks, relax and vote Yes on prop 23 it has nothing to do with dirty Texans and everything to do with dirty morons mongoloids.
Do not believe socialists the are liars!
If you are concern about the environment be concern about the Chemtrails:
http://orangejuice.ocsatire.com/images/Polls.jpg
You can see them in OC sky when spraying is going on look up.
More: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2010/10/11
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=chemtrails&aq=2&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=Chem&gs_rfai=CWHW-pwK0TOX5KIauMpqmtLIHAAAAqgQFT9AN_b4
That will kill you and your children!!!!!
Fiala,
Those are just moisture vapor from the wings of planes. They aren’t toxic.
Pedroza, you are confusing regular jet vapors with the intentional spraying.
Regular jet tail looks like a comet and will disappear within about 5 minutes after the airplane. Watch it sometime!
Chem-Trails = Chemical Trails stays for about 12 hours and will change into the clouds. Also look zigzag patterns. Commercial plains do not fly like that. They must follow a specific vectors like highways. Trust me the pilot. This is happening in federally controlled airspace where I as a private pilot would not be allowed to fly.
If you take time you will see same air plain making turns and flying back and fort. There are usually two plains flying against each other. If you want to see the whole picture you must watch for about 6 hours to see the change from a line into the loud.
How many people will do that?
They spray early in the morning. I will alert you when they will be visible here in the OC. During the winter there is a coastal layer until about 11:00 AM which prevents you to see them clearly.
Keep head up and study it. The 99% of people have no clue about its existence and will accept your explanation as a fact. Yesterday was nice program on it on the coasttocoastam.com see link above.
I am aware about it for about 15 years. Usually I do not talk about that because people are stupid and it is difficult to maintain an intelligent discussion on the subject. Same as prop 23.
There is no question among the scientists that it is intentional spraying. The question is however, why. Some believe in government conspiracy and others a prevention against the earth warming and ozone hole cover up in upper atmosphere.
Recent data point to a population control because of high content of the aluminum bromide in these Chem-Trails.
As always if you want to know the truth you must study it……. be concern.
http://www.hemp4fuel.com
I’m on the fence on 23, but I think we need to eventually move away from oil and towards a cleaner burning fuel source that does minimal harm to the environment.
Move away from oil, get rid of your car. stop cooking with gas. Stop using electric power made with coal, gas, etc.
Live in animal skin teepees, (paint on your house causes global warming too)
I bet even clothes cause ………
WOW Guys — focus!
This isn’t about weird theory, the Science is settled — Climate Science (whatever you want to call it) isn’t known and we should NOT enact taxation schemes like AB32 that will kill California business until it something more than Fact.
The idea a group would be duped to protest over something they haven’t read and something they don’t understand is Tragic.
I get it, 60’s Babies like to protest but We used to be smarter than this?
° US EPA acknowledges that US action alone will not impact the world CO2 levels;
° US EPA (11 July 2010) said that bills in Congress will not reduce the total use of gas and oil of 20 million gallons per day for decades.
° LAO (CA Legislative Analyst Office) stated: CA economy at large will be adversely affected by implementation of climate-related policies that are not in place elsewhere. (Letter to Dan Logue, 13 May 2010)
° Even CARB’s own economic experts have recognized the fact that jobs will be lost because of AB 32. In fact, they recommend establishing a “Worker Transition Program” to provide assistance to people who lose their jobs because of AB 32 regulations.
° AB 32 does nothing for local pollution, nor does Proposition 23 do anything to increase local pollution.
When the loudest objections to any candidacy or initiative are focused on vilifying its financial backers, this often indicates that its opponents’ arguments on its merits are weak.
Vote yes on Prop 23 and suspend AB32.
The enforcement of AB 32 will cause an economic disaster for California that will keep other states from passing such legislation, and probably do more harm for the cause than it will help the environment.
Points to ponder on AB 32 / Prop 23:
° AB 32 is not a pollution law, it is a global warming law, but it won’t have any effect on global warming.
° Prop 23, in spite of fear-mongering by opponents, does not repeal any clean-air laws. It does not increase local pollution.
° CARB over-estimated diesel emmisions by 340%. What else have they over-estimated?
° Key CARB personnel caught lying about credentials and then failing to reveal this after it is discovered internally before AB 32 passed, until after AB 32 passed. What else are they lying about and with-holding?
° Sacramento State University reports estimated cost of $3734 per year per family due strictly to AB 32.
° CARB has admitted that California alone cannot have an impact on reducing global warming and CO2 emissions.
Green jobs are like UFO’s…Everyone’s talking about them and nothing really materializes!
If the stupid and I mean Stupid liberal whack job pass this gobal bullshit law the only thing that will be left here is the poor and the underserved gang ridden communities and rich white liberals lining the beach front!
It is almost impossible to maintain a business in this liberal infested state with ridiculous regulations, taxes and insurance. I am seeing more and more people leave this state for states like Texas!
California is the perfect example of NEVER voting for anything that involves the corrupt union or global warming freaks!
“I get it, 60′s Babies like to protest but We used to be smarter than this?”
MQ says:
They love abortion so much; if only we could have aborted them!
Could you imagine! No disgusting idiots like Nanny Pelosi, Harry weed and Bunny frank . No hippie brats like Maddow!
If only!!!!
I highly recommend reading this article before making your decision on Prop 23.
President Vaclav Klaus: Climate Control or Freedom?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/20/president-vaclav-havel-climate-control-or-freedom/