About Prop 10
Consumer Federation of California: No on Prop 10 – Stop T. Boone’s Pickpocket Initiative
Prop 10 is the worst kind of corporate raid on the public coffers. We simply cannot afford to cut our schools, our health services and our public safety programs further to enrich a Texas billionaire. Vote No on Prop 10.
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Union of Concerned Scientists: NO on Proposition 10 - Costs Too Much. Does Too Little.
Because of its flaws and weaknesses, Proposition 10, the California Renewable Energy and Clean Alternative Fuel Bond Proposition, is an inefficient use of public bond funding at a time when the state is facing a multi-billion dollar budget crisis.
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Vote No on Proposition 10: Greg Vlasek, Former Executive Director of the California Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition
Proposition 10 saddles California taxpayers with $10 billion and 30 years of new state debt while unfairly disadvantaging the most promising emerging vehicle and fuel technologies, and it does so with no guarantee of environmental benefits to us or our children.
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Post Carbon Institute: Vote NO On Prop 10
On November 4th 2008, voters will be asked to back this disgraceful farrago of rebates for fake clean vehicles cooked up by T Boone Pickens and his gas-producing friends. So think of ‘Chinatown’, ‘The Third Man’ and ‘The Sting’ all rolled into one. Here’s how the story unfolds:
If Prop 10 - misleadingly called ‘The California Renewable Energy and Clean Alternative Fuel Act’ - passes, California taxpayers (of which I am one) get to shell out five billion dollars spent over a 10 year period to help Pickens and friends get America further hooked on a fast depleting non-renewable natural resource - natural gas, while brilliantly further dooming America’s long distance freight transport system to early collapse and obsolescence and doing almost nothing to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other pollutants.
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CFC No on 10 Fact Sheet - It isn’t green, it’s greed
A fossil fuel corporation owned by Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens 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 subsidizing big trucking companies at a cost of $335 million per year. California faces a $15 billion budget deficit crisis. Prop 10’s raid on the state’s coffers will mean cuts to our schools, our public safety and health programs.
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No On Prop 10 Official Ballot Argument
“What do you call it when one company puts a measure on the ballot to put taxpayer dollars in their own pockets?
Special interest legislation. Corporate Welfare. Ripping off the taxpayers. That’s the truth about Proposition 10.”
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Consumer Watchdog Letter to Legislative Analysts Office
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Propositions 7 and 10 Offer Californians No Real Alternatives: Sierra Club California Opposes Both
Prop. 10’s promise of more clean alternative vehicles sounds good on its surface. However, the initiative would accomplish little to facilitate real, sound alternative energy or technologies, and its reliance on long-term borrowing for short-term benefits and potentially obsolete technology would put us on the wrong road.
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Prop 10 Fund Allocation Sheet
Learn how every single dollar in Prop 10 is meant to be spent.
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Official Text of Prop 10 Initiative
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Who’s Behind Prop 10? Who’s T. Boone Pickens?
“Is T. Boone Pickens Selling Off Some Wind Turbines?”, David Sassoon, Huffington Post
Proposition 10 goes by the nickname “Big Wind.” It’s not because with Proposition 10, Pickens is both passing gas and breaking wind, and when you see what’s going on, you want to hold your nose. This man wraps himself in green goodness and the American flag, and he’s got folksy charm. He had us all laughing repeatedly with his round-about way with making a point, and half the audience gave him a standing ovation when he was done.
Not me. I couldn’t help thinking about the rumor that he’s shopping his turbines — which despite lacking another source has revealed a larger truth: how we have our work cut out for us in this country to establish a clean energy economy far away from the business-as-usual world of the fossil energy present and wildcatters like T. Boone Pickens.
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“Why T. Boone Pickens’ ‘Clean Energy’ Plan Is a Ponzi Scheme”, Scott Thill, Alternet
Pickens is currently the head of BP Capital Management, a secretive hedge fund (aren’t they all?) that has extensive connections to the magnate’s hated “foreign oil” interests. The most glaring example from its investment portfolio is Halliburton, which was once run by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, is currently headquartered not in America but Dubai, and whose main business segments and subsidiaries involve oil exploration, construction, production and refining. And that’s not mentioning its resume on rampant fraud and corruption, especially in Iraq but also elsewhere, which has so far cost American taxpayers billions.
But Halliburton isn’t the only BP Cap holding that stinks. Pickens is also heavily invested in Schlumberger, the world’s largest oil services corporation; nuclear and conventional energy powerhouse Shaw Group; the embattled ex-Halliburton subsidiary Kellog Brown and Root and so on. For a very rich man who decries the influence foreign oil has on American life, Pickens sure hasn’t put his money where his mouth is. He’s put his money where the oil is.
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T. Boone Pickens Loves You and Wants to Use Your Debit Card, Post with all kinds of sourced information
But the biggest reason to stay away from Pickens is that, in reality he is only secondarily interested in wind power. What Pickens really wants to do in Texas is sell a public resource, water, to the public, with public help.
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