Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/09/2010 12:46:30 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Valero Energy Corp. dropped another $3 million into the Proposition 23 campaign, according to campaign finance filings reported Friday to the Secretary of State.
The Texas-based oil company has contributed more than $4 million to the initiative, which would suspend California's landmark greenhouse gas emissions reduction law until the state unemployment rate drops to 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters. Tesoro Corp., another oil company based in Texas, has also contributed more than $500,000 to the campaign.
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Texas-based contributions to stop the madness.. wow.
Thanks, Texas!
Sanity in Texas. Something CA needs to import.
Well, as a Texan I quite enjoy watching California choke on their own environmental laws. If California is unwilling to produce sufficient energy for themselves and are the largest importer of electricity, then they can cry all they like when the rolling black outs come their way. F'em.
The rest of your tripe notwithstanding, it’s not just about electricity, which illustrates the ignorance in your post.
Valero, a Texas based company, has a large stake in the outcome of this bill. They have a lot of gas stations here and a couple of refineries as well. This bill (AB32) that Prop 23 would suspend would hit them hard. Wonder what that would do to Valero’s bottom line there in TX?
Should I “enjoy watching” Texas “choke” along with CA as Valero sheds jobs in CA and TX as a result of this?
This bill is a result of collsion between the gov’s mansion and the rat legislators.
From wiki:
On June 26, 2006, the California Senate Environmental Quality Committee approved AB32 with a vote of 4-2. The bill, authored by Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez (D-Los Angeles) and Assembly Member Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills), was agreed between Schwarzenegger and Democratic legislators on August 30, 2006. On September 27, the Governor signed it into law.
The economic effect of AB32 remains controversial. In March 2010, almost four years after its passage, the California Air Resources Board (”CARB”) issued a report claiming that the law would create about 10,000 new jobs for California in the next ten years. A parallel study, performed by consulting firm Charles River Associates for CARB pursuant to a 2008 state law and released at the same time using the same raw data, claimed that the program would cost between $28 and $97 billion dollars over the same decade and would cause a decline in California household income in the range of 0.6% to 1.0% per capita.
Oh, btw, to Valero, thanks for your support in helping to push back against the rats, it’s appreciated.
Moron! My post wasn't in regards to Valero. It was in regards to California's environmental laws and the fact that California is the largest importer of electricity. Yes, I like watching them choke on their environmental laws that keep them from producing their own energy and causing them to beg others states for electricity. Got it!
Since you appear incapable of commenting on full crux of the issue, I’ll let you wallow in your self aggrandizing superiority complex. That much I did get.
You're the jackass who jumped into my comment and started yelling about me being ignorant. I was addressing one thing and you were addressing something else. Bugger off!
Moron! My post wasn't in regards to Valero. It was in regards to California's environmental laws and the fact that California is the largest importer of electricity.That would make you the moron, moron!
It's not like there are no power plants here. We happen to be the most populace state (that means we have more consumers too...moron!). Private industry and others built power plants for the express purpose of selling electricity to who ever wants to buy it...If it happens to be California why is that any of your business? I'll bet those exporters to California love our environmental laws, probably even support them.
I have an idea. Why don't YOU build a power plant then refuse to sell your electricity to California.
I’ve taken to buying from Valero whenever I can. The 0bamachine has targeted their refineries in part of their war on capital, and on red states.
“the most populace state”
populous
Met another fellow like you on FR once.
Felt that his comments were off limits in a public forum.
I’m not going to address the hyperbole in your posts suffice to say, that your initial post was based on a position of ignorance. You don’t appear to have all the facts on your side. Either through willful ignorance or...
If you don’t know the difference between;
a) yelling or not
and
b) ignorance vs. stupidity
that’s not my problem.
I guess all Texans aren’t as easy going as they claim nor do they all appear capable of enduring a little dishing back of the dish they’re attempting to serve to others.
Good day.
LOL!!! You fools in California put a cap on electricity prices and bankrupted PG&E and nearly bankrupted Southern California Edison. Not to mention "no nukes" that has kept you all from building nuclear power plants. Yes, California is the largest importer of electricity due to their dumbass environmental policies. You want power? Build plants and drill for your own damn oil & gas. Sheeze... how hard is that to figure out!
YOU are the one who jumped my ass out of nowhere. Quit acting like a victim. I just as soon you had not stuck your nose into my post.
With a post such as this, I would endeavor to understand why I should have sat idly by and let you post such garbage without refuting it?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2567452/posts?page=4#4
You have issues. Go away.
Doesn’t Valero have something to do with Venzuelan psycho Hugo Chavez?
Yeah I have issues, I have issues with folks like you who fail to realize that many CA FReepers are tired of the liberties many such as yourself feel free to take in denigrating otherwise good people.
To be perfectly honest, if you had left that off your post, I would have just done as you wish. Instead, you fired the first shot. Deal with it.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_hugo_chavez_own_valero
I don’t think so.
http://www.valero.com/OurBusiness/Pages/CompanyHistory.aspx
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