California Pro-environmentalist/Hybrid Car/Toyota PRIUS owners DO NOT be fooled by Proposition 10!!! (The California Ren

[zero]

Please DO NOT be fooled by the "The California Renewable Energy and Clean Alternative Fuel Act"


What is Proposition 10?
"The California Renewable Energy and Clean Alternative Fuel Act" – a deceptively named initiative - would authorize “$5 billion in bonds ($9.8 billion with interest), much of which would provide rebates to buyers of natural gas powered trucks along with some research and development funding. It doesn’t clean the air but it does line the pockets of the billionaire who paid for it.
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Prop 10: Exploding California’s Deficit, Cutting Education and Health
Prop 10 costs our state's General Fund $335 million per year for 30 years. California faces a $15 billion budget deficit disaster. Spending another $335 million a year to pay off Prop 10 bonds means more cuts to our schools, public health and public safety.
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Prop 10: Riddled with Loopholes – Defines Pollution Status Quo as “Clean”
Taxpayers will shell out $2.5 billion to subsidize trucking companies to purchase so-called “clean” vehicles that can pollute every bit as much as diesel and gasoline powered trucks. Every major environmental group says: Vote No on Prop 10.
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Prop 10: Pick-pocketing Californians – A $10 Billion Texas Boondoggle
Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens bankrolled Prop 10. He profits from giveaways that favor the trucks that will fill up at a Pickens owned natural gas station. Interstate trucking companies can collect California handouts of $50,000 per “clean” truck, and re-locate the trucks out of state. We pay - others get the benefit.

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Although commercial ads clearly depict Toyota Prius owners advocating this plan, and Pickens standing in front of Wind Turbines...

It won't help Hybrid car owners, nor help Wind Turbines. It will only help USA made commercial "natural gas powered" trucks.

[Black Landlord]

Whatever you do, be sure not to post actual details of the plan.

[Black Landlord]

http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Ca..._10_(2008)

OK, for what it's worth, this Chicagoan is against it.

[davester]

Ditto Prop 7. Both prop 7 and 10, labelled as environmental initiatives are sponsored by the "bad guys" and are anti-environment in oh so many ways. Vote NO on both.

I think that the naming of propositions should be taken away from the authors and given to bipartisan commissions (or perhaps elementary school students) to be selected based on the contents of the bills. That way we'd have no "Healthy Forests" (Bush pro-logging initiative) or "Clear Skies" (Imhofe pollutant standard weakening initiative).

[vision63]

If we can muster the energy to launch a proposition effort that would dictate that only non-paid volunteers can collect signatures, then many of our problems would be solved. No way 10 and 7 ever see the light of day.

[Seacrest]

I vote NO on every prop, every year.
Can somebody please float a ballot prop that outlaws ballot props?
THAT I'd vote for.

[AlphaDog]

Seacrest wrote:
I vote NO on every prop, every year.
Can somebody please float a ballot prop that outlaws ballot props?
THAT I'd vote for.

Let's float it with another one that outlaws campaign calls.

[freeradical]

Seacrest wrote:
I vote NO on every prop, every year.
Can somebody please float a ballot prop that outlaws ballot props?
THAT I'd vote for.

:agree:

[Silencio]

Seacrest wrote:
I vote NO on every prop, every year.
Can somebody please float a ballot prop that outlaws ballot props?
THAT I'd vote for.

Word. Why should we even bother having a legislature if we constantly have to do their job for them by voting on endless ballot initiatives?