Money and Fear: The Politics of PG&E

by Randy Shaw via Beyond Chron

Mon, Aug 11, 2008 7:48AM

8/11/2008: The lines have been drawn in the battle over California’s energy future – solar and clean energy, or just more of the same? It’s not difficult to tell who wants the status quo. Just look at who is funding the opposition to the Solar and Clean Energy Act (Proposition 7), the November ballot proposition that would quadruple the state’s output of solar and clean energy by 2025.

All of the funding to oppose this far-sighted but practical measure comes from large energy companies in California. PG&E is the biggest culprit, joined by Southern California Edison and Sempra. To date, they have invested over $24 million to defeat Proposition 7. This does not count the millions they have spent shoring up the support of California’s major environmental groups, grassroots citizens groups, and even the Democratic and Republican parties. Judging by the money trail, they are pulling the strings in a concerted effort to kill not only the Solar and Clean Energy Act, aka Proposition 7, but San Francisco’s Clean Energy Act as well.

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by waa

Mon, Aug 11, 2008 12:43PM

No, Prop 7 would not produce any increase in anything. It MANDATES that utilities have more "alternative" energy, but produces nothing itself.

What happens if the technology is not there to produce this mandate?

We all know the drill. Eco groups will go to court and a judge will order the utilities to produce that which they do not have and cannot produce. The solution will be to shut down non-"alternative" energy until the required percentage is reached.

I've lived in the Third World. I don't want it here.

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