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Europe Celebrates Green Week 2003
Published on: June 6, 2003
Published on: June 6, 2003
URL: http://ens-news.com/ens/jun2003/2003-06-05-03.asp
PROP 26 is just as damaging as PROP 23. Prop 26 is a treacherous, Big Oil rip-off, which “passes the buck” from oil corporation, clean-up fees to the public’s taxes, who will pay for the oil recycling fees, the materials hazards fees and other fees. If you do not understand the ambiguities and the intrigues behind Prop 26, then, vote no. Power to the people. BP, Shell and Exxon Mobil are silent partners in Prop 26.
Oil companies care about 2 things only 1) profits, and 2) staying in business. They don’t care that most of the oil money goes to OPEC. The biggest threat is they are very crafty sales people. They use small snippets like “1 million jobs” and other small points that lock into people’s minds. For many people, that’s all their minds see on an issue, so they fall for it, and blindly support destructive policies. Let’s face it. If the oil companies support it, there is only 1 possible conclusion A) more revenue to oil companies, B) more costs for consumers. Use some common sense people. You’re buying their product and increasing their profits if you fall for this. The future jobs are clean energy. How many “jobs” in oil production exist in CA? Very few. Where are the “future jobs”? Obviously, future innovation, like clean energy. Good lord, do California people want cleaner air?
The troubling paradox of these sales jobs is the Prop 23 backers will actually DESTROY JOBS, they are claiming to “save”. There will not be future jobs unless there is innovation. If California expects to prosper, innovative areas are the only way to “create” new things to sell, and jobs to make it happen. It’s the same argument decade after decade. They must keep polluting more to “keep jobs”. The jobs they create will be in the medical industry feeding off the sickness their pollution creates.
The other jobs they create might be a necessity of defense. The billions we send to OPEC each month just sucks the life out of us from the addiction to petroleum. The terrorists OPEC supports drain our resources in many other ways, and threaten the very lives of American men and women. The people who need to hear this message do not read this forum. We must find channels to send these messages where it reaches the masses who fall for the passive simple messages like “politicians” “tax” “higher prices” “saves jobs”. It’s a clever sales job. The people crafting these messages would sell out everybody else to make another buck, and they’re already filthy rich.
We are at a dangerous crossroads in this country where those that would create new futures, versus those who pretty much control everything dark today, have become dependent upon those who really don’t seem to care. Maybe this is “the way it’s suppose to be”, but if Prop 23 and/or 26 pass in CA, it would be a major victory for those dark forces who control States like mine here in Louisiana. One can only wonder if the Gulf oil spill happened in Carmel, Big Sur or Morrow Bay, if CA would feel differently about what is happening right now, where our State and Federal Governments both content those 185,000,000 gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf simply disappeared! There is nothing to fear from eating Gulf seafood? Eco Tourism, who needs it? Solar energy, who would buy 25-years of energy today, when all he needs is enough for tomorrow anyway? All we know for sure is that BP and the big oil companies are willing to spend $100’s of millions on PR campaigns, and almost nothing to revive a dead economy after they killed it. Please don’t let this happen in California clean/green tech industries too.