{"id":537926,"date":"2010-04-21T19:12:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T23:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8569"},"modified":"2010-04-21T19:12:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T23:12:59","slug":"texas-oil-companies-double-spending-to-make-california-voters-kill-their-climate-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/537926","title":{"rendered":"Texas Oil Companies Double Spending to Make California Voters Kill Their Climate Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/Oil_Companies_California_Jobs_Initiative.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8570\" title=\"Oil_Companies_California_Jobs_Initiative\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/Oil_Companies_California_Jobs_Initiative.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"441\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis November, Texas oil companies hope to dupe California voters into  repealing their own clean energy bill; AB32. The oil companies&#8217; ballot measure had $966,000 in funding up through the end of  March. Now they have doubled that, bringing the total to $1.9 million &#8211; supposedly to save California jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Among the most recent  additions, one mysterious conservative front group from Missouri &#8211; with only $30,000 in funding &#8211; somehow mustered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=ys6c6q38eypqjo\" >$498,000<\/a> to save California from itself. But an in-state oil company, LA-based <a href=\"http:\/\/rootswire.org\/content\/former-occidental-petroleum-exec-slams-companys-attack-ab-32\" >Occidental Petroleum  openly added its own $300,000 on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of the end of March, 89% of the funding has  come from the oil industry, with nearly three quarters of that just  from Texas oil companies. The petition gathering is being handled through <a href=\"http:\/\/placerteaparty.org\/ab32.html\" >The Tea Party<\/a>, another (perhaps unwitting) front group for the fossil energy industry, as a subsidiary of Freedomworks, the Dick Army <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamattersaction.org\/factcheck\/200908060005\" >(mostly energy) lobbying<\/a> group.<\/p>\n<p>It is sure to increase voter turnout this November.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/21\/texas-oil-companies-double-spending-to-make-california-voters-kill-their-climate-bill\/#more-8569\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=hBEWepQRa9M:Lm_fGzlDWx0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=hBEWepQRa9M:Lm_fGzlDWx0:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=hBEWepQRa9M:Lm_fGzlDWx0:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=hBEWepQRa9M:Lm_fGzlDWx0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=hBEWepQRa9M:Lm_fGzlDWx0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=hBEWepQRa9M:Lm_fGzlDWx0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=hBEWepQRa9M:Lm_fGzlDWx0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=hBEWepQRa9M:Lm_fGzlDWx0:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/cleantechnica\/com\/~4\/hBEWepQRa9M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This November, Texas oil companies hope to dupe California voters into repealing their own clean energy bill; AB32. The oil companies&#8217; ballot measure had $966,000 in funding up through the end of March. Now they have doubled that, bringing the total to $1.9 million &#8211; supposedly to save California jobs. Among the most recent additions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}