Chevron-Funded Schwarzenegger Sells Out The Environment
Chevron-Funded Schwarzenegger Sells Out The Environment
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) repeatedly touts the environment as his top priority — he even changed his official campaign color to green.
Yet Schwarzenegger recently announced his opposition to the Clean Alternative Energy Initiative, a landmark ballot measure that would finance alternative energy research and development by imposing a tax on oil companies. (The initiative is backed by dozens of California green groups, and would boost the state’s economy according to UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.)
The governor’s opposition might have something to do with the nearly $2 million in campaign contributions from oil companies he’s received since 2002. Chevron gave a total of $600,000 to his campaign and paid for his trip to the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City. Chevron also reportedly enjoyed “considerable influence” over the content of the Governor’s major reform proposals in 2004, which included significant benefits for the oil industry.
And which oil company is the #1 donor to the group opposing the clean energy initiative? Chevron, which has given a whopping $3,740,000, more than three times the amount of the next 14 donors combined.
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June 28th, 2006 at 6:24 pmI live in California, and I’m voting for the initiative. My best is that it passes.
June 28th, 2006 at 6:27 pmHey, Ahnuld. If I move to Kalefornya, can I borrow one of your six Humvees?
June 28th, 2006 at 6:28 pmI hope that when he loses his election he says, “I’ll be back!” and then goes back to the movies.
June 28th, 2006 at 6:33 pmWe’ll be hearing his heartfelt concession speach in November. He won’t be missed by Californians, especially after he squandered $50 million on his special election last year (voted down in its entirety). He’s a joke and an embarassment to California.
June 28th, 2006 at 6:38 pmBy NOT imposing a tax on oil companies gifts were imposed upon AreNulled.
June 28th, 2006 at 6:43 pmMan, I’m so sick of special interest groups, and the lying sacks of crap, who take their money
June 28th, 2006 at 6:49 pmcutting up my card now.
June 28th, 2006 at 7:13 pmdidn’t chevron protest against paying their property taxes of $800,000? i wonder how much it costs to protect their property and their employees’ property and for emergency services and for homeland security at the richmond refinery. their campaign contribution would go a long way in a city like richmond…oh, yeah, poor people can’t ask oil refineries to be a good neighbor. they are too busy working…
Arnold has always been a meathead, so nothing surprising about him being a Chevron stooge too!
June 28th, 2006 at 8:00 pmYou lot aren’t following the news of the VOTE-FRAUD very closely. The system is rigged for November, and Lucky Arnie is going to have a last minute impossible win, just you wait and see.
But it’s GREAT to watch people pretend that the game is still being played on their board. The news is that the game is the oldest one in the book, and it is being played in back counting rooms all over the country.
Total Arnold has raised by 6/1/06: $90,421,748.39
NINETY MILLION DOLLARS, which his campaign got just for STEALING the election in 2003.
It’s quite a bargain.
The major blogs CAVED IN YET AGAIN to the ‘AP-thinking’ that closed out the primaries in California without spending even a moment wondering if the elections were free and fair.
THEY WERE NOT. ‘Sleepovers’ of election equipment is taking place all over the state, and elections are being ‘counted’ in backrooms WITHOUT the legally-required witness rights our CA constitution promises. Talk to the hand…of the Sherriff. No rights here.
Those sleepovers are entirely illegal. They invalidate the election. But why stop there? Stacks of ballots were made available to the Rapepublican party and only the chance appearance of an official at the warehouse kept them from being loaded with false votes. Oh, and every study we’ve been able to run shows that the machines only count something like 70% of the ballots — they NEVER match the number of ballots inputed, nevermind the actual votes therein.
Did you know that it is ILLEGAL to use paper ballots in recounts in Florida? The same sort of law is on its way from the CA SecState, who is complicit with Diebold and the rest. Did you know that a recent position paper from the SecState was a Word document that revealed that the source of the ‘findings’ was actually written up by Diebold’s lobbyists?
Let’s just KEEP PRETENDING that the opinion polls and the public opinion are not moot in these fixed races. Let’s just keep pretending that the people who are watching the RNC attack our democracy on every front are just going to roll up their TRILLION dollar campaign, and go home, because we don’t like them.
No one knows who won the primary we just had. That includes the Busby race. NO ONE, that is, except the vote-fraud companies, the crooked local election officials, and the crooked SecState.
June 28th, 2006 at 9:29 pmOops, ‘watching’ should be ‘helping.’ Pretend that the people helping the RNC are just going to go home because we don’t like them.’
June 28th, 2006 at 9:33 pmOil companies are doing all they can to produce and refine as much product as they can. Why on earth would you tax THEM for alternatives? They are already working on alternatives to every extent they are commercially viable. Why not tax the consumers such that consumption is reduced to a reasonable point? I’m thinking $6-8 gasoline would be ideal and the extra taxes could go for alternatives development.
June 29th, 2006 at 9:06 amfunny, didnt bush give all those tax breaks to oil companies so they could fund alternative energy research?
June 29th, 2006 at 9:25 amif that were true, then why is Chevron funding an anti Clean Alternative Energy Initiative group?
June 29th, 2006 at 9:27 amUghgh how come every time a republican that is especially hated by certain segments of the liberal population,wins an election, they start carryong on with some big conspiracy theory about how the elction was stolen when instead they should be thinking of how to raise some cash for the next election. Also, they could stop smelling their own farts and realize that perhapsd the public isn’t quite as enlightened as they are and perhaps elected people lie Arnold and Bush willingly…
June 29th, 2006 at 6:20 pmThe Terminator: I know now why you cry. But it’s something I can never do.
June 29th, 2006 at 6:29 pmI am all for conservation and alternative fuels. However, this country can become self-sufficient if we conserve as well as open up the Outer Continental Shelf to Oil & Gas Exploration.
The Gulf Coast just went through a terrible hurricane last August with no oil spills except for some shut-in pipeline breaks. There are tons of Oil & Gas Offshore California and plenty of Natural Gas off the East Coast. Oil and Gas seeps occur naturally all over the world from the ocean floor.
Now is the time to think of exploration because it will take years to set up the infastructure to produce any new finds!
If we did not have Alaska or Gulf of Mexico Offshore Production today, the price of gasoline would be alot higher in this country!
These are the facts!
June 30th, 2006 at 5:53 pmI live in Norway, one of the most people places on the planet. Most of the shelf here is open for exploration and production. The rules are quite strict to protect the environment. Norway exports 95% of the oil and gas they produce.
It is a CROCK that the US coasts are off limits to exploration. Americans can take their giant SUV’s and shove them where the sun don’t shine. They want cheap gas from someone else’s back yard. I say give them $8 oil. And if Chevron happens to provide that oil (on someone else’s behalf), then all the better.
July 1st, 2006 at 8:20 am