Down with Prop 23

It is unbelievable to me that the people of California would buy into the rhetoric of the oil industry. With several million dollars coming out of Valero, Tesoro, and Occidental combined, Proposition 23, which is on the November ballot in California, would repeal and completely undue the progress made in promoting renewable energy and for that matter in working to address the issue of combating global warming pollutants.

Yet again an out state special interest (I still can't believe Prop. 8 passed, what is going in in my home state?) is spinning the people of California's fears of joblessness (granted over 12 percent unemployment is pretty outrageous) but let's remember that the crash of the housing market and overpriced oil and energy expenses (caused not by the law combating pollution but by greedy energy producers upset that California is actually forward thinking) is the reason for California's outrageous state of affairs.

One thing I would like to suggest is folks go to the Facebook page of the proponents of Prop 23 and start flagging it as a scam. Prop 23 is a scam of the worst caliber; it sells itself as a we need to protect jobs, yet those jobs and that revenue are for oil and industries that continue to pollute the planet and the health of Californians and the people of the rest of the world.

Don't buy it California!