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“Titanavatarinator” director James Cameron is out with a new campaign ad that opposes California ballot initiative Proposition 23, which would stop the state’s extreme global warming emissions law (Assembly Bill 32) until its unemployment rate falls below 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters:
Cameron blames the financial aid provided by “two Texas oil companies” (Valero and Tesoro) in support of Prop 23 that he alleges will be “terminating our air pollution standards” and “sinking our clean energy economy.” Yet the only standard affected is the one that attempts to reduce the odorless, colorless gas (carbon dioxide) that mammals constantly exhale, whose alteration has not been proven to show any effect on global temperatures. And that Golden State clean energy economy has shown itself to be a roaring success as well, contributing to its 12.4 percent unemployment rate.
But as Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinny have shown, Cameron has trouble following the admonitions he gives to everybody else:
Meanwhile, the Natural Resources Defense Council has also picked up on the “two Texas dirty oil companies” theme, in a much more clever ad than Cameron’s:
Of course, the NRDC isn’t going to tell you that green groups and alternative energy companies (in other words, rent-seekers) have contributed twice as much (over $19 million) in opposition to Prop 23 as supporters, according to the Los Angeles Times.
But that’s okay; I’m sure business- and industry-friendlier Texas will be happy to take more of those job gains.
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WJ| 10.28.10 @ 2:02PM
Born and raised in Calif, but left about 15 years ago.
I know that a yes vote on Prop 23 would be good for the State. However, a part of me wants to see California enact stringent job-killing, energy killing legislation.
I believe that only when the rest of the country sees the light switches not turn on in Calif, will people begin to understand how anti-human environmentalists truly are.
It is just so sad that so many Californians are going to lose their jobs over complying with this emissions law
Coop| 10.28.10 @ 5:34PM
So so sad...fear mongering will hopefully die with the rest of you old, conservative farts
PattyMor| 10.28.10 @ 3:35PM
If they want all their industries to leave, sit in dark with no air conditioning, walk to w ork, smoke pot and say rad man!! let them have the "green phanthom". However, don't expect the rest of the country to bail you out, you are on your own.
Coop| 10.28.10 @ 5:36PM
Hell yeah Patty...it'll be a party in hell and your old ass will be left out in the smog!
West| 10.28.10 @ 8:44PM
There stands California with a gun to her head. "Everybody do as I say or I swear I'll pull the trigger! I mean it!"
Adios amiga!
southernsue| 11.6.10 @ 2:53PM
let them do whatever they want to. they will just become a third world state.
america, JUST DON'T BAIL THEM OUT!
maybe their beloved hollyweird will bail them out.