rssKoch Brothers Spend Big to Derail Greenhouse Gas Law in California
Thursday, September 09, 2010 at 12:15 pm
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Are the Koch brothers thoughtful billionaires committed to the free expression of their libertarian beliefs, or do they pick their political causes with an eye trained closely to the enrichment of their carbon-heavy industries? The answer, of course, is a little bit of both, but Dan Morain of the Sacramento Bee makes a pretty good case today that their spending in California in favor of Proposition 23 falls firmly into the latter camp:
Koch Industries’ wholly owned subsidiary Flint Hills Resources, based in Kansas, tossed in $1 million to help win passage of Proposition 23, the initiative to roll back California’s 2006 law to reduce greenhouse gases.
It makes perfect sense. Koch Industries is deep into fossil fuel. To the extent the Kochs can bring about their regulation-less vision, they and their corporation would become richer still.
Successful passage of Prop 23 would kill California’s AB 32, a landmark law to reduce carbon emissions in the state. California’s new law can only do so much to restructure the country’s energy economy on its own, but the size of the state’s economy, combined with the visibility of its politics, is what makes petroleum industry chiefs like the Kochs so nervous about the law going into effect. As David Koch once told Morain in 1993, while sponsoring a different California ballot initiative, “If you can win the voucher initiative in California, it can win elsewhere. It is such a highly visible state.”
Now the Kochs are at it again, spending big money on Prop 23, and they’re getting help from their nonprofit organization, Americans for Prosperity, which has recently been accused of engaging in an improper amount of direct political advocacy. According to David Spady, the group’s California director, “Prop. 23 is our highest priority.”
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Comment posted September 9, 2010 @ 7:06 pm
The California Jobs initiative (CJI) is an oil corporation farce and fraud. There is no connection, whatsoever, between greenhouse gas emission reduction and the loss of jobs. This notion is an insult to the intelligence of the people of California. In fact, there is job growth in the clean, renewable energy industry. Chevron employs 65,000 worldwide and CJI is not going to change this. The only jobs created by the oil industry are clean-up jobs after oil spills and deep water, blow-outs and pump-handler jobs. CJI will fantastic profits for the oil industry, increase air pollution, especially in communities around thir refineries, and there will not be lower gas prices. Koch Industries is a super Enron. Since when did the oil companies start to show any concern for the unemployed and their families?
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Comment posted September 10, 2010 @ 12:26 pm
@Erichcspc, you're kidding, right? AB32 will raise the cost of energy (with no effect on the environment, mind you). That makes things more expensive. If the cost goes up, people buy less stuff. They buy less, companies make less, which means fewer jobs. Bottom line is that you can't make less stuff using more resources and expect to come out ahead.
And please, will everyone focus on the issue itself, not the Koches. That's getting pretty old. They fund all sorts of public policy research and campaigns, not just environmental issues. A quick google search makes that pretty darn obvious. Apparently Jane Mayer found it easier to rely on the Center for America Progress and the White House for info…
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