Think Progress: Chevron Bankrolling Opposition to California Clean Energy Initiative
Where am I supposed to buy gasoline?
From ThinkProgress:
On Sunday, Chevron CEO David O’Reilly appeared on Meet the Press and emphasized the importance of “promoting alternatives” to fossil fuels. “Most of our companies are involved in this. I know we are.” Shell CEO John Hofmeister agreed: “There’s so much we can do in this country” on “the alternatives of wind, solar, biofuels, hydrogen.”
Chevron has a strange way of getting “involved.”
Californians will vote this November on a landmark ballot initiative, called the Clean Alternative Energy Initiative, which would “impose a wellhead tax on oil companies operating in California” to finance $4 billion towards alternative-fuel vehicles and renewable energy and conservation research.
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. (Help fight back — join Kick the Oil Habit.)”
Source: Think Progress � Chevron Bankrolling Opposition to California Clean Energy Initiative
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