California's Proposition 16 Defeated — A Victory for Energy's Good Guys
As I mentioned on Renewable Energy World, I take great pleasure in announcing a victory for the good guys in energy over the bad. California voters – I among them – defeated “Proposition 16” – signifying our outrage at Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E — a utility serving about 20 million people) to attempt to buy further monopolistic control of the state energy marketplace. The attempt was so brazen that voters easily saw the truth: the sole supporter and sole beneficiary of Prop 16 would have been PG&E itself.
“PG&E is a force for evil,” a San Francisco graduate student said. “I bundle up. I wear three sweaters, two hats and do jumping jacks before I will turn on the heat. I hate them. They are awful. And I’m a Buddhist. I don’t usually talk like this.”
Well, my friend, I’m not a Buddhist – in fact, I talk and write like this pretty-much constantly. And you’re right; they really are awful.
But despite the cash, justice has been served – at least this one time.
I was amazed that voters could see through this, despite the tremendous expenditures made by PG&E. There’s hope for democracy yet.
Yes. The more I realized how deceptive the ad campaign for this was, the more amazed I was that it lost.