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With California Ballot Props, Nothing Is Ever As It Seems

Posted on June 26, 2008

Capitol Weekly peels back the layers on two initatives headed for the ballot this November. While neither is numbered yet, one would authorize the issuance of $5 billion in bonds to develop and encourage the use of clean alternative fuels and renewable energy, with half the money going to new or repowered clean vehicles. The other would require all utilities--whether municipal or private--to get at least half of their electricity from clean- and solar-power sources by 2025. As written and presented, both appear to be fairly straightforward, environmentally friendly measures. But ballot intia...

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