Big Oil Companies Only Want The Best For You, Right?

Big Oil companies think they can be better at protecting your job — and the environment — than the government. This is why they oppose California’s AB 32.

Forget what happened when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April. Forget that our carbon emission levels are second only to China due to our dependence on oil. Even ignore the fact that most clean tech innovation these days is coming out of Asia, or that we’re losing manufacturing jobs to them because of our resistance to change. Big Oil is on your side.

Right?

AB 32, which was passed in 2006 through bipartisan support in the California legislature, calls for reducing California’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by 2020, and further cutting these emissions by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050. Among other things, it will require the California Air Resources Board to create a limit on carbon emissions. To get there California would have mandate cleaner cars, and focus on renewable energy and more efficient buildings powered by wind and solar.

Unfortunately, oil isn’t part of the equation.

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