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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (38644)	3/3/2013 12:14:51 AM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86356

"It's certainly not to subsidize advocates of more expensive energy to our nation's consumers. That's is WEALTH TRANSFER from the consumers to corporations who are able to buy influence with the politicians. You, being a liberal/socialist, should understand that.. But logic is now beyond you.. you cannot (or refuse to) see the forest for the trees.. " I see it fine. You just nailed it. Chalk up two for the consumers. Kansas Ignores Koch Brothers, Keeps Renewable Energy Standard Posted on March 2, 2013 by Guest Contributor Kansas wind turbines via Shutterstock The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that twin votes in Kansas State House and Senate on Thursday put the kibosh on legislative efforts to roll back and delay Kansas’ renewable energy standard (RES). Passed in 2009, Kansas’ RES requires investor-owned utilities to generate 20 percent of peak demand electrical capacity from renewable sources by 2020. The American Wind Energy Association has actually highlighted the RES as a driving factor in the states burgeoning wind power sector — half of Kansas’ wind farms began operating between 2010 and 2012, after the RES went into effect. Unfortunately, Kansas has also been targeted by conservative anti-renewable efforts. Republican Rep. Dennis Hedke, the chairman of Kansas’ House Energy and Environment Committee, recently acknowledged he had private talks with a lobbyist for Koch Companies Public Sector LLC concerning the House bill to dilute the RES. (HB 2241) Even anti-tax activist Graver Norquist got in on the action, telling the state’s legislature it ought to abandon the “costly renewable energy mandate so as to mitigate its negative impact on the economy.” Read more at http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/02/kansas-ignores-koch-brothers-keeps-renewable-energy/#Sr7xROGXM6SpXxuF.99 California Voters Say Hell No to Texas Oil and Proposition 23 Posted: 11/03/10 12:27 AM ET .. California's Proposition 23, had it passed, would have effectively repealed the state's landmark global warming law. California is the world's 12th largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and its global warming law, passed in 2006, mandates the largest legislated reductions in greenhouse gases in the world. What's more, if implemented, California's global warming law sets a new floor for national standards once the push for federal legislation is renewed. Our California law is stronger than the extremely compromised bill that was offered in the Senate and is much closer to what scientists say is necessary to begin to blunt the effects of climate change. Valero and Tesoro, two Texas oil companies, provided the majority of funding for Proposition 23 and the effort to effectively repeal California's climate change law. The measure appears to be going down in defeat tonight by a wide margin. huffingtonpost.com