Which Way, L.A.?
Environmental Protection or Corporate Welfare?
Prop 10 would raise $5 billion in bonds to help consumers and corporations buy alternative-fuel vehicles. It's opposed by a broad coalition including the state's major environmental organizations. Also, unprecedented violence in Mexico as drug cartels turn on each other...
By Warren Olney • • 30m ListenProposition 10 would raise $5 billion in bonds to help consumers and corporations buy alternative-
Proposition 10 would raise $5 billion in bonds to help consumers and corporations buy alternative fuel vehicles, but it's opposed by a broad coalition including the state's major environmental organizations. What does natural gas have to do with it? We also hear about unprecedented violence in Mexico as drug cartels divided by law enforcement and personal rivalries turn on each other.
fuel vehicles, but it's opposed by a broad coalition including the state's major environmental organizations. What does natural gas have to do with it? We also hear about unprecedented violence in Mexico as drug cartels divided by law enforcement and personal rivalries turn on each other.
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2 storiesProposition 10: Environmental Protection or Corporate Giveaway?
Proposition 10 was put on next month's ballot by the Clean Energy Fuels Corporation in Seal Beach. It's owned by the Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens and produces natural gas. The $5 billion bond measure would provide more than $3 billion in rebates for vehicles that run on alternative fuels, including natural gas.
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Since the beginning of this year, there have been 1,000 murders along the US border with Mexico. In the past week, 57 killings in Tijuana alone—16 in a 24 hour period yesterday and the day before.
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