Why do I advocate for a NO VOTE on Prop 16 this June?
No on Prop 16 / No PG&E monopoly (Cartoon: www.calbuzz.com)
Proposition 16 would pretty much secure a PG&E monopoly! Prop 16 is a constitutional amendment PG&E is proposing that would require a 2/3 vote for local communities that want to have an alternative, cleaner source of energy. For those of you who don’t know, California has a near IMPOSSIBLE time achieving a 2/3 vote. Prop 16 would seriously endanger the ability of local communities like mine AND yours to have any self determination when it comes to our energy choices.
I want cleaner energy in my community, and I don’t think a company should be allowed to change my state’s constitution.
Want to know what more “official” sources are saying about Prop 16? Here is what has been said by a few sources that I trust.
In an editorial, the Sacramento Bee says… Don’t be snookered by PG&E’s Prop. 16
If you are a customer of Pacific Gas and Electric, you probably are feeling pretty sore right now. Not only does PG&E charge higher rates than some utilities (such as SMUD), but it is spending vast sums of money on a self-serving constitutional amendment, Proposition 16.
Proposition 16 is the worst of the worst of the measures on the June ballot. This initiative would rewrite the state constitution to restrict municipal electric utilities from expanding service unless voters approved it by a two-thirds vote. It is so badly drafted that many developers are opposing it for fear it would trigger a two-thirds vote whenever new hookups are planned for a new subdivision in an area served by public power.
The Wall Street Journal quotes Michael Peevey, President of CPUC and a former president of Southern California Edison…
Prop. 16 embodied a “blatant misuse” of the election process. “Imagine a single company trying to seek protection for its monopoly status in a state constitution,” he said. “It’s offensive.”
The measure, Proposition 16, would amend the state constitution to require the state’s 47 city-owned utilities and a new kind of supplier called a “community choice aggregator” to hold public elections to add new customers. Two-thirds of voters would have to approve a utility’s expansion plan for it to proceed.
To find out which other newspapers are against Proposition 16, visit the Local Clean Energy Alliance.
To learn more about Proposition 16 and to learn which organizations, cities and businesses are against it, go to http://noprop16.org/.
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