. ktvu channel 2 news at 6 complete bay area coverage. >> the following paid production is not a production of ktvu fox 2 and the products of services mentioned are not necessarily endorsed by ktvu fox 2. the thing i don't think most californians don't understand yet is who is actually driving this initiative, who is fundinit. these two . >> the thing that i don't think they understand is who is actually driving it. who is funding it? these two texas oil companies they are the primary sponsors of the initiative. >> 96% of the funding for the

proposition 23 campaign is coming from the oil industry. and why are they sponsoring this? well, they make a ton of money from the status quo. california, in the last five years, they think they can come in here and change the rules about how they are allowed to produce energy and what kind of pollution they are allowed to create with money. >> paying fines for pollution cuts into their prove it margin, having to retrofit their refinery so they put out less pollution costs them money. >> prop 23 is basically saying i'm a rich oil company and i don't have to be accountable to the people of california, i can buy my way out of protecting human health. . >> at the most basic level the thing that we need to do to solve climate change is to stop emitting carbon dioxide. most of the pollution comes

from combustings of fossil individuals whether it is gasoline or fuel, burning less fuels will result in cleaner air. >> i have been involved in environmental matters for a long time, in the reagan administration we had the problem of the ozone layer, then in the first bush administration confronted the problem of acid rain. a no on 23 is a non-partisan effort, this is an issue that transcends party divisions , is important to all of california, and for that matter the united states and the world. >> i'm glad that it's not party lines, it's not conservative principles, it's dirty oil. that's all this comes down to. >> prop 33 is dirty prop 23 is dirty.

completely dirty. >> in 2006ab32 came on board as a clean emissions start to get oil refineries to reduce their emissions. >> we have got to continue our clean air laws and moving in the right direction and becoming less dependent on fossil fuels and really seek out those renewable sources of energy. >> california is blessed with so much sunshine it's a domestic fuel source and the solar costs are coming down, it's not only great because it's clean and green, but it's all so at a cost point that's making it very affordable. >> it could be the leader again. california could be the leader and win in wind, which is beautiful. >> it's wind. and there is always more of it. it's not gonna stop. >> the ev is electrical and filling an area of local transportation and daily transportation because it's the

cleanest. >> the industry really experienced a great growing business. >> there's customers wanting to buy and support, we saw large companies wanting to go green just on their own, we saw you know job growth, we all know it's coming, energy is the better way to go. >> if i look around as a green tech engineer, a lot of the open positions, open jobs, are in california dealing with green vehicles. green tech is booming and it's one of the ways that we can replace a lot of the things our country has lost. >> when the recession hit in the fall of '08 i lost a job as a quality auditor, box factory, subsequently we were kicked out of our house, didn't get unemployment. clean energy has provided me with employment and for that i'll be eternally great full. >> when i got laid off the family got laid off. i was a single mother, it was

definitely hard because i didn't have anybody on the financial side helping me. i lost my house and i was dealing with creditors, had to file bankruptcy, for two years i could not find a job. i couldn't find a job anywhere and found help and found a job in renewals, and i love it. you know, it's just a good field to be in, it's growing, i'm just very thankful that i am in this field and paying my bills again. >> having been there for 16 years, having that taken away, it's definitely hard for my family. bills start to pile up and the baby is born, insurance is no longer active so you have to payout of pocket for everything, we were very desperate for a year. i work now in a company that is a renewable industry. renewals is something that my family could depend on, something that is growing, something that is keeping not only my family afloat, but also provides jobs for other people. >> renewable energy means jobs for me.

coming from the auto industry that shut down, we lost over 5,000 jobs. >> renewable energy is a breath of fresh airily for me and my family to have a job and for the future. i was unemployed for four months looking for a job and the renewable energy market was a lot bigger than just about any of the other markets i was looking into. >> it's so exciting to know that so many people can be touched in so many different ways by one industry and one dream. there are people who are working who wouldn't be working. >> what big oil is saying is that clean energy kills jobs, that's a fallacy, it's not true. clean energy has had ad jobs for my firm. it's added jobs in record numbers here in california. and these are good-paying jobs. >> a lot of the people who are working out here stay at the hotels, go out to the restaurants, and shop in the stores show that really makes the local people very happy. >> not only do we have the wind

farms but we have actually got manufacturing here for the wind turbines as well. so the wind companies are our biggest employers for the area. >> they are mass caraiding this as a jobs issue whenin fact, what it would actually do is undermine the most dynamic section of the economy because clean tech jobs are growing at a rate 10 times faster than the rest of the economy and this is the last time when you want to turn off the faucet for this portion of the economy. this is the future of california and really oil is the past. >> the oil companies, they have taken millions of dollars, poured it into prop 23 to trick us into saying "well this is going to create jobs" it's not going to create jobs, it's going to kill jobs. prop 23 is nothing but a job killing bill. there have been 500,000 clean jobs since the start of the renewable energy and this is going to kill renewable energy

jobs. >> it's critical we defeat prop 23 and keep the capital flowing into california and use this renewable energy, green energy, boom to fuel our economic recovery. >> the exciting think about the renewable energy piece is that it's going to create jobs that did not exist. we need to stop talking about the jobs that have been lost to china and burma and india, those jobs are not coming back. we have got to find new and renewable energy ways to create w jobs and it's just going to be an economic boom. it's going to be an explosion that we haven't seen before in this country. that's how big this wle renewable energy piece is. >> the center of the job growth is right here in california. we have about 60% of the market in the united states, and hundreds of companies, tens of thousands of people work in this industry. this industry is exploding, this technology is affordable, and it's creating jobs and

energy security right here at home in california. >> i came to california because it was the first place the military sent me. one of the reasons i really care about this proposition is it's fair to call it a dirty oil proposition, dirty energy proposition, is it puts at risk what is beautiful and that's california. >> our and st. being forced. our military and the men and women who followed me in uniform continue to be deployed around the world be can you say we have an economy tied to dirty oil. >> there is no question that no on 23 is a great environmental statement. but it's also a patriotic statement. it's also saying, as an american, as a californian, we want energy independence, we want to make sure that we're standing on our own economically, and that we're not importing petroleum.

>> if there are two things you remember about prop 23 and why it's so devastating for us, understand one, it would knock out all the clean energy jobs and the growth we're gonna city in an incredibly vibrant and enlarged part of the economy. and is the second thing is it's really bad for the health of californians. >> i have patients that come and see me and they tell me that they can't breathe. there's many things outside of their control the air quality, pollution, is outside of their control. >> to not be able to help their patients, that's what doctors are supposed to do, right? we're supposed to help patients, to feel better or to fix or cure them, when you can't do that it's very heartbreaking when you can't do that. >> proposition 23 is gonna exacerbate smog and potentially negate a bunch of years of progress we have already made in cleaning up the air. >> these oil companies are putting this proposition on our ballot for their bottom line

and it's to the detriment of california's public health. . >> a ballot issue that is funded primarily by the oil from another state to me represents a disaster. >> it makes me angry that agreed and prove it are what's behind proposition 23, that isgonna affect our air quality, and also, what, so oil companies will have more money? >> the fact that we're getting this much attention from them shows that we're cutting into their profits and that renewable energy is starting to scare them. >> voting no on prop 23 is absolutely essential for protecting california's economy. >> when you really look at it the right decision for everybody is to vote no on prop 23. >> the american lung association feels strongly that prop 23 must be defeated. >> prop 23 is a threat and i

would definitely say no is the right choice. >> no on 23, prop 123 is a job killer, a vote for dirty energy, a vote for dirty air. >> i wish that they would send their money and efforts in terms of cleaning up their refineries rather than trying to pass proposition 23. >> i can't underline enough the importance of no on 23. >> prop 23 is an attempted to cut the legs out from under the new energy economy. >> we must vote no on prop 23. it is a matter of life and death ♪ [ music bow letter oh

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♪[ music the thing i don't think most californians really understand, yet, is who is actually driving this initiative, who is funding it. these two texas oil companies, tesoro and veteran pitchers letter oh corporationings, are the primary sponsors of the prop 23. 90% of the money is coming from the oil industry and why are they sponsoring this? well they make a ton of money from the status quo. >> valero and tesoro, i think these guys think they are on a roll, they have made $9 billion between them in california in the last five years, they think they can come in and change the rules out how they are allowed to create pollution for money. >> having to retrofit their refineries so they put out less

pollution costs them money. >> prop 23 is basically saying "i'm a rich oil company and i don't have to be accountable to the people of california, i can buy my way out of protecting human health." >> at the most basic level the thing that we need to do to solve climate change is to stop emitting carbon dioxide. most of the air pollution comes from combustion of fossil fuels, whether it's coal or oil or gasoline, burning less fossil fuels will result in cleaner air. >> i have been involved in environmental matters for a long time. in the reagan administration we had the problem of the ozone layer and then in the first bush administration con fronted the problem of acid rain. the effort for no on 23 is a non-partisan effort. this is an issue that

transcends party divisions and it is important to all of california and, for that matter, the united states and the world. >> i'm glad that it's not party lines, it's not conservative versus liberals, it's us versus dirty oil and that's all this comes down to. >> prop 23 is dirty, completely dirty ab32 was meant to clean up our air and our quality of life. >> in 2006, ab32 came on board as a clean emissions standard to get oil refineries to reduce their emissions. . >> we have got to continue our you are clean air laws and moving in the right direction and becoming less dependent on fossil fuels and really seek out those renewable sources of energy. >> california is blessed with so much sunshine, it's a domestic fuel source and a the

solar costs are coming down. it's not only great because it's clean and green but it's also at a cost point that's making it very affordable. >> it could be the leader again. california could be the leader in wind. it's just beautiful. it's just wind. you know. there is always more of it. it's not gonna stop. >> plus the ev is filling in an area of local transportation, daily transportation, because it's the cleanest. >> renewable energy's industry really is a great growing business. >> customers are wanting to buy and support renewals, there's large companies wanting to go green just on their own, we saw job growth, we all know it's clean, renewable energy is the better way to go. >> as i look around as a green tech engineer a lot of the open positions, open jobs, are in california dealing with green

vehicles. green tech is booming and it's one of the ways that we can replace the largesse that our country has lost. >> when the recession hit in the fall of '08 i lost a job as a quality auditor at a box factory. subsequently we were kicked out of our house, didn't get unemployment insurance. clean energy has provided me with employment and, for that, i'll be eternally grateful. >> when i got laid off the family got laid off. i was a single mother, it was definitely hard because i didn't have anybody on the financial side helping me. i lost my house, and i was dealing with creditors, had to file bankruptcy. for two years i could not find a job. i couldn't find a job anywhere. and found help and found a job in renewals. and i love it. you know, it's just a good field to be in, it's growing. i'm just very thankful that i'm in this field and paying my bills again. >> having been employed in this industry for 16 years, having that taken away, it's

definitely hard for my family. bills start to pile up and the baby is born, insurance is no an longer active so you have to payout of pocket for everything. we were for a year. i work now in a company that is renewable industry. renewals is something my family can depend on, something that is growing, something that is keeping not only my family afloat but also provides jobs for other people. >> renewable energy means jobs for me. coming from the auto industry that shut down, we lost over 5,000 jobs. >> renewable energy is really a breath of fresh air for me and my family. to have a job and for the future. >> i was unemployed for four months looking for a job and the renewable energy market was a lot bigger than just about any of the other markets that i was looking into. >> illegal immigrants so into. it's so exciting to know that

people can be changed by one industry, one dream. there are people who are working that wouldn't be working. >> what big oil is saying is that clean energy kills jobs. that's a fallacy. it's not true. clean energy has had ad jobs for my firm. it has had ad jobs in record numbers here in california. and these are good-paying jobs. >> a lot of the people who are working out here stay at the hotels, go out to the restaurants and shop in the stores, so that really makes the local people very happy. >> you know, not only do we have the wind farms, but we have actually got manufacturing here for the wind turbines as well. so the wind companies are our biggest employers for the area. >> lee sore oh and valero are mass caraiding this as a jobs issue when in fact what it would do is undermine the most dynamic section of the economy because clean tech jobs are growing at a rate 10 times faster than the leapt of the economy and this is the last time you want to turn off the faucet for this portion of the

economy. this is the future of california and, really, oil is the past. >> the oil companies, they have taken millions of dollars, poured it into prop 23 to trick us into saying "well this is going to create jobs." it's not going to create jobs, it's going to kill jobs. prop 23 is nothing but a job killing bill. there have been 525,000 clean jobs in california since the start of the renewable energy and this is going to kill jobs. >> it's really critical we defeat 23 and keep the capital flowing into california and use this renewable energy, green energy boom, to fuel our economic recovery. >> the exciting think about the renewable energy piece is that it's going to create jobs that did not exist. we need to stop talking about the jobs that have been lost to china and burma and india. those jobs are not coming back. we have got to find new and renewable energy ways to create new jobs and it's just going to

be an economic boom. it's going to be an explosion that we haven't seen before in this country. that's how big this whole renewable energy piece is. >> the center of the solar job growth is right here in california. we have about 60% of the market in the united states and hundreds of companies, tens of thousands of people, working in this industry. this industry is exploding. this technology is affordable and it's creating jobs and energy security right here at home in california. . >> i came to california because it was the first place, it was first place the military sent me. one of the reasons i really care about this proposition is it's fair to call it a dirty oil proposition, dirty energy proposition, is it puts at risk what is beautiful and that's california. >> our and st. being forced. our military and our, and the men and women who followed me

in uniform, continue to be deployed around the world because we have an economy tied to dirty oil. >> there is no question that no on 23 is a great environmental statement. but it's also a patriotic statement. it's also saying, as an american, as a californian, we want energy independence, we want to make sure that we are standing on our own economically, and that we're not importing petroleum. >> if there are two things you remember about prop 23 and request it's so devastating for us, understand one, it would knock out all the clean jeopardizing jobs and the growth we're going to see in an incredibly vibrant and enlargedded part of the economy; and the second part is it's really bad for the health of californians. >> i have patients that come and see me and they tell me that they can't breathe. there's many things that are outside of their control. the air quality, pollution , is outside of their control.

to not be able to help your parents, that's what doctors are supposed to do, right, we are supposed to help our patients, we're supposed to help them or fix them or cure them and when you can't do that, it's very heartbreaking when you can't do that. >> proposition 23 is going to exacerbate smog and potentially negate a bunch of years of progress we have already made in cleaning up the air. >> these oil companies are putting this proposition on our ballot for their bottom line and it's to the detriment of california's public health. music. >> a ballot issue that is funding primarily by the oil from another state, to me -- >> it makes me mad that what's behind proposition 23 that it's going to affect our air quality and also what the oil companies will have some more money.

>> the fact that we're getting this much attention from them shows that we're cutting into their profits and that renewable energy is starting to scare them. >> a no vote on prop 23 is absolutely essential for protecting california's economy. >> when you really look at it the right decision for everybody is to vote no on prop 23. >> the american lung association feels strongly that prop 23 must be defeated. >> prop 23 is a threat and i will definitely say no. it's the right choice. >> no on prop 23. >> proposition 23 is a job killer, a vote for dirty energy, a vote for dirty air. >> i wish that they would send their money and their efforts in terms of cleaning up their refineries rather than trying to pass proposition 23. >> i can't underline enough the importance of no on 23. >> prop 23 is an attempt to cut the legs out from under the new energy economy. >> we must vote no on prop 23. it is a matter of life and death. for

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