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The Truthiness Report

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Eric Brooks says:

There is one very big inaccuracy in your Prop H report. You reported “The 2008 ballot measure is different from its predecessors, because it mandates that San Francisco actively reduce greenhouse gases by running a public power agency.”

This is not correct at all. Prop H mandates only that the City reach 51% clean energy by 2017, 75% by 2030, and 100% by 2040. Prop H has -no- mandate that these benchmarks be reached by creating a municipal utility.

If PG&E were to produce sufficient clean energy at reasonable prices to meet these mandates, Prop H would allow the City to continue to choose PG&E as it’s energy provider.

If PG&E does -not- produce sufficient low cost clean energy soon enough, Prop H enables the City to build its own renewable energy facilities to meet the mandates.

Gino Rembetes says:

Neither side talks about the costs of not moving the city to totally clean sourcing of energy. The public-health and environmental consequences of inaction are already painfully evident, especially in the neighborhoods that PG&E’s and Mirant’s power plants have poisoned, and that should trump any and all arguments about money.