Within 15 years, California will generate at least half
of its electricity from renewable resources and double
savings from energy efficiency gains, two milestones included in Senate
Bill (SB) 350. News coverage of this bill prior to its passage overlooked these
monumental targets and focused on the oil companies' unsightly lobbying to
remove a petroleum reduction goal from the bill. Meanwhile, few have noticed
the provisions of Senator de León's legislation that make replacing oil as the
dominant transportation fuel a core mission of the electric industry --
allowing Californians to "fill up" at home on cleaner electricity
that's the cost equivalent of dollar-a-gallon gas.
