See the AP article: "Oil companies raise $30M to fight severance tax"?

[CornField]

This is the type of determination we are up against... and this is the amount of money they can raise in their 'pass the hat' efforts.

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/15266493.htm

SACRAMENTO - Facing a potentially hostile electorate, oil companies have pumped nearly $30 million so far into a campaign to defeat Proposition 87, the November ballot measure that would tax oil producers to pay for alternative energy programs.
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Opponents had raised $29.8 million through Friday, including $12.8 million from Chevron and $12.6 million from Aera Energy, a joint venture of Exxon and Shell oil companies.

[katinmn]

1. Watch where the money goes. Then expose them as oil puppets.

[lonestarnot]

2. Ignore the money and make them pay.