Don’t do it California. Don’t let this Proposition 23 thing go through. I feel odd throwing in my two cents, because I’m not a resident so I can’t even vote on it, but you’ve proven your obliviousness to your own well-being before, so I feel it’s my civic duty to address the issue, even if I do live three thousand miles away. Maybe you’ll be more self-interested on this one if enough outsiders rant about it. If you’re not aware of what Proposition 23 is about, here’s the nutshell version: two Texas oil companies – Tesoro Corp. and Valero Energy Corp. – are spending over $100 million dollars to try to roll back California’s visionary emissions reduction plans, which were intended to limit California’s pollution levels in 2020 to what they were in 1990. The energy companies’ justification? They claim that the emission control legislation has caused California’s double-digit unemployment. Even if this were true – and it isn’t; there are plenty of states with double-digit unemployment that don’t have forward-thinking emission control legislation – what kind of effed up logic is THAT? “Honey, I know it’s sad that the kids can’t play outside today for fear of being asphyxiated by the sooty, mustard brown air, but at least we have JOBS…” C’mon California, get it together. Don’t let a bunch of rich, fossil-fuel Texans tell you how to run your state. Use your unemployment as inspiration to INNOVATE. And even if you don’t care enough about your own state to act on this, think about the rest of us. Your air blows our way a lot. We want to be able to see the sunshine while we build our poop-powered cars made of hemp.