Comments on: Donâ€™t let the Big Oil money confuse you on Prop. 87

By: 3 Articles to recommend from Vinod Khosla at Justin Lee’s Web 2.0 Blog

3 Articles to recommend from Vinod Khosla at Justin Lee’s Web 2.0 Blog — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:33:30 +0000

[...] Donâ€™t let the Big Oil money confuse you on Prop. 87 Part 1 [...]

By: Venture Beat Contributors » Benefits of an alternative energy future: More jobs, economic growth, cheaper fuels, cleaner air

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 06:29:56 +0000

[...] Part I talked about why gas prices wonâ€™t go up. Part II talked about how and why prices for gasoline will decline. I discussed unfair, maybe unethical if not illegal tactics in Part III. Part IV was about health costs, defense costs, foreign policy costs, and other society. Part V is about the benefits. [...]

By: Venture Beat Contributors » The cost of Oil: Leukemia, Asthma, hostage to oil

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:50:17 +0000

[...] Part I talked about why gas prices wonâ€™t go up. Part II talked about how and why prices for gasoline will decline. I discussed unfair, maybe unethical if not illegal tactics in Part III. What about the costs to society? Health costs, defense costs, foreign policy costs, and other costs? That is Part IV. [...]

By: Venture Beat Contributors » The cost of Oil â€“ Leukemia, Asthma, hostage to oil

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:00:03 +0000

[...] Part I talked about why gas prices wonâ€™t go up. Part II talked about how and why prices for gasoline will decline. I discussed unfair, maybe unethical if not illegal tactics in Part III. What about the costs to society? Health costs, defense costs, foreign policy costs, and other costs? That is Part IV. [...]

By: Venture Beat Contributors » Donâ€™t let the Big Oil money confuse you on Prop 87, part III

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:28:21 +0000

[...] In Part I, I talked about why gas prices wonâ€™t go up. Part II talked about how and why prices for gasoline will decline. [...]

By: VentureBeat » The Prop. 87 “oil tax” showdown at VentureBeat

VentureBeat » The Prop. 87 “oil tax” showdown at VentureBeat — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:32:39 +0000

[...] 1) Vinod Khosla: Don’t let the Big Oil money confuse you 2) Robert Rapier: Proposition 87: Deceptively marketed 3) Vinod Khosla: Don’t let the Big Oil money confuse you, part II. [...]

By: Venture Beat Contributors » Donâ€™t let the Big Oil money confuse you on Prop. 87, part II

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:15:42 +0000

[...] My first piece talked about why gas prices wonâ€™t go up. Here I want to talk about how and why prices for gasoline will decline. [...]

By: Another Menlo VC

Another Menlo VC — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 04:00:19 +0000

Mr. Khosla, It’s a little bit of shame that you are dropping names instead of showing the arguments.

Even if I think Prop 87 is right, I see a fundamental conflict of interest here (with your support to this prop). And as a general advocate of good governance principles, I cannot support it.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:43:38 +0000

Are these the same Nobel-prize winning economists who said LTCM couldn’t fail or the ones who advocated deregulation of the energy industry?

By: Venture Beat Contributors » Prop 87: Deceptively marketed

Venture Beat Contributors » Prop 87: Deceptively marketed — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:30:42 +0000

[...] [Editor’s note. Robert Rapier, who has wrangled with Vinod Khosla before on these pages, responds to Vinod Khosla’s column yesterday supporting Prop. 87] [...]

By: William Jolitz

William Jolitz — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:36:15 +0000

It’s a war between the smart and the stupid. Vinod’s is with the angels here, against the decrepit, entrenched interests of a dying industry.

Bahrain is expected to run out of oil in a decade or so. Even with all the innovative ways to stretch this resource, through the use of more efficient engines, processing, refining and storage of existing oil energy resources, like those I saw at Stanford’s Global Climate Energy Workshop recently, we need more options to drive our economy.

More than money, we need to shift the mindset of the public, so they don’t just “think oil”. They need to “think energy” – the bigger picture.

Proposition 87 is a part of the shift in that thinking. And the “oilies” are drumming up the biggest scare campaign ever, using fear, cynicism, and doubt to energize the stupid side of the public, shouting down the smart side that can act to save our collective asses. Meanwhile, we’re drinking the oil bottle dry.

Back in the 70’s at Cal, following the oil crisis, alternative energy was hot. I took a engineering course, E161, where the economics of solar, biomass, and other energy systems was as important as the technologies themselves. Then, as now, the problem is in handling the entrenched interests.

The timing is right, there is enough of a political base for the will and determination, the technology is a hundred times better, and there’s no better champion for this than Vinod Khosla.

By: alpha24seven

alpha24seven — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:12:03 +0000

“A Nobel Prize winning economist told me that he did not see how this fee would make a noticeable difference in oil prices.”

Ummm…. A Nobel Prize winning economist needs to come up to speed. It won’t have any effect on OIL prices but it will most definitely raise the price of GASOLINE at the pump. The problem with your thesis is that you’re trying to paint the oil industry into a tidy little factual corner. Everyone knows the oil industry is an amorphous, excruciatingly ridiculous, gray “thing” that can never be held responsible for anything. So to say with any resolution of certainty that prices won’t go up with the passage of this initiative is a foolâ€™s errand. (I’m not calling you a fool BTW — figure of speech my good man)