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SF green public power launch gets price tag: $19.5 million

San Francisco’s ambitious public power launch would take $19.5 million, according to a new report that pins down for the first time the program’s startup budget. The City is negotiating with Shell Energy North America to run CleanPowerSF, a public power program to supply residents with a 100 percent green-energy alternative to PG&E. Read More

SF gas station's fuel giveaway on Spare the Air Day prompts criticism

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On a hot, smoggy day in which Bay Area commuters were urged to renounce their cars for more carbon-friendly transit options, some 240 motorists each guzzled up to 15 gallons of free fuel as part of a giveaway event at an Outer Mission district gas station. Despite Wednesday being a regional Spare the Air Day, a Shell gas station at 3550 Mission St. distributed free gas from 7 to 9 a.m. Station Manager Hugo Cerna said the giveaway was scheduled “quite some time ago.” Read More

Some welcome signs of life from private sector

Grass somehow manages to grow up through small cracks in the sidewalk. Similarly, the American private sector somehow seems to be exerting itself despite the vast expansion of government by the Obama administration and congressional Democrats. Read More
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