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Still the focus of this story must be on LA, because here there are 10,000 solar activist who actually have a snowball's chance to make LA the first 100% solar powered city in the US. Not only because this is the largest municipal utility district in the US, but because this is one of the sunniest areas of the US. If anyone can make this story happen, it will be LA. This is truly the city of the come-back kid. At the same time, just south of the boarder, sunny, sunny Mexico is selling off its oil rights to the highest bidders, to plunge Mexico into an even deeper smog cloud. Mexico could easily have become a solar power-house, if, if they would just take advantage of all the billions of high quality solar panels China is offering the world at bargain basement prices. Just to the East of LA the homeowners of bright Arizona are now being attacked by the 10 largest oil companies. Big oil has formed a secret committee called ALEC, ( the American Legislative Exchange Council ) that is working every night to ban the solar feed-in tariff policy from being passed in the US. Big oil is doing everything it can to kill the baby of solar energy in it crib. In San Francisco, Shell Oil has quietly taken over the Green Party and has convinced the greens to give Shell Oil $1 billion in tax payers hard earned money to build a solar farm in Nevada. The headline of the local Solar Times was, "Feeding the Beast to Green the Planet"? A battle royal is waging in the streets of SF as Shell Oil & the Green Party attempt to destroy solar power in SF & Marin county. It is inevitable that solar power will win this battle, so it is sort of fun to watch the greens commit suicide. It is inevitable the unions & solar power will win this battle for the heart of SF. The Mayor of Lancaster, LA country jumped into the middle of this flaming stew by declaring that all new houses in Lancaster must now be solar powered. That put Mayor Rex Parris on the front page of every newspaper in the world. This army of solar supporters, from the eastern edge of LA, came out of the blue and put the odds of LA winning this battle for the very future of the world energy policy front and center. copyright 2013, paul kangas