"We've got to make sure this city is on 100 percent renewable energy," San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee told the crowd. Folks in attendance were decked out in cowboy hats, to commemorate the defeat last year of Proposition 23 -- the ballot measure backed by Texas oil companies that would have derailed California's landmark global warming law.
"Not just municipal," added Lee, noting the city now generates 17 megawatts of solar electricity. "Everybody has got to do that. Everybody. We want the whole city in 2020 to be 100 percent renewable energy." See also: Repower America: 100% clean electricity within 10 years
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