2016 OR Governor's race: on Energy & Oil

Bud Pierce: End low-carbon fuel mandate: 19 cents-a-gallon hidden tax

Bud Pierce will:
• Start by not signing laws that make it more difficult for small businesses to grow good-paying jobs, as Kate Brown did in signing a 19 cents-a-gallon hidden gas tax (the low-carbon fuel mandate), a paid sick leave requirement and new state retirement plan for small businesses.
• Make Oregon once again a great place to do business by ending job-killing regulations mandates and cutting taxes on small businesses.
• Cut taxes on low and middle-income working families so they can keep more of their own money to spend or save for their kids' college or their own retirement.
• Push for a repeal of Kate Brown's low-carbon fuel mandate and end her 19 cents a gallon hidden gas tax in order to put more money in pockets of working (and motoring) Oregonians
• End giveaways and special tax breaks for politically-favored corporations.

Julian Bell: Combat climate change and promote clean energy

"At the moment there's no contingency plan in case the scientists do know more about the climate than the politicians," Bell's website says. "How can our politicians fail to use the best science when making their decisions about our future? We need a radical change of direction based on ingenuity, investment, science and reality based thinking."

Earlier this month, he told the Eugene Weekly newspaper that Brown was too quiet on environmental action.

Kate Brown: Angered environmentalists via compromise transportation bill