CA Gov. Jerry Brown Interview: Keystone Pipeline

KQED's JOHN MYERS: What do you think about the keystone project?

BROWN: I don't have to make that decision.

MYERS: You know there's some people in the state who are very closely watching it. They're worried about the Obama administration...

BROWN: And I'm concerned about it too. And I've got so many things on my plate that , look, here's the main point on keystone, on fracking, on driving cars. We have to curb greenhouse gases. California is the leader in that, we have to move even faster but we gotta get the rest of the world going with us cuz we're only one percent -- California. So it isn't just one project. The real question is do we have a framework of policy and commitment to reduce petroleum consumption and the generation of greenhouse gases at the rate needed to keep the change in temperature to 2 degrees centigrade. And the answer is no we don't. It's not even close! In the rest of the world, California is the leader. So whatever Obama ends up doing on keystone, I'm committed to having California lead the rest of the nation and the world in reducing the use of gasoline, oil, and all the other petroleum products, methane and the rest of it. So we don't destroy the fabric of life that we all depend on.

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