HUGE PRICE TAG SEEN FOR CALIFORNIA INITIATIVE

A preliminary study of the economic effects of California's Big Green initiative shows that it would impose staggering costs on industry, consumers, and government. Especially hard hit would be the petroleum industry, according to the study by Spectrum Economics Inc., San Francisco, for the California Coordinating Council, a coalition formed by businesses and associations to defeat the initiative. The council hired San Francisco political consultants Woodward & McDowell to lead the