Open Letter to President & Congress

Join me in protesting off shore drilling and pushing for investment in local renewable resources!!!

 

Contact the Whitehouse

 comments@whitehouse.gov.

Contact your senators and representative

 http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

 http://www.house.gov/writerep/

You'll want your 4 digit extension for the ZIP, as many ZIP's have multiple representatives.

Dear Mr. President,

It is with a considerable amount of concern I have watched your urging of Congress to drill offshore. For many reasons--recent tightening of the energy market has brought home the fact that our economy and way of life has been exploiting a resource that is severely flawed.

Oil is a non renewable resource; if we have reached peak oil production, then our population growth will far exceed supply--if not tomorrow, very soon.  Oil funds terrorists-by getting off oil, we will deflate Iran, Venezuela, and Al Qaeda.

 Dropping the speed limit to 55 would save over 61 million barrels a year, 30 times what allowing offshore drilling would bring (Energy Secretary Bodman). Which scenario helps the american taxpayer and which helps lobbyists and oilmen? Offshore estimates of energy production are only 2 million barrels of oil, *at some point* in the next decade. Which is the better move to keep American running?

Of the 90 million offshore acres the industry has leases to, upwards of 70 million are not producing oil, according to oil-industry sources. Drilling current leases, U.S. oil production could be boosted by nearly 5 million barrels a day, up from about 8 million barrels a day currently. Why would we reward an industry that is being lazy?

Local renewable energy can renew our economy—there are 166 renewable energy generators in NC. Chevron and GM have bought into renewable energy, its time for the government to wise up. Oil is a dying industry, using its least throes to squeeze another dime out of America.

 The time to fix the roof is while the sun is still shining—that rainy day is threatening.