Oppose Offshore Drilling

Thank you to all who contacted their representative and senator last week!!! It was amazing how Bush just went quiet after last Wednesday. Apparently he's on the move again, and EDF has mobilized a petition--the text of which I wanted to share.

Coming soon I will have a cost analysis of the mobilization required after Pearl Harbor was attacked in '41.

I've been an oil man all my life, but this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of. -- Legendary Texas Oilman, T. Boone Pickens

Take action. Tell your members of Congress we cannot drill our way out of our energy crisis.

It's a hard truth, but the era of cheap oil is over. And opening up environmentally sensitive areas to oil drilling will not bring it back. 

Take action now. Tell your members of Congress that you oppose efforts to expand drilling in environmentally sensitive areas and that you support market-based policies to reward energy innovation to free us from our addiction to oil.

With gas prices at more than $4 per gallon, Americans are feeling the pain. In response, many politicians support a "quick fix" scheme to lift the ban on offshore drilling and expand drilling in environmentally sensitive areas like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

This is the wrong approach and it won't work. We cannot drill our way out of our energy problems.

In fact, the government's own Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that the amount of oil that might be available in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would reduce the cost of gas by a few pennies per gallon in 2027.

Estimates of how much oil might be available offshore vary, but one thing is sure: offshore oil exploration is slow and costly. The EIA estimated last year that opening the coasts to offshore drilling would have no significant impact on oil prices before 2030.

Tell your members of Congress we cannot drill our way out of our energy problems.

The only way to free ourselves from expensive oil is to get off of oil. And the best way to do that is to support market-based policies that create incentives to unleash clean energy innovation and create the clean economy of the 21st century.
 
That's precisely what a cap on global warming pollution will do: cut our oil imports (by as much as $490 billion over the next two decades) and kick start the development of clean energy alternatives.

Washington has waited too long to develop a common sense national energy policy, and with gas at $4 per gallon, we're now paying the price.

But we can respond to this energy crisis by demanding better energy policies that reward innovation and free us from oil.

Take action today.

Say NO to drilling in environmentally sensitive areas and YES to clean energy innovation.

Thanks for all you do,