GOP Energy Bill to Pass Unless YOU Stop it!

[the ether]

The message below, an open letter from Robert
> Redford about the awful consequences if Congress
> passes the Bush-Cheney energy bill
>
> http://www.savebiogems.org
>
>
> Dear Friend,
>
> Over the next few weeks, President Bush and his
> congressional allies will try once again to ram
> their disastrous energy bill through the U.S.
> Senate. They fell only two votes short in November
> and they've vowed to make passage of the bill their
> top priority now that Congress has returned from
> recess.
>
> This bill may be the worst piece of legislation you
> and I will see in our lifetimes. It would pick your
> pocket, despoil your natural heritage, endanger your
> family's health and smother your hope for a more
> secure energy future. We ignore this bill at our own
> peril.
>
> Let me tell you our simple plan for thwarting this
> shameless attack on our environment and pocketbooks.
> If millions of Americans each took one minute to
> protest this bill, it would cause every senator who
> is tempted to vote for it to think twice about doing
> so.
>
> You can make this happen within the next few hours
> by doing two things:
>
> First, go to
> http://www.savebiogems.org/takeaction.asp and send
> your two senators an email or fax, telling them to
> vote against this pro-polluter energy bill.
>
> Then, forward my email to at least four of your
> friends, family members or colleagues.
>
> I am emailing this message to 500,000 BioGems
> Defenders and other NRDC activists. If each one
> forwards this message to just four more people, we
> will generate a national tidal wave of opposition
> before this day is over.
>
> And that won't be a moment too soon. This
> disgraceful bill would pick our pockets to hand out
> billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to the
> oil, coal and nuclear industries. That's their
> long-awaited reward for making big-time
> contributions to the Bush-Cheney campaign. They
> profit while the rest of us pay the price -- in tax
> dollars and environmental degradation.
>
> This bill gives the energy giants a free pass to
> drill their way through our last wild places, burn
> more dirty coal, build a new generation of risky
> nuclear power plants and dramatically increase air
> pollution that would sicken the vulnerable --
> especially children and seniors -- for decades to
> come.
>
> It would establish oil and gas development as the
> dominant use of our federal public lands, open
> national parks to the construction of electricity
> transmission lines, exempt polluters from core
> provisions of our clean air and water laws and waive
> liability for the producers of the toxic gasoline
> additive MTBE -- even though it has contaminated at
> least 1,500 public water supplies in all 50 American
> states.
>
> You'd be hard-pressed to come up with a more
> backward-looking, wasteful and self-defeating energy
> "plan" than this one. At a time when the federal
> deficit is soaring and we're going to war in the
> Persian Gulf oilfields, the White House wants to
> stick us with the tab for prolonging our destructive
> dependence on fossil fuels, foreign oil and
> dangerous nuclear technology.
>
> This is not a national energy policy. This is
> corporate welfare, pure and simple. Estimates of the
> bill's corporate tax breaks range from $23 billion
> to well over $100 billion with loan guarantees
> included. No surprise there. Big energy companies
> cooked up this raid on the federal treasury during
> hundreds of secret meetings with Vice President
> Cheney's energy task force and their allies on
> Capitol Hill.
>
> It's one thing to gouge taxpayers. But to claim this
> rip-off is in the national interest, as the White
> House would have us believe, is a slap in the face
> to every working American.
>
> Poll after poll shows that the vast majority of
> voters -- of both parties -- understand that we
> simply must reduce our out-of-control appetite for
> fossil fuels if we ever are to secure energy
> independence. That means turning American rooftops
> into the Persian Gulf of solar energy. It means
> producing cars that get 40 miles per gallon. It
> means constructing efficient buildings that use half
> the energy of the average American office without
> sacrificing comfort.
>
> Making this transformation to a super-efficient,
> low-pollution economy would save consumers upwards
> of a trillion dollars, spare our last wild places
> from destruction, improve our health, slow global
> warming and reduce our dependence on undemocratic
> regimes overseas. It's a no-brainer to anyone living
> outside the White House.
>
> But unless millions of Americans speak out right
> now, the enactment of the president's energy bill
> will doom us to an apocalyptic future of blighted
> wilderness, poisonous air pollution, devastating
> climate change and endless wars over fossil fuels.
>
> Please make your voice heard. Go to
> http://www.savebiogems.org/takeaction.asp and tell
> your senators to obey the will of the American
> people, *not* the dictates of giant energy
> corporations! Call on Congress to create a
> sustainable and affordable energy path.
>
> And please be sure to forward this message to at
> least four other people. Believe me, millions of
> Americans are just waiting for a simple way to stop
> this madness and lend their support to a sane and
> hopeful energy future.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Robert Redford
> Board of Trustees
> Natural Resources Defense Council
>
> . . .
>
> BioGems: Saving Endangered Wild Places
> A project of the Natural Resources Defense Council
> http://www.savebiogems.org
>
>
>

[lastknowngood]

1. we couldn't even

get our senators to vote against the overtime elimination bill what chance do you realistic think we have.

[Dancing_Dave]

2. Just TRY

to activate as Robert Redford suggests, and at least you'll be able to tell the political sucker idiots "I told you so!" :)