If you've got time to do one super important thing this weekend, please take time to write your senators regarding the budget bill they will be debating this week. As usual, the Republicans are selling our souls to Big Oil, Big Corporations, and Big Greed. Into the budget bill they're sneaking a rider to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) because it can't stand on its own merit in an energy bill.
I really fear that drilling into that pristine place, one of the last few on the planet, might go through this time. Please contact your Senator early this week! They say it's only 2,000 acres, that it won't be that intrusive, but once that land is defiled by human pollution and contact, it will NEVER be the same again.
Oil development there will take about ten years before they actually get usable petroleum and only a tiny percentage of what we use is available, so contrary to what they say it will not reduce our dependence on foreign oil or help assuage our War for Oil mentality. Instead, urge your Senators to protect our pristine places because it belongs to all of us and our future generations. Recommend that they instead support energy conservation--these technologies are effective, clean, and available right now (not ten years in the future). Energy conservation will also last forever, unlike the oil that will run out.
You can find information on reaching your senator here: http://sierraclub.org/
More information and a petition are here: http://sierraclub.org/
Feel free to use any of the information I've listed above. Also, if you would like a copy of the letter I wrote, to forward to your senator (word for word, meaning minimal work) please email me! Thank you!
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