More crap about your government

[Homicidalheathen]

Hi Windy R,

I wanted to update you on the exciting progress we've made in our campaign to protect Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - and there is good news. But today we're suddenly facing a new assault on the Refuge. Yesterday, the House Resources committee voted on a new energy bill introduced by Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA) to authorize both drilling in the Refuge and opening our coastlines to offshore oil drilling.

This bill will now go to the House floor, and we're going to need all the help we can get to protect the Arctic Refuge from the devastation of oil drilling. Please consider an emergency tax-deductible donation today to help us win this struggle.

Congress is using every legislative vehicle it can to advance its unpopular energy policy initiatives by exploiting the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. But there is no compelling reason to drill in the Arctic Refuge other than oil industry greed. Geologists estimate that only a few months' supply of oil lies beneath the Refuge and it will take ten years before any reaches the market. But in the meantime, the effects of drilling on wildlife, including polar bears, caribou, and wolves, could be deadly.

We urgently need your help today to make this campaign succeed. You've already taken action, you may have given generously, and we are so grateful for all you have done. But we're asking for your help once more this week because this fight is so close - and Big Oil's allies are so determined to use every excuse, including Hurricane Katrina, to open up America's last pristine wilderness to toxic oil drilling.

We're now fighting a two-front war on the Refuge - the Budget Reconciliation Bill, which will be voted on next month, and Rep. Pombo's new energy bill. Last spring, the House passed their version of the budget bill by only three votes, and the Senate by only five. Big Oil, Vice President Dick Cheney, House Majority Leader Tom Delay, and Interior Secretary Gale Norton are pulling out all stops to again prevail.

Our partner, Defenders of Wildlife, has been working tirelessly to flood Congress with phone calls from citizens opposing drilling; run educational ads in Congressional swing states; and organize thousands of activists for last week's successful Arctic Refuge Action Day in coalition with other groups.

Help us stop this assault on Arctic wildlife: please make an emergency tax-deductible donation today to Defenders of Wildlife to protect the Arctic Refuge from toxic oil drilling.

Thank you for all of your hard work to protect our natural heritage,

Rebecca Young,

Care2 and ThePetitionSite team

[Msterbeau]

Disasters seem to be the vehicle of choice of the Bush administration for passing all kinds of bad legislation and questionable policies.

Patriot Act

Iraq War

Dismantling of environmental laws to rebuild New Orleans

Etc...

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

Yeah we must stop bush at all costs... even if gas goes to $10 a gallon!

Just a reminder, bush does not pass anything, Congress does... and congress is not all republican you know.

seriously, drilling is not going to hurt the land as much as a bunch of Starbucks or a landfill will....

[Homicidalheathen]

I really think they wont release a clean and affordable car until they are done raping the land for all its worth.

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

I really think they wont release a clean and affordable car until they are done raping the land for all its worth.

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..... there is the problem... Clean and affordable dont mix on anything... ever....

[phee]

..... there is the problem... Clean and affordable dont mix on anything... ever....

Tiz very true

[Homicidalheathen]

My freind invented some corn fuel thing in college. Coarse the bong he made me fell apart after a year. Ha.

[Msterbeau]

Yeah we must stop bush at all costs... even if gas goes to $10 a gallon!

Just a reminder, bush does not pass anything, Congress does... and congress is not all republican you know.

seriously, drilling is not going to hurt the land as much as a bunch of Starbucks or a landfill will....

A fair point. But the Bush administration tends to be the one taking advantage of things and then pressuring congress to pass it. With the Republicans in the majority of both houses, guess what happens?

[Msterbeau]

..... there is the problem... Clean and affordable dont mix on anything... ever....

That's not really true. Technology has almost always become a lot cheaper as it's developed and adopted by the masses. Clean and affordable isn't even an issue anymore on cars. A lot of them spew less emmissions then what exists in the surrounding air. (In cities anyways..) The problem is one of finding something that will produce power as efficiently and as conveniently as an internal combustion engine.

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

A fair point.  But the Bush administration tends to be the one taking advantage of things and then pressuring congress to pass it.  With the Republicans in the majority of both houses, guess what happens?

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Pressure how? Democrats cross the voting lines all the time.... if they stood up for themselves more and held press confrences to explain why they are not voting for "some evil thing" then I might have more respect for them. As it stands All elected Officials are evil pigs at the trough.... I would not piss in their general direction to save their lives. In fact if they were burning on the ground in front of me I would not piss on their burning bodies for fear that I might some how lessen their pain.... but i digress, let me tell you how I really feel about them.... :confused

[Msterbeau]

Pressure how?  Democrats cross the voting lines all the time.... if they stood up for themselves more and held press confrences to explain why they are not voting for "some evil thing" then I might have more respect for them.  As it stands All elected Officials are evil pigs at the trough.... I would not piss in their general direction to save their lives.  In fact if they were burning on the ground in front of me I would not piss on their burning bodies for fear that I might some how lessen their pain.... but i digress, let me tell you how I really feel about them....  :confused

Please do. I have at least another ten minutes to kill. =)

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

LOL <smile> it takes a political science degree to truely hate politicians..

and thanks to having too many political economy classes, i hate marxists and lassez Fair free marketists too.....

[Msterbeau]

LOL <smile> it takes a political science degree to truely hate politicians..

and thanks to having too many political economy classes, i hate marxists and lassez Fair free marketists too.....

I hear ya... but it's too important to give up on. When is someone going to offer the right conditions for honest people to step up? Better yet.... to step up, make a difference and not get corrupt in the process... Dat's what I wanna know.

I'm just a simple artist. I don't know shit... :whistling

[The_Dark]

it was atually the Clinton Administration that first started pushing to drill in ANWR.