Fw: Act Now for a Safe, Secure, Sustainable Energy Future for Our Grandchildren

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From: "Kathy Guthrie" <kathyguthrie@fcnl.org>
To: "Miriam Vieni" <miriamvieni@optonline.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 3:51 PM
Subject: FCNL: Act Now for a Safe, Secure, Sustainable Energy Future for Our
Grandchildren

Next week (June 13), the Senate is expected to begin floor debate on
the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Act now to make the Senate bill better
than the harmful bill passed by the House in April. The Senate can do
much more to reduce our country's dangerous, unhealthy dependence on
oil and greenhouse gas emissions. It must do much more to promote
conservation, improved energy efficiency, and renewable fuels.

Our country cannot continue to drill, pump, mine, radiate, and burn its
way through another century. This is a prescription for disaster for
our grandchildren. Instead, now is the time for Congress to set a new
course toward a more secure, safe, and sustainable energy future.

TAKE ACTION NOW

Please urge your senators to support strong provisions and amendments
to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that dramatically reduce U.S. oil
dependence and greenhouse gas emissions as they consider the energy
policy act of 2005. Urge them to reduce demand for fossil fuels and
nuclear energy by enacting policies that promote conservation, improved
energy efficiency, and renewable energy sources.

FCNL makes it easy to contact your members of Congress. Go to
http://capwiz.com/fconl/utr/1/OPNKETLRNZ/JNYNETLROD/ to see a sample
letter. Then write an email or fax in your own words.

FCNL letter to the Senate

http://capwiz.com/fconl/utr/1/OPNKETLRNZ/KNDAETLROE/

FCNL letter to the House

http://capwiz.com/fconl/utr/1/OPNKETLRNZ/AHXBETLROF/

BACKGROUND

Our oil dependence has fueled increasingly deadly conflicts in the
Persian Gulf region for decades. It enriches authoritarian regimes and
violent extremists, and, in oil-rich developing countries, it often
leads to corruption and stymies economic development. Rising demand for
imported oil accounts for more than a quarter of the runaway U.S. trade
deficit ($160 billion plus). Our search for new domestic sources of oil
threatens to permanently damage fragile ecosystems, jeopardizing their
immense, but uncounted, life-sustaining ecological services. Burning
oil fouls our air, harms public health, and contributes greatly to
increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (e.g. carbon dioxide
(CO2)) in our atmosphere.

The answer to our rising dependence on oil imports is not to subsidize
the domestic oil industry, roll back environmental protections, or open
more public lands, coastal areas, and fragile ecosystems to oil
exploration and production. These are the dangerous, harmful, and
short-sighted policies of the past. Rather, Congress must make a
different choice. Our country does not have to remain dependent on oil.
Feasible, safe, affordable technologies and renewable fuels exist that
can dramatically reduce our oil dependence now. But Congress must first
create a new policy framework to accelerate transition to these new
technologies and fuels.

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