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

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Legislative Action Message

 

 

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/issues/alert/?alertid=7702626 & type=CO to see a sample

letter. Then write an email or fax in your own words.

 

FCNL letter to the Senate

 

http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=1377 & issue_id=24

 

FCNL letter to the House

 

http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=1328 & issue_id=24

 

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.

 

Read more from FCNL,

http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=1413 & issue_id=24

 

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