Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Time to Fight to Protect Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Mikaela says:
Another war for ANWR brewing in the House and Senate this week. Time to dust off your letters and speaking points and contact your representatives and senators.

Here's what I sent to Srs. Domenici & Bingaman and Sra. Wilson:

Please protect our nation's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Your vote can go down in history as helping to resist the short-sided, selfish, and false efforts to drill in an irreplaceable wildlife preserve for questionable gain. We will destroy millions of acres of pristine wildlife ecosystems to extract an unsustainable resource that we should be pressuring our industries and oil companies to give up. For what? For a few years' gain?

Support instead research of renewable energies. Put pressure on oil companies to do what they are already capable of doing: providing alternative fuels for our industries, our automobiles, and our energy needs. This is not the time to lie again tot the American people about what we need.

What we need is freedom from ALL oil, not just foreign oil. We need to be free of pollution from greenhouse gases that worsen storms like Katrina and Rita that killed so many people and changed the lives of millions -- perhaps forever.

Take the long view and be thanked by the American people and especially New Mexicans, who even now are being poisoned by oil and gas exploration and extraction in your own state.

Your vote this week will decide the fate of the Refuge. It's no time to be sitting on the sidelines. Please help support the voice of reason and the voice of valuing our natural, irreplaceable resources.

Please vote to protect ANWR from greed and short-sightedness.