Big Oil and the Senate
By True Majority
Don't let Big Oil rewrite the Energy Bill
Seven votes in the Senate and Big Oil. That's all that's standing in the way of energy legislation that an overwhelming majority of Americans support.Last Friday, the Senate voted 53-42 in favor of the House-passed Energy Bill (H.R. 6) -- seven votes short of the 60 needed to block a Republican filibuster. The bill would raise fuel economy standards, require utilities to generate 15% of their electricity from renewable sources, and restore taxes on Big Oil. Now lobbyists from the oil industry are working with their Republican friends to remove the oil tax package and the renewable electricity mandate.1 Don't let the Senate and the oil industry hold the environment hostage.
Tell the Senate not to cave in to Big Oil on the Energy Bill.
http://act.truemajorityaction.org/energysenate?campaign_KEY=1218
While most of the world is busy meeting in Bali to figure out the next
steps on global warming, special interests are standing in the way of
real progress here at home. Now is not the time to appease the Oil
Industry. We need to start taking serious action to curb global warming
and this bill is a step in the right direction. Write your Senators today and tell them to stand firm on the Energy Bill.
It's time,
Ben Kroetz
TrueMajorityAction.org Online Organizer
1. "The Widening Chasm on Energy," Truthout, December 11, 2007
