Action Alert: Energy Bill vote this week
House to vote on Energy Bill this week
Tell your Representative to be a leader
Tell your Representative to support the Energy Bill.
The House will soon have the chance to take the lead on global warming.
That's because a final vote on the Energy Bill is expected this week in the House.1 The bill will save money for consumers at the pump by requiring cars to go farther on a gallon of gas and will require utility companies to use renewable energy as the source of 15% of their electricity production.2 It's a definite step in the right direction.
Tell your Representative to be a leader and support the Energy Bill.
http://act.truemajorityaction.org/t/50/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1215
We know that the window for action is closing quickly. This bill would move us forward by providing real standards that would help reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. Write to Congress today and let your Representative know that you expect support for the Energy Bill.
Before the world melts,
Ben Kroetz
TrueMajorityAction.org Online Organizer
1. "Dems Reach Deal on Energy Bill," Associated Press, December 1, 2007
2. "Deal Reached On Fuel Economy," Washington Post, December 1, 2007
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kyoto treaty
On a somewhat related note, I heard that Australia signed onto the Kyoto treaty leaving the US as the only industrialized nation not to do so. They are also working on recommendations for a new treaty with even tighter restrictions for when the kyoto treaty expires. If our industries have not been made to follow standards even as strict as the kyoto, and then we abruptly try to make them conform to even more stringent guidelines for emissions, I think that conservative worries about harm to industry may become valid. I think that there is some validity to the worry that drastic change, like harsh and sudden restrictions on greenhouse emissions, can impair businesses, but if it is implemented industry-wide and introduced incrementally, they will adapt in the same way that they adapt to any cultural change. We need to get on board with the rest of the world before we start facing economic sanctions that force our hand to make radical reductions that squeeze industries beyond sustainability.
david