Throw Big Oil off the fiscal cliff 5DEZ12

BIG oil did their best to buy this election, they threw away millions of dollars trying to buy a government that would protect their corporate welfare. They lost. NOW is the time, with the fiscal cliff looming, to demand our government eliminate the federal tax subsidies exxon, chevron, mobil, conoco, texaco and all the other dirty energy companies. They do not deserve the federal tax subsidies and tax breaks, and we can not afford to continue them. NOW is the time to end corporate welfare for the big oil companies. Click the link to send this message to your members of Congress.

Tell your members of Congress to throw Big Oil off the fiscal cliff and protect investments in conservation, clean energy, and public health! Tell your members of Congress to end Big Oil handouts, not environmental protections! We've got an idea for Congress: How about instead of cutting investments that support our families, protect our health, and preserve our environment, we finally get rid of those handouts that give oil companies billions of our taxpayer dollars every year to keep polluting our air and waterways? It seems like the most obvious plan, but right now Big Oil's congressional allies are pushing hard to do just the opposite as Congress looks for a way to deal with the so-called "fiscal cliff." Big Oil's allies in Congress want to protect special tax breaks for dirty energy companies while cutting investments in conservation, clean energy, and public health.  That makes no sense. But unless Congress hears from us now, they might just have their way. Email your members of Congress today: Tell them to throw Big Oil off the fiscal cliff, not the environmental programs that we all depend on! Big Oil has already recorded over $90 billion in profits so far in 2012. Yet the oil industry continues to receive $4 billion in taxpayer subsidies every year.  It is unacceptable that Big Oil's congressional cronies would have us fork over our tax dollars to these corporate polluters, while being forced to cut programs that protect our health and our environment. But even though environmental programs only make up 1.25% of the national budget, some members of Congress think we can somehow balance the budget by further decimating these critical programs. They would:     – Eliminate tax credits that have helped the wind industry grow,     – Starve our National Parks of funding,     – Cut programs for clean energy research and innovation,     – Undermine efforts to clean up contaminated waterways, and     – End programs that support more than 130 National Wildlife Refuges. We can't afford to lose these programs that keep our water clean, protect the places and wildlife we love, and build the infrastructure we need to curb global warming. So we need to make sure that Congress hears loud and clear that their constituents will not allow our health and our future to be traded away — especially not while they keep doling out billions to dirty energy companies. Send a message to your members of Congress right now urging them to put an end to Big Oil handouts, not our environmental protection programs. If we ended the handouts that we currently give to oil and gas companies, it would save more than $40 billion over the next 10 years. Given the furor over cutting wasteful spending, this should be a no-brainer. But Congress won't do it without hearing from you today. So we hope you'll join us in asking your member of Congress to stop subsidizing an industry that harms our health, and invest instead in clean energy jobs that will that strengthen our environment, our economy, and our energy independence. Thanks, Gene Karpinski President League of Conservation Voters

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