Last month, while we experienced pain at the gas pump, Exxon Mobil reported profits of more than $10 billion for the previous quarter. But instead of removing excessive subsidies for already profitable oil companies and investing in real energy reform, key members of Congress are pushing legislation supported by dirty energy companies that would do very little to protect us from gas price spikes.
It's time for reforms that would lower the cost of energy, not give more handouts to corporate special interests and their lobbyists.
Click here to urge your members of Congress to oppose subsidies for special interests and the weakening of drilling safeguards.
We need to think beyond oil because the oil companies will continue to charge us whatever they can get away with. We should focus on investing in fuel-efficient cars, providing Americans with better transportations options, and developing clean, affordable, renewable energy that won't run out.
Every year we hear the same industry talking points by the same people who benefit from our dependence on oil. Proposed legislation (such as H.R. 1229, H.R. 1230 and H.R. 1231) would actually weaken existing laws that control offshore oil drilling.
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Polling has shown that the public prefers leaders who support clean energy, not more drilling.
2 Our elected officials need to start making real choices that will reduce our pain at the pump. We must not allow them to continue echoing special interest talking points and pushing false solutions.
Click here to urge your members of Congress to support real reforms that will bring true energy security.
Thanks for everything you do,
Peter Lehner
Executive Director
NRDC Action Fund
References:
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Casting Oil Upon the Waters: The House Drilling Bills
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Voters Prefer Candidates Who Support Clean Energy, Not More Drilling, Poll Finds
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Oil and gas lobbying
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