[R-G] FCNL: Act Now /: Safe, Secure, Sustainable Energy Future / Grandchildren

[james m nordlund]

FCNL: Act Now for a Safe, Secure, Sustainable Energy Future for Our
Grandchildren
Next week (June 13), the Senate is expected to begin floor debate on the
Energy Policy Act of 2005. Act now to make the Senate bill better than the
harmful bill passed by the House in April. The Senate can do much more to
reduce our country’s dangerous, unhealthy dependence on oil and greenhouse
gas emissions. It must do much more to promote conservation, improved
energy efficiency, and renewable fuels. 

Our country cannot continue to drill, pump, mine, radiate, and burn its
way through another century. This is a prescription for disaster for our
grandchildren. Instead, now is the time for Congress to set a new course
toward a more secure, safe, and sustainable energy future. 

Take Action Now

Please urge your senators to support strong provisions and amendments to
the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that dramatically reduce U.S. oil dependence
and greenhouse gas emissions as they consider the energy policy act of
2005. Urge them to reduce demand for fossil fuels and nuclear energy by
enacting policies that promote conservation, improved energy efficiency,
and renewable energy sources.

FCNL makes it easy to contact your members of Congress. Go to
http://capwiz.com/fconl/issues/alert/?alertid=7702626&type=CO to see a
sample letter. Then write an email or fax in your own words. 

FCNL letter to the Senate 

http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=1377&issue_id=24

FCNL letter to the House 

http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=1328&issue_id=24

Background

Our oil dependence has fueled increasingly deadly conflicts in the Persian
Gulf region for decades. It enriches authoritarian regimes and violent
extremists, and, in oil-rich developing countries, it often leads to
corruption and stymies economic development. Rising demand for imported
oil accounts for more than a quarter of the runaway U.S. trade deficit
($160 billion plus). Our search for new domestic sources of oil threatens
to permanently damage fragile ecosystems, jeopardizing their immense, but
uncounted, life-sustaining ecological services. Burning oil fouls our air,
harms public health, and contributes greatly to increasing concentrations
of greenhouse gases (e.g. carbon dioxide (CO2)) in our atmosphere. 

The answer to our rising dependence on oil imports is not to subsidize the
domestic oil industry, roll back environmental protections, or open more
public lands, coastal areas, and fragile ecosystems to oil exploration and
production. These are the dangerous, harmful, and short-sighted policies
of the past. Rather, Congress must make a different choice. Our country
does not have to remain dependent on oil. Feasible, safe, affordable
technologies and renewable fuels exist that can dramatically reduce our
oil dependence now. But Congress must first create a new policy framework
to accelerate transition to these new technologies and fuels. 

Read more from FCNL,
http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=1413&issue_id=24

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We seek a community where every person's potential may be fulfilled
We seek an earth restored. 


		
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