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According to our sources, the leaders in the Senate are negotiating a compromise energy bill. This compromise would sell out clean energy for wind and solar and include huge subsidies for ethanol and nuclear power. In exchange, we would get the promise of modest increases in automobile fuel efficiency standards, if environmentalists in the Senate can get a majority to stand up and hold the line.
This is unacceptable. And given the Senate's track record in the last few weeks, we have little confidence that the leadership will not cave to the Bush administration yet again.
Tell your senators (and we'll send a cc fax to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid) to oppose any compromise bill that:The Senate needs to know that we are watching. Your messages can make a big difference right now. If our representatives in Congress hear from us in large numbers over the next few days, we may be able to convince them to vote against the leadership's back room deal.
- does not include standards or goals for the percentage of our energy portfolio that comes from renewable sources (renewable portfolio standards, or RPS) and does not include a critical tax incentive for producers of wind and solar power.
- provides for practically unlimited loan guarantees for private companies to build new nuclear power plants, with taxpayers on the hook for the risks involved.
- advances the Bush agenda with massive subsidies for corn-based ethanol -- which takes almost as much energy to produce as it yields, and drives up food prices in the process.
- placates oil companies and automakers with a weak fuel efficiency standard when heroic measures are needed to stop global warming.
So take action at right and tell your senators that you want bold leadership on the energy bill. Let them know there will be hell to pay if they cave to the Bush administration and their cronies in the oil and gas lobby. (We'll send a copy of your comments to Majority Leader Reid by fax.)
Other Advocacy Campaigns you can participate in:
- Shut Guantanamo Down
- Stop the Nuclear Bailout
- New Opportunity to Block Funds for Endless Iraq Disaster
- Tell Secretary Rice: Stop Military Aid to Musharraf
- Tell Power Companies to Invest in Clean Power, not Coal
- No Amnesty for Verizon and AT&T
- Tell Your Senators: Don't Cave on the Energy Bill
- Congress: Only YOU Can Authorize War on Iran
- Save the Tongass National Forest
- Repeal the Global Gag Rule
- Tell Congress: Impeach Dick Cheney
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