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		Help Change the Government’s Five Year Drilling Plan Now! Dear Doug, During the last few weeks the political support for greater domestic energy exploration has increased dramatically. More than two-thirds of Americans support producing more of our own energy supplies. The open question is whether Congress and the bureaucracy will react to the outcry of the people to do just that. Every five years, the Minerals Management Service (MMS), the government agency responsible for oil and gas leasing in the U.S. offshore, develops a Five-Year Plan. That plan determines where and how often oil and gas lease sales will occur over the next five year period. The current plan runs through 2012, but given the high energy costs and the need to do something to expand our domestic supplies, the MMS is considering a new program from 2010 to 2015 to succeed the current plan. MMS designs the plan based on the input from the public. The MMS is now accepting comments on the proposed plan through September 15th . Please take this opportunity to make your voice heard in this important debate.  TAKE ACTION! The MMS estimates that there are 18 billion recoverable barrels of oil and 55 trillion cubic feet of natural gas on our outer continental shelf. The only thing stopping greater exploration of these areas for domestic energy is politics. As Congressman Jeb Hensarling noted, On October 1st, the bans on offshore drilling and oil shale recovery will end, enabling us to finally be able to develop more American energy – unless liberals actively prohibit exploration. Let Washington know you support reasonable access to America’s onshore and offshore energy resources. Support the American Energy Freedom Day on October 1st!  TAKE ACTION! America needs to develop its domestic energy supplies. Responsible exploration and development of all our nation’s oil and gas resources can be done safely and without significant harm to the environment. Please join us in this ongoing effort to move Congress toward real solutions to our energy needs. Sincerely, Dick Armey Chairman FreedomWorks.org Note: we are using a new email system to send this message. As a result, you may be receiving an email from Dick Armey for the first time in many months or even years. We take your email preferences very seriously and if you do not wish to receive our weekly email, we will immediately unsubscribe you from the list by clicking the link below. If you have any questions please email Tom at tkeeley@freedomworks.org, and thanks for your understanding

The New Toyota

Also saves on the processing of corn for ethanol.

SAVE GAS WITH TOYOTA ‘S NEW ‘HIGH-BRED’ TRUCK

Everything you ever wanted to know about the GOP Energy Revolt

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$10 $20 do I hear $30

This is what Obama supporters want. Do they have any clue on what this will do to the economy or your retirement plan. This is truly scary!!!!!

The Truth Exposed: MoveOn Supporters Want $10, $20, $30 Gas!

It’s Not Cool Being Green in the UK

Looks like the Brits have jilted AlGore. 

What would Kermit think of this article today in the Times of London?

Suddenly being green is not cool any more

As the credit crunch bites, environmental policies are being ditched. But oddly we are doing better at saving the planet

Alice Thomson

Julie Burchill can’t stand them. According to her new book, Not in my Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, she thinks all environmentalists are po-faced, unsexy, public school alumni who drivel on about the end of the world because they don’t want the working classes to have any fun, go on foreign holidays or buy cheap clothes.

Michael O’Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair, agrees. In an interview with Rachel Sylvester and me, he told us that the “nutbag ecologists” are the overindulged rich who have nothing better to do with their lives than talk about hot air and beans.

So the salad days are over; it’s the end of the greens. Where only a year ago the smart new eco-warriors were revered, wormeries and unbleached cashmere jeans are now seen as a middle-class indulgence.

But the problem for the green lobby isn’t that it has been overrun by “toffs”: it’s the chilly economic climate that has frozen the shoots of environmentalism. Espousing the green life, with its misshapen vegetables and non-disposable nappies, is increasingly being seen as a luxury by everyone.

Only a year ago, according to MORI, 15 per cent of those polled put the environment in their top three concerns. That figure has dropped by a third to 10 per cent this month. Now that people are fighting for their own survival rather than their grandchildren’s, they put crime, the economy and rising prices at the top of their list.

According to Andrew Cooper, director of the research company, Populus: “There is a direct correlation between how people perceive the economy and the importance they place on the environment. When times are tough people resent paying more to salve their conscience.” This means that fewer people are now buying organic chickens from smart supermarkets when they can pay £3.99 at Lidl. With all food prices rising, the organic market is being credit-crunched. Demand for it grew by 70 per cent from 2002 to 2007; now it has stalled, according to the consultancy Organic Monitor.

The vast new organic Whole Foods Store on Kensington High Street in London is so quiet you can hear the cheese breathe in the specially designed glass room. Meanwhile the demand for takeaway pizzas and McDonald’s has risen as people find the cheapest way to eat.

When David Cameron became leader of the Conservative Party he said that green issues were at the top of his agenda. His slogan for the local elections last year was “Vote Blue, Go Green”. But in the past few months he has realised that voters have lost the appetite for their greens.

He has only given one environmental speech since Christmas. Once he used to talk about putting a £3,000 windmill on top of his house. Now the message is not about conserving the planet but preserving his bank balance. He wears catalogue clothes, grows his own vegetables and holidays barefoot in Britain because it is less extravagant, not because he is trying to reduce his global footprint.

In fact, when the Tory leader’s bicycle was stolen a week ago, the message of the story was not how green he was for riding his bike, but how broken our society has become when a politician finds his bike nicked from under his nose.

Boris Johnson was the first to realise that the tolerance for green taxes may have peaked. When he became Mayor of London, he dropped plans to charge a £25 congestion fee on gas-guzzling cars.

The Tories have quietly been reviewing many of their green policies. A range of measures designed to penalise motoring and other polluting activities has been put on hold in case they alienate families struggling to pay their bills. A proposal to tax the highest emitting cars up to £500 more than the greenest vehicles has been quietly shelved, as has the plan to raise taxes on short-haul flights. Instead George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor, has promised to cut tax on fuel when oil prices rise.

Gordon Brown has also stopped discussing his solar panels and compost heap in Scotland and is trying to dissociate himself from local council rubbish taxes – even though they have been driven by central government plans to put up landfill charges.

Both parties are looking at ways of rewarding people for being green rather than penalising them for throwing out their yoghurt pots with their teabags. Mr Osborne, in a speech last month, admitted: “When people are feeling the pinch, we need to make it pay to go green. Instead of being fined for not recycling, households should be paid for recycling.”

When Barack Obama first decided to run for the presidency, he embraced the green cause. Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, about global warming had just become the biggest grossing documentary in history and Mr Gore had won the Nobel prize. But recently Mr Obama has been talking more about thrift than trees. Instead of showing off his recycling skills, he explains that his children don’t receive Christmas or birthday presents.

It’s not just the economic downturn that has harmed the green order. People have become wary of environmental causes that can turn out to do more harm than good. They don’t want wind turbines marching across Britain’s moors when nuclear power stations can do more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They worry that washing and bleaching all those non-disposable nappies may be damaging the ozone layer, that the massive incentives for biofuels have distorted the world food market, and that green taxes are actually stealth taxes.

But paradoxically, just as Britain is turning its back on the environment, the country is finally becoming greener. Fewer people are moving house so they are buying fewer new white goods such as washing machines and fridges. They may not be queueing up for £9 organic Poilâne bread, but for the first time in a decade they are discarding less food. They buy less impulsively and think more carefully before their weekly shop. Children are wearing hand-me-down uniforms rather than new ones made in sweatshops.

Bottled water sales have fallen. Garden centres have reported a 10 per cent rise in the sales of vegetable seeds in the past 12 months. People are saving money by growing their own potatoes and carrots. They are turning off their central heating for a few more months of the year and ditching their second car rather than buying an electric runaround. And instead of carbon-offsetting their holidays, they are simply going on fewer of them.

It’s the downturn that has made greenery look unappetising – but it may yet prove to do more than anything to save the planet.

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Source:  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article4474202.ece

Julia

McCain Calls On Congress

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From Media Lizzy via Facebook

Get ready to turn the heat up.

1. If you are on Twitter, make sure you
utilize #dontgo

2. Sign the Petition: http://callbackcongress.com/

3. Join the movement at: http://dontgomovement.com

The MSM is sure to cover the
MoveOn.org challenge – and we have to maintain focus, support our House GOP, and
remember: you don’t need some insider’s permission to call Speaker Pelosi – and
ask her to call Congress Back. Like Congressman Cantor said on my show, what’s
Speaker Pelosi afraid of?

Speaker Pelosi’s number: 202.225.0100

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/moveon-plans-to-push-back-hard-against-house-gop-2008-08-04.html

MoveOn plans to ‘push
back hard’ against House GOP
By Klaus Marre
Posted: 08/04/08 10:48 PM
[ET]

Liberal group MoveOn.org is urging its supporters to “push back
hard” against House Republicans who have been seeking to pressure Speaker Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.) to allow a vote on offshore drilling.

Although the
House is in recess, several Republicans on Friday and Monday have taken to the
floor of the chamber to discuss the country’s energy woes and demand that Pelosi
bring back the House and give the GOP an up or down vote on expanding domestic
oil production.

Now MoveOn is planning to get
involved.

“Republicans have been escalating their attacks on [Democratic
presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.)] and the Democrats over oil
drilling, and we need to push back hard,” the group said in an e-mail to
supporters, asking them to come to a 4 p.m. rally at the
Capitol.

“Speaker Pelosi blocked their plan because it won’t help lower
gas prices—but it will line the pockets of Big Oil executives, the same people
donating millions of dollars to Republicans,” the e-mail said. “But Republicans
are working hard to make it seem like they’re fighting for cash-strapped
commuters—and not the oil companies who wrote their plan.”

The group
plans to point to the ties between the GOP and Big Oil.

“We’ve invited
the media, and having a good crowd is critical to show them that voters don’t
want oil industry gimmicks—they want real solutions like alternative energy to
solve our energy crisis,” the e-mail said.

MoveOn acknowledged that
“Republicans have been dominating the debate around gas prices for weeks with
their sham drilling plan,” adding that the House protest is “getting a lot of
press coverage.”

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Republicans Protest Democrat’s Great Escape on Energy

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Republicans Protest Democrat’s Great Escape on Energy

The Boston Tweet Party continues

The Boston Tweet Party or the Republican Revolt, whatever you want to call it is going to keep on going. But there will be no cameras allowed in the Capitol Building. So the use of twitter and other “Main Street Media” outlets to get the skinny. They are also live blogging at the Republican Leader’s blog.

House Republicans to Resume
Floor Protest on American Energy Monday

Washington, Aug 3 – House
Republicans will be back on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives again
Monday to continue the unprecedented protest that began last Friday, when dozens
of Republicans joined hundreds of American citizens on the House floor to
protest Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) decision to send Congress home for the
rest of the summer without a vote on legislation to lower gas prices and move
America toward energy independence.

In an urgent
memo sent to GOP Members and staff Saturday (“A Call to Action on American
Energy”), Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) hailed
Friday’s action, which was led by Reps. Mike Pence (R-IN), Lynn Westmoreland
(R-GA), Tom Price (R-GA), and others, and encouraged House Republicans to return
to the Capitol beginning Monday morning to help keep the historic effort
going.

“It’s not a request we make lightly. But the
American people are suffering,” Boehner and Blunt said in the memo. “The
consequences of continued congressional inaction on gas prices are
unacceptable. We’ve called on the Speaker to call Congress back into an
emergency session this month and schedule a vote on the American Energy Act. We
must continue to make a stand until the Speaker complies.”

“We realize not everyone can be in Washington
next week. But if you can be, we ask that you come to the Capitol, join our
colleagues, and lend your voice, beginning this Monday at 10:00 am,” the GOP
leaders wrote. “If you can’t be in Washington, we ask that you contribute to
the cause in other ways – such as spreading the word among your constituents,
writing an op-ed for your local newspaper, or taking our ‘all of the above’
energy message to your local airwaves.”

“Republicans stand with the American people. We
share their passion and determination for energy independence, and we’ve pledged
to fight boldly until Congress heeds their will,” Boehner and Blunt
concluded.

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