GREAT new ad from Al Gore (video) and he...

[YvonneCa]

...needs our help again. :)



Email here:

Friends,

I've been deeply frustrated. I suspect a lot of you have been too.

We're facing such huge challenges and all you hear through the media are demagogic chants like "drill, drill, drill."

Skyrocketing energy prices. The climate crisis. Unraveling financial markets. Wars that just happen to be in places with a lot of oil. These are all just different faces of exactly the same thing. As I've said in the past, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. And every bit of that has to change.

We all know what we have to do. Ask anybody on the street and they'll tell you. We need to "Repower America" -- invest in ourselves, here at home, with clean, economical energy technologies that we know work. And be the global leader as these technologies take off around the world.

And ask anyone, and they'll also tell you why it isn't happening: the oil and coal lobbies -- and the politicians who do their bidding.

It's very simple.

So the Alliance for Climate Protection has put together an ad that tells this simple story. And we're going to put it on national cable TV.

If we can raise an additional $80,000 online, we'll also put it on 60 Minutes and 20/20 this coming week. Wouldn't that be great?

Can you help? Just go here:

http://www.wecansolveit.org/oilandcoal

Here's the script:


The solution to our climate crisis seems simple.
Repower America with wind and solar.
End our dependence on foreign oil. A stronger economy.
So why are we still stuck with dirty and expensive energy?
Because big oil spends hundreds of millions of dollars to block clean energy.
Lobbyists, ads, even scandals.
All to increase their profits, while America suffers.
Breaking big oil's lock on our government ...
Now that's change.
We're the American people and we approve this message.

And you can view the ad on our donation page, here:

http://www.wecansolveit.org/oilandcoal

We're taking on the oil and coal lobbies, because there's simply no other choice. We need your help.

Thanks,

Al Gore

www.wecansolveit.org

[YvonneCa]

1. "...we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf ...

... to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. And every bit of that has to change."

---Former Vice President Al Gore



I just LOVE that line! :patriot:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

2. The House in a Democratic effort just voted to drill. That said,

according to Rep. Louise Slaughter, none of the oil companies want to drill anyway. The equipment isn't even available to do it.

The bill does have safeguards in it. If the oil companies do drill, they get no tax breaks and those oil companies have to put aside money for alternative energy sources and the companies when drilling will have to use American made machinery.

Slaughter said there are millions of acres of land set aside for the oil companies and they don't drill.

[JuniperLea]

3. The oil companies posted record profits...

But they are still waiting for their drilling subisdies... that's what this is really about, imho.

[YvonneCa]

5. It is the power struggle of the century...

...IMHO. Not Democrats versus Republicans. This is a struggle about a future on big oil versus a change to a new long term energy policy.

"The stone age didn't end because of a lack of stones. And the oil age won't end because of a lack of oil." (Kerry quoting someone else. :) )

Sometimes the new idea is just more productive and useful and efficient than the old. GOBAMA! :7

[YvonneCa]

4. I know. Al Gore's right. A lot of us are...

...frustrated. I'm really glad he is building momentum against what the Republicans are trying to do.

[YvonneCa]

6. Kick kick..n/t

[YvonneCa]

7. Please keep kicked...

...please???? :7

[malaise]

8. K & R n/t

[YvonneCa]

10. THANK YOU! n/t

[politicasista]

9. K & R!

:kick:

[YvonneCa]

11. Thank you, too....

...politicasista. I was losing hope...not a good thing for a 'hopemonger' to do. :7