Off Shore Oil

A MESSAGE FROM THE SIERRA CLUB:

Americans are fed up with runaway gas prices and bloated oil-company profits, but Senator John McCain and President Bush’s proposal¹ to drill for oil along our coastline will only increase Big Oil’s bottom line. Their move to open up our coasts for Big Oil is making headlines all across the country today — I woke up to commentators on NPR talking about coastal oil drilling.

The truth is that offshore oil drilling won’t help with high oil prices² or ease the pain at the gas pump for American families.

We’re launching a petition with our friends at MoveOn.org urging Congress to reject the  plan to help Big Oil drill along our coastline. Will you add your name to our petition telling Congress to stop Big Oil’s drilling plan? Click here:

http://action.sierraclub.org/offshoreoil  

Any oil found along our coasts wouldn’t be available until 2030.² By then it would only add to the oil industry’s tens of billions of dollars in record profits — at the cost of our nation’s pristine beaches and wild places. As my grandfather would say, “Their proposal to drill our coasts makes about as much sense as throwing buckets of gasoline on a burning building.”

The call for oil drilling from Senator McCain and President Bush this week is another Washington gimmick — and this time at our expense.

Please add your name to the petition that we’ll deliver to Congress next week as they consider the FY2009 Interior and the Environment Appropriations bill to protect our coastline.

Thank you for protecting the planet,

Greg Haegele
Director of Conservation

¹ New York Times 6/19/08  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/washington/19drill.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

² Department of Energy, 2007 http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/otheranalysis/ongr.html

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