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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
"Team Kucinich" wrote to me,
In response, I wrote to my esteemed Congress-person,
Honorable Representative Smith,
I am writing as voting consitituent of yours, and a supporter of your political career, to urge you to act against the Hon. Rep. Richard Pombo's sponsored bill H.R. 5429, which would mandate the exploitation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for fossil fuel production. The amount of fuel that might be extracted from this last pristine wilderness preserve, and the timeliness with which that product might be brought to market do not justify the environmental damage inherent in such an enterprise. I believe the stated purpose of the bill, an "environmentally sound program for the exploration, development, and production of the oil and gas resources of the Coastal Plain of Alaska", is an oxymoron. The historically low price of fossil fuels in the US compared to the rest of the world has created a status quo of over-consumption. Increasing fuel prices are the only means of making that fact apparent to the industries that prey on this situation. The continued support of that unsustainable status quo and its profit-hungry, change-adverse benefactors is not the goal of creation of the ANWR. The current administration has already pried open my so-called "social security lock box" and squandered the assets they were charged with preserving, please don't let that happen to our precious national ecological resources. Thank you.
Once again, some of our elected Representatives are pushing to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge [ANWR].
On May 19th, Rep Pombo, Richard W. [R] introduced H.R.5429, “To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program that will result in an environmentally sound program for the exploration, development, and production of the oil and gas resources of the Coastal Plain of Alaska, and for other purposes.”In response, I wrote to my esteemed Congress-person,
Honorable Representative Smith,
I am writing as voting consitituent of yours, and a supporter of your political career, to urge you to act against the Hon. Rep. Richard Pombo's sponsored bill H.R. 5429, which would mandate the exploitation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for fossil fuel production. The amount of fuel that might be extracted from this last pristine wilderness preserve, and the timeliness with which that product might be brought to market do not justify the environmental damage inherent in such an enterprise. I believe the stated purpose of the bill, an "environmentally sound program for the exploration, development, and production of the oil and gas resources of the Coastal Plain of Alaska", is an oxymoron. The historically low price of fossil fuels in the US compared to the rest of the world has created a status quo of over-consumption. Increasing fuel prices are the only means of making that fact apparent to the industries that prey on this situation. The continued support of that unsustainable status quo and its profit-hungry, change-adverse benefactors is not the goal of creation of the ANWR. The current administration has already pried open my so-called "social security lock box" and squandered the assets they were charged with preserving, please don't let that happen to our precious national ecological resources. Thank you.