End Big Oil's Influence in Washington

Target:

take America's energy policy in a new direction

Sponsored by:

Doris Butler and the National Wildlife Federation

Yesterday news broke that federal employees responsible for regulating the oil and gas industry were receiving gifts, trips, golf outings and even drugs and sexual favors from the very oil companies they were responsible for regulating.

Now some in Congress seem intent on doing their own special favors for the oil industry with a proposal they call "all of the above"--all drilling, everywhere, all the time.

In the coming days, Congress begins voting on a new set of energy bills that if passed will give more rewards to Big Oil at an even greater expense to us all.

Big Oil's scheme would drill the entire U.S. coastline, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and promote so called "liquid coal" causing even more global warming pollution.

Ask Congress to break us free of Big Oil's grip and put America on the path toward a clean and secure energy future.

The clean energy solutions that reduce our dependence on fossil fuels are the same technologies that will also solve global warming, clean the air and help protect America's natural resources for our children's future.

Thanks so much for all you're doing to support clean energy solutions!

Sincerely,

Dominique Burgunder-Johnson
Online Grassroots Coordinator
National Wildlife Federation
alerts@nwf.org

These are the words of Dominique Burgunder-Johnson and I believe we should do anything in our power to support this organization. I thank everyone who gives his/her signature to this petition. Thank you with all my heart.

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# 52:

2:19 pm PST, Mar 7, Mervi Rantala, Finland

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12:46 pm PST, Feb 16, Lynda Harding, United Kingdom

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8:32 pm PST, Feb 9, Juliana Dischke da Silveira, Brazil

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2:58 pm PST, Jan 17, Julia Tawyea', Pennsylvania

# 48:

8:09 pm PST, Jan 7, Gary Turner, Florida
Big oil companies have become too greedy and are only concerned about their own profits while caring nothing about the enviroment or the future of our planet. We need to break the grip of the big oil companies and the influence of their corrupt puppet politicians like George W. Bush and Sarah Palin. These greedy scumbags are only concerned with their own profit and greed and we need to get rid of them.

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10:58 am PST, Jan 2, Ernie McLaney, North Carolina
The old ways of Big Oil can no longer be tolerated. We demand clean, renewable energy as the way of the future. Fossil fuels are dirty and are not sustainable. Clean, renewable energy is the single most important way to create world peace.

This is clearly a case of special interest in maintaining "business as usual" and it must not continue. We cannot solve today's energy needs with yesterday's technology. We have the means to move forward, but due to the greed of big oil, we may be doomed for failure.

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1:46 pm PST, Dec 14, Philip Baze, Tennessee
We need to force USA automakers to commit to Electric self-generating cars if they want a bailout from the US government. Make them commit to electric and eventually forsake fossile fuels entirely!! The American people are fed up with the pollution and breathing fossile fuel.

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6:13 pm PST, Dec 6, Dave Cannon, Pennsylvania

# 44:

10:58 am PST, Nov 17, Julia Hegeman, Wisconsin
Politics and energy should not go together. We should stand up for what it right and clean instead of taking bribes.

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12:21 am PST, Nov 6, Daniela Lazaroiu, Romania

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7:26 am PST, Nov 5, Jason Reinertsen, Illinois

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3:01 pm PDT, Oct 28, Octavian Paul Draja, Romania

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9:31 am PDT, Oct 26, Daniel Webb, Texas

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2:26 am PDT, Oct 26, Timea Melinda Kovacs, Romania

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5:54 pm PDT, Oct 24, Andy Zugay, New Jersey

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11:53 pm PDT, Oct 10, Maria Dzagulones, Michigan

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12:42 am PDT, Oct 5, ELAINE ROBINSON, United Kingdom

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11:09 pm PDT, Sep 27, Can Atik, Turkey

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12:01 am PDT, Sep 22, Kate Singleton, Florida

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11:06 am PDT, Sep 21, Simos Tarabatzis, Greece

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5:28 am PDT, Sep 21, Skylla S, Maryland

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1:52 pm PDT, Sep 20, Thomas Kristan, Canada

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11:27 am PDT, Sep 18, BiLL Fowlie, Maine

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6:48 am PDT, Sep 18, Randolph Ralph, Texas

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3:56 pm PDT, Sep 17, Alice Olivo, Italy

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12:02 pm PDT, Sep 17, Roxie Schliesman, Wisconsin

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6:48 pm PDT, Sep 16, Steve Dale, Australia
DONT VOTE ANYONE INTO TO OFFICE THAT WONT REPRESENT EVERYONE,ALL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS SHOULD BE MADE PUBLIC TO STOP CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT AND BIG BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENTS SHOULD CHARGE OIL COMPANIES THERE PROPER AMOUNT OF TAX,NOT 10% AS IT IS NOW,STOP GIVING TO OIL WHO LINE YOUR POCKETS FOR THIS HELP.

TO DRILL FOR OIL IS TO KILL THE PLANET AND ALL SPECIES ON IT,OIL IS DEATH.

# 25:

12:42 pm PDT, Sep 16, Adria Dobiash, Washington

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12:28 pm PDT, Sep 16, Jane Foster, Oregon
The oil companies already have leases on vast amounts of onshore land. They've gained millions of acres during the Bush administration due to undue influence from the white house on government agencies. Giving them more will not reduce the price at the pump. They aren't drilling what they have now because they're using the excuse of not enough oil to gain obscene profits. We need alternative energy sources not more oil company profits.

No way! What about our struggling fisheries? Has Exxon EVER paid off for the Valdez "incident". Will they?

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12:33 pm PDT, Sep 15, Jennifer Gardner, Florida

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11:19 am PDT, Sep 15, Name not displayed, United States Minor Outlying Islands

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10:21 am PDT, Sep 15, Pam Boland, Georgia

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10:09 am PDT, Sep 15, Erin Wood, Texas

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9:01 am PDT, Sep 15, Nina Samoiloff, Massachusetts

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8:30 am PDT, Sep 15, Freddie Geisler, Florida

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2:14 am PDT, Sep 15, Mia Utzinger, Sweden

# 15:

9:01 pm PDT, Sep 14, Delliana Of the Sea, Colorado
Alternative Energy=More Jobs and a Healthier Planet. Vote Obama Biden!

Stop Raping The Earth Our Earth! Respect Our Life Our Earth is Not Your Whore!

# 14:

8:58 pm PDT, Sep 14, Nicole Borud, North Dakota
STOP DESTROYING OUR PLANET FOR GREED AND PROFIT! Our country needs to be ran by it's people, not the shareholders of big oil and the lobbyists who exploit our world for their personal gain!

Our ecosystems are already on the brink of collapse; let's not further the destruction. We CAN make a positive change, however, it does NOT include oil drilling.

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5:31 pm PDT, Sep 14, Name not displayed, New York

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3:32 pm PDT, Sep 14, Mark Bartholomew, Michigan

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2:38 pm PDT, Sep 14, Anthony Montapert, California

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1:39 pm PDT, Sep 14, Lia Robb, Kansas
The time is now to break the strangle-hold the big oil companies have on us (and our wallets). We need to find other means of energy/fuel, before we do irreparable damage to our world.

The environmental risks involved in drilling the coast-lines, and other pristine ecosystems, FAR out-weigh the potential financial rewards, which would in truth only effect a small percentage of Americans, leaving the rest of us in the same financial bind as before, and a damaged environment on top of that. That is unacceptable!

# 9:

1:27 pm PDT, Sep 14, Jennifer Jorgenson, California
We still depend on oil, however is it not time to break the strangle hold oil has on our society and find alternative means?

Is it in the interest of our society to drill in fragile and pristine ecosystems to satisfy the greed of a few?

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1:56 am PDT, Sep 14, Bill Craig, Germany

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1:21 am PDT, Sep 14, Panagiotis Rigopoulos, Greece
Don't destroy nature,don't destroy earth for profit and money in the United States.

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11:08 pm PDT, Sep 13, Animal Abuse Greece, Greece

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10:49 pm PDT, Sep 13, Necole Cook, Virginia

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9:17 pm PDT, Sep 13, Natalie Bostow, Colorado
No. In twenty years I want to take my children camping and hiking in some of the world most pristine areas. By drilling in these areas it will destroy these places.

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7:23 pm PDT, Sep 13, Ellaine Janicki, Connecticut

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7:20 pm PDT, Sep 13, Name not displayed, California
Funny how they don't mind giving bribes but never want to clean up any of their messes (Alaska, other coastal disasters including Korea had to ask for volunteers and government funds), take care of their development (see the blown pipes in California in the 1980s of Mobile and Chevron in CA because they had not been regulated or checked for 25-40 years).

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