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Boycott ExxonMobil

Target: ExxonMobil Executives
Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife
ExxonMobil is spearheading efforts to open America's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. It is sabotaging efforts to slow global warming and refusing to put its huge profits to good use developing clean, renewable energy or supporting fuel efficiency. The company is still trying to get out of paying the full amount it owes fishermen and Native Americans hurt by the 1989 Valdez spill, which killed hundreds of thousands of seals, otters, birds, fish and whales -- despite raking in a historic $25 billion profit in 2005.

It's time to hold ExxonMobil responsible for putting corporate profits over protection of wildlife and wildlife habitat. Join Defenders of Wildlife and other leading conservation groups in boycotting ExxonMobil. Sign our petition to let ExxonMobil know that you WILL NOT BUY ExxonMobil gasoline unless -- and until -- ExxonMobil takes meaningful action to curb global warming, to invest in renewable energy, and to pay for the damages done by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
deadline: 12-30-2007
goal: 25,000
 

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Dear ExxonMobil executives,

I am disturbed and frustrated by ExxonMobil's insistence on putting corporate profits before protection of wildlife and wildlife habitat. Our country remains overly dependent on oil, and the dangers of global warming threaten current and future generations of people and wildlife. This addiction to oil represents a failed energy strategy, one that your company not only supports but has helped to develop.

I am most disturbed by:

*ExxonMobil's active support of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge;

* ExxonMobil's efforts to block meaningful action to cut global warming pollution and its funding of junk science to hide the real facts about global warming;

* ExxonMobil's conscious decision to forgo investment in clean energy solutions - despite your record profits at a time of rising gasoline prices;

* ExxonMobil's failure to pay all of the punitive damages awarded to fishermen and others injured by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

ExxonMobil represents yesterday's energy policy; I would rather spend my money and time moving forward, not backward. Therefore, I am pledging to boycott ExxonMobil until ExxonMobil takes meaningful action to curb global warming, to invest in renewable energy, and to pay for the damages done by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

Sincerely,

[Your name]
[Your address]
We signed the “Boycott ExxonMobil” petition!
# 35,050:
7:47 pm PST, Dec 9, Samantha O'Kelley, North Carolina
# 35,049:
3:53 pm PST, Dec 8, Name not displayed, North Carolina
This boycott can work, Not only can we save our wildlife, But if enough people boycott perhaps we can get them to lower gas prices as well.
# 35,048:
12:21 pm PST, Dec 8, Andrew Legendre, New Hampshire
# 35,047:
11:24 am PST, Dec 8, Cara A, Alaska
# 35,046:
6:12 am PST, Dec 8, Katrina Cheek, Virginia
# 35,045:
4:32 am PST, Dec 8, Kerri Zimmerman, Canada
# 35,044:
1:24 am PST, Dec 8, Mercedes Winters, Texas
# 35,043:
9:12 pm PST, Dec 7, Jonathon Aragon, California
# 35,042:
8:42 pm PST, Dec 7, Brittney Dyer, Indiana
# 35,041:
12:31 pm PST, Dec 7, Name not displayed, Oregon
Dear Executives, I no longer purchase ExxonMobil gasoline and will not in the future unless plans to push for an opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for exploration/drilling are abandoned. Climate change is upon us and, rather than continuing to search for new sources for oil, we should be using our resources to identify and develop alternative energy sources. Please consider using the finances you plan to put towards this effort to instead work for developing alternative sources of energy.
# 35,040:
12:31 pm PST, Dec 7, Tami Ghafouri, New Mexico
# 35,039:
12:30 pm PST, Dec 7, Donna Parton, Alabama
# 35,038:
12:26 pm PST, Dec 7, James Horen, North Carolina
# 35,037:
12:23 pm PST, Dec 7, Charla Parton, North Carolina
I nor anyone in my family have purchased your products since the Valdez. I have made so many people aware of your greed and hypocrisy that your efforts now will only help to inspire others to continue boycotting your products. Shame on you!!!!!!!!
# 35,036:
12:04 pm PST, Dec 7, Kimberly Knutsen, Oregon
# 35,035:
12:02 pm PST, Dec 7, Lucas MacDonald, California
# 35,034:
11:51 am PST, Dec 7, Rebekah Williams, California
# 35,033:
11:48 am PST, Dec 7, Nicole Perez, Maryland
# 35,032:
11:43 am PST, Dec 7, Adam Stivers, Michigan
# 35,031:
11:26 am PST, Dec 7, Ricardo Lopez-Merced, Maryland
You should promote the use of alternative energy sources instead of looking to destroy the habitat of the polar bears. I will not buy your gas or any ExxonMobil products from now on unless you desist on destroying our animals!!
# 35,030:
11:25 am PST, Dec 7, Elizabeth McLevain, Tennessee
# 35,029:
11:25 am PST, Dec 7, Dustin Carter, Florida
# 35,028:
11:22 am PST, Dec 7, Christy Charbeneau, Michigan
# 35,027:
11:21 am PST, Dec 7, Name not displayed, California
# 35,026:
11:21 am PST, Dec 7, Josh Breault, California
# 35,025:
11:15 am PST, Dec 7, Paulanna Beaver, Pennsylvania
# 35,024:
11:13 am PST, Dec 7, Name not displayed, California
# 35,023:
11:09 am PST, Dec 7, James Contner, California
# 35,022:
11:06 am PST, Dec 7, Name not displayed, Illinois
# 35,021:
11:06 am PST, Dec 7, Heather Hendricks, Mississippi
Leave the wild to the wildlife.
# 35,020:
10:58 am PST, Dec 7, Jeff Vanderpoel, California
# 35,019:
10:49 am PST, Dec 7, Jesse Anderson, California
We have alterior energy sources. Let's start implimenting them now and preserve the small habitat that these animals still have.
# 35,018:
10:41 am PST, Dec 7, Samir Twair, California
stop killing our human exsistence.
# 35,017:
10:36 am PST, Dec 7, Shannon Morgan, Texas
# 35,016:
10:36 am PST, Dec 7, Vickie Purtell, Oklahoma
# 35,015:
10:34 am PST, Dec 7, Summer Konkiel, Florida
# 35,014:
10:20 am PST, Dec 7, Sara Slayden, Tennessee
You need to leave the refuges alone. The polar bears and other Artic animals do not have enough habitat now without you continuing to take more away from them
# 35,013:
10:12 am PST, Dec 7, Karilyn Brown, Utah
People need to think less about making money. They need to care about our environment and wildlife
# 35,012:
10:11 am PST, Dec 7, Sarah Gawricki, Virginia
# 35,011:
10:05 am PST, Dec 7, Janice Oak, Oklahoma
I can't believe that you are putting our wild lands and wildlife in jeopardy for oil! What about alternative forms of energy?
# 35,010:
9:57 am PST, Dec 7, Irene Saikevych, Oregon
# 35,009:
9:56 am PST, Dec 7, Carol Kitch, Oregon
# 35,008:
9:49 am PST, Dec 7, Name not displayed, Florida
# 35,007:
9:41 am PST, Dec 7, Cassandra Bohman, Kentucky
# 35,006:
9:40 am PST, Dec 7, Linda Friedman, New York
# 35,005:
9:38 am PST, Dec 7, Jade Connelly, Pennsylvania
# 35,004:
9:36 am PST, Dec 7, Matthew Croft, California
# 35,003:
9:36 am PST, Dec 7, THERESA MARKS, Florida
# 35,002:
9:36 am PST, Dec 7, Ileigh Moses, Arizona
# 35,001:
9:33 am PST, Dec 7, Susan Massad, Massachusetts
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