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Tell Congress to Resist Calls for Drilling

Sponsored by: Save Our Environment

Anti-environmentalists in Congress are adding amendments to every bill they can get their hands on, calling for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, many offshore areas and other sensitive regions - even to bills that aren't remotely related to energy!

Drilling is NOT the answer to our energy crisis. Drilling in the Arctic and off our beaches will only perpetuate our dependence on dirty fossil fuels and slow progress toward a clean energy future.

Tell your members of Congress that we must pursue clean, renewable energy alternatives.

deadline: 7-3-2009
goal: 20,000

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Dear [Decision maker],

Recently there has been an increase in the number of drilling amendments added to bills in an attempt to solve our nation's energy crisis. Perpetuating our dependence on dirty fossil fuels will not solve our energy problems. I am writing you today to urge you to resist such amendments and instead promote clean, renewable energy.

Oil companies already have permission to drill on more than 41 million acres, yet now they are working to get the long-standing ban on offshore drilling lifted. As it is, oil and gas companies are only using 18 percent of these leases to which they already have access to drill. Proposing new areas to drill when companies are not drilling everywhere they have permission to underscores the immense greed of the energy industry.

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3:54 am PDT, Jun 20, Denisszia Gerocz, Romania

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7:14 pm PDT, Jun 15, Carrie Hobgood, Georgia

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11:29 pm PDT, Jun 7, Tatiana Costa, Brazil

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9:16 am PDT, Jun 7, Jennifer Alward, Canada

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4:58 am PDT, Jun 7, Frida Simms, Virginia

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4:38 am PDT, Mar 25, Marlo Hill, Florida
Getting drilled on at the dentist is the worst part of the whole experience. Stop drilling on the earth. It is causing damage and who knows what else? It wouldn't matter to me if we lost all the oil, then we wouldn't have smelly, polluting cars that break down all the time and we could just go back to walking which is a lot safer. It is good for the body and it is good for the earth, what more can you ask for?

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7:54 pm PDT, Mar 17, Matthew Mann, South Carolina

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9:13 am PDT, Mar 15, Name not displayed, New York

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11:07 pm PDT, Mar 8, Jordan Sanders, Tennessee

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11:04 pm PDT, Mar 8, Lindsey Sanders, Tennessee

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7:28 pm PST, Mar 7, Gail Costic, Pennsylvania

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9:07 pm PST, Mar 3, Wanda Perry, Wyoming
Please do not drill, there are other ways.

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7:05 am PST, Feb 7, Athena Handras, New Jersey

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4:35 pm PST, Jan 18, Aaron Sumner, Michigan
Is harming the environment something we will do to lower gas prices? We can all find alternate sources of energy to use. What will we do when the oil is all gon e on earth.

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1:14 pm PST, Jan 8, Brittany Paniagua-Berlanga, Illinois

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3:03 pm PST, Jan 5, Madeline Amalphy, Maryland

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4:44 pm PST, Jan 3, Mervi Rantala, Finland

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5:36 pm PST, Dec 29, Dave Cannon, Pennsylvania
Start moving toward alternative energy instead of drilling. Drill baby drill is the chant of morons. The oil companies have become too greedy. They have making record profits and destroying our enviorment and show no concern for the future of our planet. STOP DRILLING AND START WORKING MORE ON CLEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY!

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3:57 pm PST, Dec 8, Adam Newman, Illinois

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3:03 pm PST, Dec 8, Holly Ross, West Virginia

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7:04 pm PST, Dec 3, David Peters, United Kingdom

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4:34 pm PST, Nov 28, David Tagliaferro, New Jersey

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4:12 pm PST, Nov 27, Audrey Lareau, California

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10:30 am PST, Nov 25, MaryEllen Raths, Wisconsin
Dear U.S. Congressperson, Recently there has been an increase in the number of drilling amendments added to bills in an attempt to solve our nation's energy crisis. Perpetuating our dependence on dirty fossil fuels will not solve our energy problems. I am writing you today to urge you to resist such amendments and instead promote clean, renewable energy. Oil companies already have permission to drill on more than 41 million acres, yet now they are working to get the long-standing ban on offshore drilling lifted. As it is, oil and gas companies are only using 18 percent of these leases to which they already have access to drill. Proposing new areas to drill when companies are not drilling everywhere they have permission to underscores the immense greed of the energy industry. Sincerely, MaryEllen Raths

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9:30 am PST, Nov 25, Christine Barry, California

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9:23 pm PST, Nov 24, Neil Morrison, California

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6:01 pm PST, Nov 24, Dean A, Florida
im tired of all the petition of drilling we need to stop it and think of the animals

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10:27 pm PST, Nov 22, Trisha Doyle, Nevada

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9:51 am PST, Nov 22, Keth T, Florida

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5:56 am PST, Nov 22, Andrea Watson, Colorado

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4:51 pm PST, Nov 19, Michele Bucci, New Jersey

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3:37 pm PST, Nov 18, Susie Foot, California

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10:46 pm PST, Nov 17, Lydia Ruddick-Schulman, Illinois

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12:43 pm PST, Nov 17, Jeremy Thompson, Texas

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10:41 am PST, Nov 17, Jeannie Gibbons, Texas

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2:05 am PST, Nov 17, Rosemary Graf, Massachusetts
Our animal kingdom has lost too much on our greed.

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11:58 am PST, Nov 15, Richard Rheder, New York

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3:25 pm PST, Nov 14, Amelia Baker, Texas

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12:57 am PST, Nov 12, Nabha Goldfeder, Oregon
drilling is not the answer!

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4:22 pm PST, Nov 11, Julia Bay, Wisconsin

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4:18 pm PST, Nov 11, Delirious Girl, Alabama

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11:43 am PST, Nov 11, Ismael Rodriguez, California

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9:55 pm PST, Nov 10, Mary Ellen Smith, Texas

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5:33 pm PST, Nov 10, Crystal Conklin, Arizona

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1:29 pm PST, Nov 10, Annie Phillips, New York

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4:08 pm PST, Nov 9, Maggie De Leon, Illinois
Consider drilling our earth like getting teeth drilled at the dentist. Keep drilling, drilling, drilling, and soon you'll have nothing left. Think about what you're doing and tell Oil companies NO!

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10:20 am PST, Nov 9, Valerie Starbuck, California

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8:37 pm PST, Nov 8, Justin Hopkins, Missouri

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7:11 pm PST, Nov 8, Brittany Frank, New York

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10:53 am PST, Nov 7, Lorin King, Texas

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4:57 pm PST, Nov 6, Audrey Tobias, California

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4:50 am PST, Nov 6, Roger Swinney, Ohio

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12:41 pm PST, Nov 5, Noah Martin, California

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3:13 pm PST, Nov 2, Tom Prigorac, California

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7:56 pm PDT, Nov 1, Matt Whitehead, Oregon

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12:32 pm PDT, Nov 1, Diane Rencher, Michigan

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