"Drill, baby, drill"
That was the cheer that echoed through the arena at the
Republican National Convention in Minnesota two weeks ago. It's still ringing in
my ears.
It's the rallying
cry of those who think subsidizing big polluters is more important than fixing
the energy crisis. This is the environmental policy you can expect from John
McCain and Sarah Palin.
Enough is
enough. It's time to put the juvenile chants of Big Oil's loyalists aside and
let the facts speak for themselves. But we need you at our
side.
Make a
contribution of $35, $50, or $75 today and help the League of Conservation
Voters defeat anti-environmentalists, including John McCain and Sarah Palin,
this November.
In this election,
we have a can't-miss opportunity to end America's addiction to oil once and for
all. But politicians like McCain and Palin threaten our path to a clean
energy future, with promises to reverse all the environmental progress you and I
have fought so hard for.
John McCain
(lifetime LCV rating of 24%) is nowhere to be found in the fight to bring common
sense to U.S. energy policy. He voted against raising fuel efficiency
standards twice recently. He voted against incentives for
renewable energy standards for wind and solar power. And he recently
ducked two opportunities to end tax breaks for Big Oil, and one of those
times we lost by just one vote.
Sarah Palin's
record is no better. She has denied that global warming is
"man-made." She has been one of the most vocal advocates for
reckless drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Palin even
sued the federal government for listing polar bears as 'threatened' under the
Endangered Species Act, and has been an advocate for the deplorable practice of
aerial hunting of wolves and bears.
Lorraine,
if we don't get it done over the next 48 days, we're looking at four more
years. Four more years of the tired old policies that brought $4 a
gallon gas for you and windfall profits for Big Oil.
We must
ramp up our efforts now. Will you help give us the resources we need to
tell undecided voters the truth about John McCain and Sarah
Palin?
Donate today so
we can defeat the "drill, baby, drill" extremists and elect the environmental
champions we deserve.
"Drill, baby,
drill," they chanted. Isn't it time for a change?
Sincerely,
Gene Karpinski
League of Conservation Voters