Dear Bluestem Volunteers:
Tell our Senators
to support Renewable Energy Tax Credits extension
and oppose the "Gang of Ten” Energy “Reform” Act
The Senate is poised to take up a number of
energy proposals this week. The first one extends tax credits for renewable energy, like wind and solar, that are set to
expire at the end of this year which we support.
One of the other measures they will vote on
is the New Energy Reform Act, also known as the "Gang of Ten"
proposal which we oppose. Pro-drilling members of the Senate tout this bill
as a bipartisan compromise, but in effect it is more of the same giveaways
to Big Oil and King Coal that got us into our current energy and climate
predicament in the first place. This time they wrapped them in a thin blanket
of renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Please call Senator Durbin
at 202-224-2152
Please call Senator Obama at 202-224-2854.
Among other things, the “Gang of Ten” new Energy Reform
Act would open more of our coasts to harmful offshore
drilling, facilitate the development of liquid coal fuels, which cause global warming, and give billions of dollars in new
subsidies to the nuclear industry. The “Gang of Ten” Energy “Reform” Act relies
on fossil fuel development that will only further
our addiction to oil and coal.
Instead, we need a clean energy future that is based on significantly
increasing the amount of energy we get from renewables, increasing the
efficiency of our homes and office buildings, and making our cars and trucks go
further on a gallon of gas.
Tell your Senators to support the tax extenders package for clean wind and solar energy and to oppose the “Gang of Ten” New Energy Reform Act today.
Thank you for all you do.
Sincerely,
Linda Sullivan and Julia Nephew
Bluestem coordinators