ECO-ACTION ALERT! The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is in peril and there is not a minute to spare. Your help is needed right now to keep oil rigs out of the Refuge's unmatched wilderness!

Date:   10/21/2005 3:25:26 PM ( 19 y ago)

Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! Polar bear cubs, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Photo courtesy of the USFWS. We can do better than to sacrifice the Arctic Refuge to our gas-guzzling economy. Urge Congress to do everything in their power to keep oil rigs out of our Arctic Refuge

Please click here to take action!http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/273529837?z00m=59723&z00m=59723...

As you read this, the oil industry's allies in Congress are very close to passing a budget bill that would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. Unless we stop them, this world-class wilderness - home to grizzlies, caribou, wolves and millions of birds - will become a vast oil field with its heavy equipment, pollution and miles of roads.

Please take a moment to tell Congress to keep the oil industry out of this extraordinary place. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/273529837?z00m=59723&z00m=59723...

In Hurricane Katrina and Rita's aftermath, some members of Congress are trying to push Arctic Refuge drilling as the answer to America's energy problems.

But oil from the Refuge, if it is found at all, would take years to come to production and would affect the price of gasoline by just one penny per gallon!

Famed conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote that "Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm."

America is neither desperate nor shortsighted. We can do better than to sacrifice the Arctic Refuge to our gas-guzzling economy. We have the means and the technology to wean ourselves from profligate oil use. Please take a moment to tell that to your members of Congress right now: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/273529837?z00m=59723&z00m=59723...

This vote will be very close. Your action can make the difference. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/273529837?z00m=59723&z00m=59723...

Thank you for your help,

Jenny McKinley
Care2 & ThePetitionSite Team


Action Sponsored by The Wilderness Society.  For more information about this organization, go to: http://www.wilderness.org/

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