Silbakor
A meandering commentary on the World at Large.
8.12.2005
Help keep Alaska un-drilled
Send photos to your Congressperson!
It's not often I ask my readers to do something. In fact, I'm not sure I ever have before. But now I do.
Many of the Republicans in Congress want to do an end-run around debate, and stick drilling the Alaskan Arctic Refuge into the budget, which is not debated like normal Senate bills. A group of some 2 dozen Republicans have joined most of the Democrats in decrying this action, but they are probably not enough on their own. So we need to get enough people to complain to convince their moderate peers to join them and nip this action in the bud.
Click the link. Choose a photo, and send your representatives a message that you care about the environment. Tell them that you are aware that drilling Alaska will have a negligible impact on our energy needs.
If you want to be really active, Go here for resources on writing letters to the editor and other more vocal activities.
Also, go here to find out how your members of Congress voted on the preliminary measure to allow Alaskan drilling in April.
Bush and his cronies don't care about the environment. Unless we make it politically painful for them to drill, they will.
