Moveon asks for action to Stop the Bush-Cheney energy bill

[papau]

Stop the Bush-Cheney energy bill - it's back, and it could come up for a vote at any moment. Republicans have signaled that they'll give as little as 24 hours' notice.

Moveon is asking for FILIBUSTER to stop the energy bill.


Per Moveon, the energy bill is terrible because it:

1. Delays clean-up in smoggy cities, which would increase asthma attacks and other health problems, especially among children and elderly people.

2. Pollutes rivers and coastal waters by exempting oil and gas drilling from clean-up safeguards

3. Allows energy companies to rip off consumers by repealing the Public Utility Holding Company Act.

4. Includes billions in subsidies for big oil, nuclear, timber, and coal companies.

5. Increases air pollution and global warming with new incentives to burn coal for electricity without adequate pollution controls.

6. Threatens drinking water by allowing the underground injection of diesel fuel and other chemicals during oil and gas development.

7. Weakens environmental safeguards to pave the way for more oil and gas drilling on sensitive public lands in the Rocky Mountain West. At least sixteen national hunting and fishing organizations oppose these provisions.

8. Locks in American dependence on foreign oil by adding new roadblocks to better fuel economy.

9. Tramples on states' abilities to protect their coasts from harmful oil and gas exploration by weakening their input on federal coastal projects.

10. Promotes nuclear proliferation by reversing long-standing U.S. policy against reprocessing waste from commercial nuclear reactors, and using plutonium to generate commercial energy.

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[DustMolecule]

2. I don't understand these people

They CONTINUALLY shit up their own house!!! "They" live on this planet, in this country too! They, and their children and families, will be living with this filth and pollution too, why don't they care? Don't they know that it will effect them too?