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Ask Your Friends Not to Buy the Lie About Drilling in the Arctic Refuge!

The message below asks concerned Americans to reject President Bush's proposal to let oil companies drill in the Arctic Refuge and off our seashores — a plan that will do nothing to lower gas prices. You can help us mobilize more Americans against this senseless attack on our natural heritage by forwarding the message to six of your friends, family members or colleagues.

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Dear Friend,

In the seven years since George Bush and Dick Cheney began a "Drill and Spill" rampage worthy of nineteen-century oil barons, the price of oil has skyrocketed 100 dollars and the price of gasoline has more than doubled.

But don't wait for them to admit failure. The White House is too busy exploiting our pain at the gas pump in order to hand Big Oil the ultimate prize: access to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and America's spectacular coastlines.

Their plan is simple and cynical. The President and his Congressional allies will sell America the big lie: If we'd only let the oil giants drill where they want, our problems at the pump will be over.

Please go to http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/stop_arctic_and_offshore_drilling right now and tell your Senators and Representative you are not buying it.

America cannot drill its way out of this energy mess. We simply don't have enough oil to move the world market.

President Bush's own Energy Department estimates that drilling in the Arctic Refuge would lower prices at the pump by less than four pennies per gallon -- and that would be 20 years from now!

Drilling off the spectacular coastlines of California, New England and Florida might produce a few weeks' worth of oil and lower prices by a few more pennies. Meanwhile, the price of gas has gone up 50 cents just this spring!

There's only one way to end our energy pain and that is by breaking our destructive dependence on oil. We need cars that get at least 40 miles per gallon. We need millions of plug-in hybrids that connect to a cleaner electric grid powered by renewables like wind and solar. We need more mass transit and better biofuels.

These are the real energy solutions that President Bush has sacrificed on the altar of oil addiction. Only the oil companies would want more of the same.

Go to http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/stop_arctic_and_offshore_drilling and tell your Senators and Representative to reject these shameless land grabs by Big Oil. Tell them to start kicking our national oil habit instead of emptying our wallets and destroying our last wild places.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
NRDC Action Fund

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