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Protect Our Best Lands from Unnecessary Oil and Gas Drilling!
The Bush Administration and the oil and gas industry are trying to use Americans' understandable concern over gas prices to open more lands to drilling. Industry already has way more public land than it can drill responsibly, and analysts agree that more drilling is not the key to lowering our gasoline prices.
Make sure Congress knows there are plenty of Americans who don't buy this latest public relations ploy from the oil industry.
Add your comments to our letter below, then click on Send this Message.
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Subject: No to Oil Drilling!
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
America's last, best public lands are in trouble, and I am writing to ask for your help.
The Bush Administration and the oil and gas industry are trying to use consumers' understandable concerns about high gasoline prices to open more public lands for drilling, even though tens of millions of acres of public lands have already been leased to oil and gas companies.
I don't believe that handing the industry more of our public lands is any sort of solution, and I hope you agree.
More than 44 million acres of public lands (mostly in the western states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico) are already under lease for oil and natural gas development.
Of these 44 million acres, most - more than 30 million acres - have not been used by the oil and gas industry.
I believe strongly that the oil and gas industry should make better use of existing leases in appropriate areas before it attempts to lock up more public lands in environmentally fragile places like Utah's red rock country, or sensitive wildlife habitats in Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, and Colorado.
I also agree with the many experts who insist that opening more public lands to drilling is not the key to lowering our gasoline prices.
Instead of these false solutions, I hope you will work with your Congressional colleagues to promote policies to increase energy efficiency and the use of renewable technologies to solve the problem of high fuel prices. These are the sorts of actions that will move this country toward a sound and forward-thinking energy policy.
The oil and gas industry has plenty of access to our public lands. Please do all you can to ensure that more environmentally sensitive areas are not opened to oil and gas drilling under the guise of lowering gas prices.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
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