Action Alert! Spread Some Truth About McCain/Bush Energy Plan

The Center for Economic and Policy Research just released a damning report indicting the so-called "liberal media" of irresponsibly and falsely perpetuating the Republican invented Fairy Tale that drilling in environmentally sensitive areas in the U.S. and offshore will lower prices at the pump and alleviate out dependence on foreign oil. (Read it here: http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/media_drilling_2008_09.pdf )

The report cites The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Agency. It States: "There is no empirical basis for believing that drilling in environmentally sensitive offshore zones would significantly affect gas prices. The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Agency (EIA) projects that such drilling would add some 200,000 barrels of oil per day at peak production in about 20 years. This is about 0.2 percent of world production, and the EIA describes this as too small to have any significant effect on oil prices."
Read the EIA's findings for yourself here: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/archive/aeo07/issues.html

If instead we had raised fuel efficiency standards, something Republicans oppose, at a rate of 1.5 mpg in cars and 1.1mpg in trucks annually since 1985, we would be saving 3,300,000 barrels per day. Read this policy brief here: http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/offshore_drilling_2008_06.pdf

Write a letter to your local newspaper using these facts and others to help sway public opinion back on the side of reason and fact!