Kerry's Latest Email to Supporters: "Save" the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

Like many other FReepers, I subscribe to Kerry's email list to see what he is spewing out to his supporters.

Check out this beauty, which just arrived.

He wants to "save" the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. That's right, those evil Republicans would destroy it - by permitting drilling on less than 1/10th of 1% of its territory.

This is the Kerry (King of the SUV) who wants us to be less dependent on foreign oil?

Oh, and for the humor-starved among us today, you'll get a chuckle out of his claim that the Republicans are trying to "sneak" the legislation through! Yes, everyone knows that public debate has been stamped out in the Senate!

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Dear ,

We have only 24 to 48 hours to try and save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The Republicans are trying to sneak legislation through the Senate approving oil drilling and they are incredibly close to winning. We have to stop them.

I am joining with Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) in offering a critical amendment to stop this sneak attack on our environment. We will fight on the floor of the Senate, but we need you by our side.

There are seven key Republican Senators whose votes will decide the future of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Before they vote, we need to make sure they know that their constituents are watching, and that they will not be able to support drilling without anybody noticing.

Here are two critical steps we can take together to support our amendment to protect this National Wildlife Refuge:

1. Join the Citizens' Roll Call First of all, take part in a massive fast-moving display of citizen support for the Arctic Refuge. Sign our Cantwell-Kerry Citizens' Roll Call now.

http://www.johnkerry.com/RollCall

To make our Citizens' Roll Call impossible to ignore, we have alerted the media, environmental advocates and my fellow Senators to a scrolling display of the names and home towns of the roll call signers. It is posted on our johnkerry.com website, where we hope to soon add your name and a running tally of the number of citizens on our Citizens' Roll Call.

2. Bring the fight to the home states of the seven senators We need to launch emergency online advertising campaigns in the home states of those seven critical senators: Senator Coleman (MN), Senator Smith (OR), Senator Specter (PA), Senator Martinez (FL), Senator Lugar (IN), and Senators Gregg and Sununu (NH).

We need your help to bring our Save the Arctic Refuge message home in these six states. Help us fund an emergency ad campaign to make sure they know how strongly the people they represent feel about protecting the Arctic. Please make an emergency donation right now.

http://contribute.johnkerry.com/

When Senator Cantwell, myself and other Senators stand up in support of the Cantwell-Kerry Amendment, we will have powerful arguments on our side. (I have recapped some of those arguments at the end of this email message)

But, to win, we need to be able to report directly to our Senate colleagues that massive numbers of citizens around the country - and in their own states - are rising up to demand that the Senate protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

That's why your immediate signature is so critical.

http://www.johnkerry.com/RollCall

The Bush Administration and its oil industry allies want to send a message that they can drill for oil wherever and whenever they want to - even if it means targeting a place as striking, pristine and irreplaceable as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

They don't care about putting America on a genuine path to energy independence. If they did, they'd support efforts to increase energy conservation and to create clean, renewable sources of energy that no terrorist can sabotage and no foreign government can seize.

Let me be very direct with you. It is going to take an immediate and impossible-to-ignore display of grassroots support to stop them. That's why your decision to sign our Cantwell-Kerry Amendment Citizens' Roll Call is so crucial.

Thank you for acting quickly on this vital request.

John Kerry

P.S. Senator Cantwell, who comes from a state in the heart of the Pacific Northwest, has - at considerable political risk - courageously stepped forward to join me in leading this fight. We need you to help us win it.

http://www.johnkerry.com/RollCall

HERE ARE YOUR SAVE THE ARCTIC REFUGE TALKING POINTS The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's 19 million acres comprise one of the last places on earth where an intact expanse of arctic and sub arctic lands remains protected. Drilling in the Arctic Refuge can't make even a small dent in meeting America's energy needs. U.S. Geological Survey scientists estimate that there is very likely only enough oil to supply America's needs for six months. And oil companies admit that, even that, won't be available for at least 10 years. An irreplaceable natural treasure, the Arctic Refuge is home to caribou, polar bears, grizzly bears, wolves, golden eagles, snow geese and more. Millions of other birds use the Arctic Refuge to nest and as a critical staging area on their migratory journeys. Of course, the Arctic Refuge supports more than wildlife. For a thousand generations, the Gwich'in people of Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada have depended on it and lived in harmony with it. To them, the Arctic Coastal Plain is sacred ground.

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[Fast1]

Unreal the guy is a sicko the Rats have all but destroyed our anthracite coal production from what I understand.

[Zacs Mom]

If you plan to email him a reply, please
mention that we are all still

[kingattax]

exactly....great post

[jslade]

Sure looks like a place I would take a vacation to see. /sarcasm

[tertiary01]

Here's a related ANWAR thread dealing with his puppetmaster.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1363335/posts

[finnman69]

here's what the NRDC is claiming is the area they want to drill

[talleyman]

Save ANWR! Rid it of the dangerous oil!
(it's for the children)

LOL!

[AFPhys]

The President is proposing allowing drilling on 2000acres of the ANWR tundra's nearly 20,000,000acres. That makes the percentage more like 0.01% - one part in ten-thousand.

[SuperVillain]

And something else you may or may not be aware of: the six animals Comrade Kerry mentioned rarely if ever migrate far enough north to actually enter the ANWR. Almost all of those 19 million acres are so lifeless and desolate that it could make the moon look like Bermuda. Most of the pictures you see of caribou grazing, polar bears eating, and snow geese doing various snow goose things, are actually taken in state-owned reserves far to the south of the ANWR.

Now, if it had been ketchup below all that ice, maybe John would be singing a different tune...

[finnman69]

Great flash movie

http://www.anwr.org/flash.htm

http://www.anwr.org/

[finnman69]

http://www.anwr.com/archives/how_many_years_could_your_state_run_on_anwr_oil.html

How many years could your state run on ANWR oil?
This was released by the U.S. House Resources Committee based on estimates by the U.S. Geological Survey and Energy Information Agency.

Alabama 103
Alaska 203
Arizona 108
Arkansas 146
California 16
Colorado 120
Connecticut 132
Delaware 399
District of Columbia 1,710
Florida 29
Georgia 54


Hawaii 249
Idaho 363
Illinois 43
Indiana 68
Iowa 132
Kansas 141
Kentucky 79
Louisiana 36
Maine 249
Maryland 100
Massachusetts 75
Michigan 52
Minnesota 84
Mississippi 116
Missouri 77
Montana 342
Nebraska 255
Nevada 226
New Hampshire 315
New Jersey 46
New Mexico 222
New York 34
North Carolina 58
North Dakota 399
Ohio 43
Oklahoma 97
Oregon 155
Pennsylvania 39
Rhode Island 570
South Carolina 120
South Dakota 499
Tennessee 80
Texas 9
Utah 218
Vermont 598
Virginia 62
Washington 68
West Virginia 266
Wisconsin 83
Wyoming 374

*ANWR contains 10.3 billion barrels of oil, according to mean United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimates. These figures were derived based on this mean estimate and petroleum consumption for each state according to the Energy Information Agency (EIA).

[Age of Reason]

I hope the Neuticles I sent to the GOP congress critters work, and they pass this long overdue drilling legislation.

And I hope they don't pass it.

[ApplegateRanch]

Yes John! I will increase conservation!

Starting now, I will:

Replace my 15 watt bulbs with 5W night lites

Turn my thermostat down from 55F to 45F; and set back to 35F at night

Lower the thermostat on my water heater to 75F from 85F

I will install a heavier duty spring in my cars wind-up auxilliary motor, so I can go longer between battery charges to help preserve power

Thank you stopping those evil Republicans from destroying our great nation by drilling for gas & oil.

Oh, in appreciation of your undying efforts to save our country's precious environment, please find my 2 cent donation for your 2024 reelection campaign; it is all I can afford after buying a gallon canister of hydrogen for my fuel cell.

(ss)ATrueBlueBeliever@DUmmieland.nut

P.S. Please help repeal those tax cuts that are destroying us; there is no way I should have had that 2 cents left over to give you; the government should have had it to put to the common use.

[AFPhys]

I once heard that it was discovered that oil was available at Prudhomme Bay because it was pooling on the ground - before drilling was anywhere near that forsaken wasteland.

[pissant]

Save the Caribou?

[airborne]

I once heard that it was discovered that oil was available at Prudhomme Bay because it was pooling on the ground - before drilling was anywhere near that forsaken wasteland.

Can you imagine all those poor defenseless animals getting all fouled with oil.

PETA should be supporting the drilling at ANWR!

(It's for the animals)

[Fierce Allegiance]

It is a great idea totell us to remain dependant on foreign oil when it's over $55 a barrel and gas prices are expected to be over $2.50/gal by summer!

Woohoo, I hope they keep this dork around another 3.5 years!

[finnman69]

[DTogo]

They don't care about putting America on a genuine path to energy independence. If they did, they'd support efforts to increase energy conservation and to create clean, renewable sources of energy that no terrorist can sabotage and no foreign government can seize.

Like the Cape Wind offshore windfarm you REFUSE to take a position on, Senator??

[Publius6961]

here's what the NRDC is claiming is the area they want to drill

Which is total a fraud. Although the area shown is part of ANWAR, it is hundreds of miles from the driling area and totally devoid of trees or green vegetation, and totally devoid of visible living things other than mosquitos...