This week, Democratic leadership in Congress will offer a compromise energy package that will include both clean energy investments and some expanded drilling measures. It absolutely must pass!

Folks, we are seriously caught between a rock and a hard place here!  As Al Gore points out, “[W]e face a stark choice: subsidize old, dirty energy or invest in new, clean energy. This should be easy, but the influence of the oil lobby is deep — they’ve already spent more than $100 million in lobbying and advertising this year.”

Unfortunately, that “Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.” stupidity is winning over too many voters and too many vulnerable and Blue Dog Democrats in Congress.  Democratic leadership has thus far been able to reject all the Big Oil driven “drill only” energy proposals, that focused too much on dirty energy resources that helps the oil industry but does nothing to lower gas prices, protect consumers, or solve our energy crisis and only provided lip service to clean renewable energy.

But now our backs are up against a wall.

The moratorium on offshore drilling expires on September 30!!!

Let me repeat… The moratorium on offshore drilling expires on September 30!!!

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