11/15/2005

From: alra@governance.net
Subject: Cut Your Energy Bill -- Mail Your Heating Bill To Your Congressman

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Cut Your Energy Bill -- Mail Your Heating Bill To Your Congressman

Urgent action needed to cut your energy bills and end the domination of foreign suppliers.

Congressional leadership, under pressure from Democrats and Northeast Republicans, has stripped long overdue provisions to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to environmentally safe oil and gas exploration from the current budget reconciliation bill.  

Both of these areas are home to vast, still untapped, supplies of American energy.
Time is short but if you and millions like you take immediate action we have a chance to restore these provisions to protect our energy future, American jobs and American families.

Tell them you are tired of energy welfare and dependence on foreign sources.  You want energy independence for America NOW!

Action Items

-----1.  Pull out your latest heating bill (whether you heat with natural gas or oil your costs will skyrocket this winter).  Then, do this:  either write on the bill itself or attach a note to it, directed to your Congressman, including some of the talking points listed below in your own words.

Mail it immediately to Energy Independence Coalition, 611 Pennsylvania Ave SE #142, Washington, DC; 20003-4303.   Your mail will then be hand delivered to your Congressman.  If you send it to your Congressman directly, it will be delayed by the anthrax inspections and he or she won’t get it for a month.

-----2.  Call your Congressman immediately at the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 225-3121 to tell him you are sending your latest heating bill.  Tell him you are going to send the larger one next month and the even larger one in January.   Urge him to support opening up ANWR and the OCS to exploration and production so heating prices can be kept fair.  Getting more supply will cut costs better than more energy welfare.

-----3.  Fax a copy of your heating bill to your Congressman.  When you call the number above, ask for his fax number.  Be sure to write a note on your heating bill.

-----4.  Call at least three friends to urge them to do the same things.

-----5.  Please forward this message to as many people as you can.


Talking Points (Pick one, two or three.  Put in your own words)

-----Here's my latest heating bill, proof of how my family is being hurt by out of control energy costs.

-----It is urgent that the House restore the ANWR and OCS provisions to the budget reconciliation bill.

-----The Senate has already passed these provisions with a bipartisan vote after years of effort.  

-----It is important that the House take this rare opportunity to protect American jobs and families from dependence on foreign suppliers.

-----I simply can't afford to have my heating, gasoline and electricity costs continue to climb.

-----Please, we need your courage and leadership to stand up for Americans and restore the ANWR and OCS provisions to the reconciliation bill.

-----I will send you my energy bills every month until ANWR and OCS are opened, as a constant reminder of my desperate situation.

-----My family and I will be forever grateful if you take action to provide us with badly needed help.

It is important that every congressman or woman be contacted but it is even more important that you send your bill if yours is one of the congressmen and women who are opposing opening ANWR and the OCS areas.  See if your representative is on this list and contact him or her immediately.

Charles Bass, NH  -- (202) 225-5206 – Fax (202) 225-2946
Nancy L. Johnson, CT – (202) 225-4476 – Fax (202) 225-4488
Frank LoBiondo, NJ – (202) 225-6572 – Fax (202) 225-3318
Rob Simmons, CT – (202) 225-2076 – Fax (202) 225-4977
Rodney Frelinghuysen, NJ – (202) 225-5034 – Fax (202) 225-3186

Christopher Shays, CT – (202) 225-5541 – Fax (202) 225-9629
Sue Kelly, NY – (202) 225-5441 – Fax (202) 225-3289
Sherwood Boehlert, NY – (202) 225-3665 – Fax (202) 225-1891
Jim Saxton, NJ – (202) 225-4765 – Fax (202) 225-0778
Jeb Bradley, NH – (202) 225-5456 – Fax (202) 225-5822

Wayne Gilchrest, MD – (202) 225-5311 – Fax (202) 225-0254
Mike Castle, DE – (202) 225-4165 – Fax (202) 225-2291
Jim Gerlach, PA – (202) 225-4315 – Fax (202) 225-8440
Vernon Ehlers, MI – (202) 225-3831 – Fax (202) 225-5144
James Walsh, NY – (202) 225-3701 – Fax (202) 225-4042

Mark Kirk, IL – (202) 225-4835 – Fax (202) 225-0837
Jim Ramstad, MN – (202) 225-2871 – Fax (202) 225-6351
Tim Johnson, SD – (202) 225-2371 – Fax (202) 226-0791
Jim Sensenbrenner, WI – (202) 225-5101 – Fax (202) 225-3190
Jim Leach, IA – (202) 225-6576 – Fax (202) 226-1278

Michael Fitzpatrick, PA – (202) 225-4276 – Fax (202) 225-9511
Mark Kennedy, MN – (202) 225-2331 – Fax (202) 225-6475
Mike Ferguson, NJ – (202) 225-5361 – Fax (202) 225-9460
Bob Inglis, SC – (202) 225- 6030 – Fax (202) 225-1177
Dave Reichert, WA -- (202) 225-7761 – Fax (202) 225-8673

Roscoe Bartlett, MD – (202) 225-2721 – Fax (202) 225-2193
Walter Jones, NC – (202) 225-3415 – Fax (202) 225-3286
Steven LaTourette, OH – (202) 225-5731 – Fax (202) 225-3307
John McHugh, NY – (202) 225-4611 – Fax (202) 225-0621
Joe Schwarz, MI – (202) 225-6276 – Fax (202) 225-6281

Heather Wilson, NM – (202) 225-6316 – (202) 225-4975
Mark Foley, FL – (202) 225-5792 – Fax (202) 225-3132
J. Dennis Hastert, IL – (202) 225-2976 – Fax (202) 225-0697
Katherine Harris, FL – (202) 225-5015 – Fax (202) 226-0828
Connie Mack, FL – (202) 225-2536 – Fax (202) 225-6820

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, FL – (202) 225-3931 – Fax (202) 225-5620
Clay Shaw, FL – (202) 225-3026 – Fax (202) 8398
Bill Young, FL – (202) 225-5961 – Fax (202) 225-9764

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Make sure you also send your heating bill to the Speaker of the 
House Dennis Hastert , IL – (202) 225-2976 – Fax (202) 225-0697

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Some energy facts you should know:

XXXXX - The Clinton Administration published a report, "The Environmental Benefits of Advanced Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Technologies", which proved we can recover oil and gas safely in the most sensitive environments.  You can read it at: http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/issues/emr/anwr/perspectives.htm

XXXXX - The amount of oil in ANWR is equal to up to 30 years of imports from Saudi Arabia.

XXXXX - Oil exploration in ANWR would use only 2,000 of the refuge's 19.5 million acres.

XXXXX - Congress originally set aside this land for future oil and gas production when it created the refuge.

XXXXX - Areas in the outer continental shelf, more than 150 miles from land, hold abundant quantities of natural gas and oil in very deep water, sufficient enough to dramatically reduce home heating bills across the country.

XXXXX - Even during the massive destruction of oil platforms during hurricanes Katrina and Rita, there wasn't a single oil spill from these ultra-safe facilities.

REMEMBER, WRITE YOUR LETTER TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN TODAY AND SEND THE 611 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, # 142, Washington, DC 20003-4303 FOR HAND DELIVERY TO THEIR OFFICE.


Please forward this message as widely as possible.  Thank you.







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