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Repower America Ad Asks, 'What Are We Waiting For?'
With the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) bill headed the House floor in as little as two weeks, the battle for votes between environmental groups and the fossil fuels industry is on.
On the fossil fuels side in the past week, Chevron CEO David O'Reilly argued that the bill's already weakened greenhouse gas reduction targets simply can't be met, and the utility industry's Edison Electric Institute urged lawmakers to extend the industry's already generous free emissions permits under the cap-and-trade proposal through 2040, rather than 2030.
At the same time, environmental groups started to push back with their own letters and volunteer campaigns calling for Congress to strengthen the climate bill.
Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection and its Repower America campaign jumped in today with a new national TV ad that speaks to the potential for renewable energy to repower America.
“We’re still borrowing money to buy oil from dictators who don’t like us and burning it in ways that kill God’s green earth,” a farmer tells viewers. “Why can’t we use our own clean energy and create good paying jobs here instead of sending billions overseas?”
"We can either go down the same old dead end path or finally do right by our kids. So what are we waiting for?"
The Alliance for Climate Protection is the same group that sat Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich together on a couch last year to call for the nation to address climate change.
Watch the new ad here and learn more about the campaign to repower America with 100 percent clean energy within 10 years.
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America is in a crisis...
America is in a crisis on many fronts while it appears the American people seem not to notice. Americans are now more obese than any other time in our history. Contribute this to the fast food industry. Not to mention the issue of hydrogenated oils/trans fatty acids that cause coronary heart disease, diabetes type II, cancer, auto-immune disorders, attention deficit disorder just to name a few. We have super-sized ourselves literally to an early death. Because of the fast foods the baby boomer generation have consumed, it is estimated that over 55% of the baby boomer generation soon to retire will develop more serious health problems earlier than previous generations. What is very disturbing is that the generation today of 8 to 18 years olds are developing more health problems than any other generation. It affects the lives of people. Both financially and physical.You may be asking yourself, how can I benefit from the bailout of the US economy as an individual? Or where is my piece of the pie? We have to focus because financial crisis is on its attack.
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