ARCTIC REFUGE/GWICH"IN NEED YOUR HELP!

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is working to exploit the fears of high gas prices in order to once again vote on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge sometime during the day of June 10.  The House has already passed a bill for drilling once in this session of Congress, but it was rejected in the Senate.  DeLay has said his latest attempt is to prod the Senate into action on the long stalled energy bill.

While it is unclear what impact, if any, this would have on the Senate, the Republican leadership wants to show that the House is doing something about the high gas prices.  The provision to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been soundly rejected numerous times over the past three years by the Senate, and government reports show that it will have no impact at all on gas prices.

Despite widespread evidence that there is almost nothing that Congress can do to help lower gas prices in the short term, politicians are keeping their eyes on the November elections and ways they can appear to be solving the problem of high gas prices.

Send an email to your Representative at http://capwiz.com/awc/issues/alert/?alertid=2175191 and tell them to oppose any legislation that allows drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

 

Luci Beach
Gwich'in Steering Committee
122 First Avenue, Box 2
Fairbanks, AK 99701
(907) 458-8264
(907) 457-8265 fax