DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, PAY LESS

Have you signed the petition at Newt Gingrich's site? If not, please do so.
They were shooting for 1 million signatures by July 4th, and are already at 1.1 million+.

http://www.americansolutions.com/action ... 6a1e096659

MUST READ!!!!!

As I briefly touched on yesterday when we hit one million signatures, this grassroots movement of Americans pressuring our elected officials to drill for American oil has changed the national debate.

This week alone, President Bush, Senator McCain, and Florida Governor Charlie Crist all announced their support for lifting the federal ban on offshore drilling.

And Robert Novak's column today is further proof that you are making a difference:

Members of Congress were swamped by telephone calls and e-mail messages Thursday demanding, ‘‘Drill now!’’ in response to a Republican call for increased American oil production to fight runaway gasoline prices. (emphasis mine)

Lawmakers got little response to previous proposals intended to lower the cost of oil: alternative energy sources, a federal gasoline tax holiday, an excess profits tax on U.S. oil producers and pressure on foreign oil producers. In contrast, the demand to ‘‘drill now’’ (first urged this year by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich) has taken hold.

A footnote: A challenge to his House colleagues by Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia to sign a letter pledging that ‘‘I will vote to increase U.S. oil production to lower gas prices for Americans’’ began Thursday morning with 72 signatures and by mid-afternoon had reached 152. Only one was a Democrat: Neal Abercrombie of Hawaii, which has especially high gasoline prices. Signatures also were mounting on two petitions to force Democratic-controlled committees to send to the House floor two mandatory oil-drilling bills.

Let's keep swamping Congressional phone lines until they respond to the will of the American people.

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