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From: "Berning, Nick" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:21:53 -0400
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http://action.foe.org/t/4027/pressRelease.jsp?press_release_KEY=396

For Immediate Release
July 14, 2008

Contact: 

Nick Berning, 202-222-0748

Bush Pushes McCain Drilling Flip-Flop from White House; Announcement a
Purely Symbolic Gesture

Washington, D.C.-President Bush tried to lend support to John McCain's
offshore drilling flip-flop by announcing today that he would lift an
"executive" ban on offshore drilling, even though a congressional ban
remains in place so more drilling will not actually be allowed.

Friends of the Earth Action President Brent Blackwelder responded with
the following statement:

"President Bush and John McCain should be trying to end America's
addiction to oil, but instead they're pushing this gimmick that won't do
anything to lower the cost of gas.  It's time to stop playing politics
and start finding solutions.  If John McCain and George W. Bush were
serious about addressing this crisis, they would work to create
alternatives to driving and make cars and trucks more efficient-not push
a land grab for the oil companies."

The U.S. Energy Information Agency says opening these waters for
drilling won't impact prices at all for two decades, and even then the
effects will be negligible:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-romm/mccains-cruel-offshore-dr_b_11
1945.html 

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Friends of the Earth Action (www.foeaction.org
<http://www.foeaction.org/> ) provides extra muscle to our sister
organization, Friends of the Earth, in legislative battles affecting our
environment. FoE Action and our affiliated PAC also serve as Friends of
the Earth's political arm, making thoughtful political endorsements,
providing direct support to candidates, and placing environmentalists in
the field on critical campaigns. Friends of the Earth Action's mission
is to promote a clean, healthy and just world and to ensure that we have
lawmakers who will work to protect the environment.

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