Subject: [big campaign] LCV Responds to Lifting of Executive Offshore Drilling Ban
From: David Sandretti <[email-masked]>
To: Big Campaign <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:53:51 -0400
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 14, 2008
Contact: Josh McNeil, (202) 454-4573 or [email-masked]

LCV Responds to Lifting of Executive Offshore Drilling Ban

The League of Conservation Voters, which works to turn environmental values
into national priorities, today responded to President Bush¹s decision to
lift the executive ban on offshore oil drilling.
 
³Echoing the campaign rhetoric of Senator John McCain, President Bush has
once again ignored the wise precedent set by his father  and taken reckless
action that has neither hope of reducing gas prices nor concern for
long-term consequences,² LCV President Gene Karpinski said.  ³Bush¹s own
energy department tells us that offshore drilling will have no effect on gas
prices, but Bush and McCain have always made Big Oil¹s profits their primary
concern.   With several short-term options to reduce gas prices, including
opening the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and reigning in speculators, it
makes no sense for Bush and McCain to embrace an option that won¹t work and
will threaten the physical and economic well-being of millions of Americans.

Ultimately, the solution to gas prices must be to give consumers real energy
choices by investing in efficiency and renewable energy sources, but Bush
and McCain can¹t see the future through the oil covered windshield of the
Straight Talk Express.²

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