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Subject: Press Release: Bush, McCain Do Texas Two-Step with Big Oil
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:28:36 -0400
 
 
For Immediate Release:
 June 18, 2008
 
Contact: Kristina Johnson, 415-977-5619
 
Bush, McCain Do Texas Two-Step with Big Oil
 Push to Open Protected Coastlines to Drilling Would Add to Oil Industry
 Profits
 
Washington, DC: Today, President Bush joined Senator John McCain in calling
 on Congress to end the ban that has protected America’s most pristine
 coastlines from oil drilling since 1981.
 
Statement of Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope
 
“Yesterday, Senator John McCain called for a break with the energy policies
 of current and past administrations. But now Senator McCain and President
 Bush are offering the exact same answer to our energy crisis: more drilling
 on our coasts. This week we are watching President Bush and Senator McCain
 do the Texas Two-Step with Big Oil.
 
“The proposals from both President Bush and Senator McCain to open
 America’s pristine beaches and last remaining wild places to oil drilling
 would do nothing to solve our energy problems.
 
“Drilling our last undeveloped coastlines will do nothing to ease pain at
 the pump for the average American family. It will only add to the oil
 industry’s tens of billions of dollars in record profits.
 
“We can’t afford to waste time with the same old outdated cry for more
 drilling. If Senator McCain is really interested in breaking our addiction
 to oil, putting America back to work, and tackling global warming, we urge
 him to reconsider his support for the failed policies of the past. It’s
 time for President Bush, Senator McCain and the rest of Congress to support
 the common sense plan put forth by the Senate leadership, the
 Consumer-First Energy Act. This plan would make sure the oil industry is
 paying its fair share, crack down on speculators, put our economy back on
 the path to prosperity, help end our dangerous dependence on fossil fuels,
 and fight global warming.”
 
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