Phyllis, Great lte! People don't realize, or maybe don't want to know about the real cost of oil. The price at the pump is nothing compared to the lives lost in the wars, the damage from fossil fuel pollution and the cost to the planet from climate change. Most of the cry babies at the gas pumps are the ones driving the gas guzzlers. Jerry N ----- Original Message ----- From: Phyllis Mains <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Sat, 28 May 2011 07:05:33 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Des Moines Register 5-18--11 Feels good to have this tiny exposure against the powerful oil lobby and the trashing of public lands for a drop of oil! Phyllis Breaks for Big Oil won't affect gas price Regarding "Don't Believe Ads Paid for by big Oil" (May 19 letter): Oil companies pay millions for TV ads claiming they provide jobs. America has only 3 percent of the world's oil supply and uses 25 percent, so drilling the entire 3 percent would create only a handful of jobs in America. Consider the cost of American lives lost and trillions of dollars spent on wars in the Middle East protecting oil companies there while America gets most of its oil from Canada. Big oil lawmakers were successful stopping a bill that would end subsidies and tax cuts to oil companies earning trillions of profits over the past decade. Oil companies paid for those votes: $39.5 million was spent on lobbying Congress in the first quarter this year, paying $219,300 in campaign contributions to Sen. Chuck Grassley. Lies by lawmakers and oil companies claim drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and keeping tax breaks and subsidies will bring down the price at the pump. The recent economic crisis proved only lack of demand lowered prices at the pump. -- Phyllis Mains, Van Wert - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp To view the Sierra Club List Terms & Conditions, see: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/terms.asp - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp To view the Sierra Club List Terms & Conditions, see: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/terms.asp