Congress Renews Energy Tax Credits

Is $4 Gas Key to Solving Energy Crisis?

No, but neither are most of the short-term, easy-fix solutions to gas prices currently being discussed.

High gas prices are straining family budgets, driving up the cost of food, and forcing some to reconsider vacations and other travel. Yet they have also led to decreased car and fuel usage, and increased awareness of the need for a new energy policy.

Urge candidates for Congress to support energy conservation.

Is the High Price of Gas an Opportunity?

How Much Does a Gallon of Gas Really Cost?

By a vote of 231 to 189, the House on September 16 passed legislation that would expand offshore drilling for oil. Drilling is not the answer to the energy crisis this country faces. We at FCNL oppose proposals to expand offshore drilling

The Most Powerful CFL...

. . . is the one you put in Congress. Climate Friendly Legislators support

• reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020;
  
• a moratorium on new, polluting, coal-burning power plants;
  
• requiring electric utilities to generate at least 20 percent of their electricity from the wind, sun, oceans, and other renewable sources by 2020; and
  
• helping poor and vulnerable people at home and abroad advance in the climate-friendly economy of the future.

Will your next legislators be enlightened CFLs? Ask them. Download FCNL's flyer.