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Send your fax now to President George W. Bush and your senators. This bill has already passed the house.

President Bush Fax # 1-202-456-2461

Mel Martinez Fax: 1-202-228-5171

Bill Nelson Fax: 1-202-228-2183

Pelosi is telling the American people... drill to your heart's content as long as you don't drill where there is oil!

But that's not all! The Institute for Energy Research also states:

"The plan permanently bans access to 97 percent of the 10.527 billion barrels off the coast of California. It allows the State to decide whether to produce just 3 percent, or 287 million barrels, which is highly unlikely anyway. The remainder...10.24 billion barrels...is off limits."

"Keeping the Eastern Gulf of Mexico off limits also denies access to large reserves located close to existing pipeline infrastructure. The plan keeps an estimated 3.65 [billion] barrels of oil and 22 trillion cubic feet of natural gas off limits.

"The offshore areas surrounding the State of Alaska are not currently subject to any bans. This plan appears to institute a 50-mile ban around energy-rich Alaskan shore for the first time ever . Energy exploration there is just beginning.

"While the plan enables the states to 'opt in' and produce energy between 50 and 100 miles, it lacks a revenue sharing mechanism, thereby making it highly unlikely that state would chose to do so...

RE: Block the Pelosi Sham Energy Legislation! Drill Here and Drill Now!

On Monday evening at 9:45 PM, Pelosi dropped a 245-page bill on Congress (H.R. 6899, the so-called “Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act.”). Then, using arcane procedural maneuvers, she effectively stifled substantive debate, by-passed the committee process, prohibited amendments and forced a vote within 24 hours! And on Tuesday evening, in the dark of night, the House of Representatives passed this "sham bill" on a mostly partisan vote of 239-189!

It's a sham and a cruel joke on the American people! Pelosi’s legislation is not a "policy reversal" and will not "allow greater drilling!"

According to House Minority Leader John Boehner; "It leaves most American energy under lock and key when we should be doing everything possible to expand energy production, increase conservation and promote development of clean, renewable energy. It would permanently lock up 80 percent of our nation's offshore energy resources -- holding hostage billions of barrels of American oil."

The Institute for Energy Research echoes that sentiment and calls this plan an "expensive energy bridge to nowhere." The Institute for Energy Research adds: "Based on the bill summary, however, the plan appears to be more of a 'bait and switch' that won’t do much of anything to bring new energy supplies to market for a long, long time."

"Drill Here and Drill Now" means just that! It does NOT mean 'trick the American people, institute new taxes, memorialize drilling prohibitions in areas that contain recoverable oil and open up domestic drilling in areas where there is no oil!' The American people are not fooled by this chicanery and I expect you to stand firm on the issue of domestic drilling at all cost!

Sincerely,

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