OFF TOPIC: Fwd: Kick the Oil Habit

[Guest guest]

I hope no one minds this off topic post since

pollution is affecting all our lives:

--- Redford

<robert.redford@...> wrote:

> > Dear B,

>

> RedfordWhen President Bush took office

> in 2001, the average

> price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline

> was $1.47. Today the

> average price is $2.89 and it's much more in

> many places. This surge

> in gas prices has hit a nerve for many around

> the country, reminding

> us of an economy that is increasingly uncertain

> for the middle-class,

> a growing addiction to oil that draws us ever

> closer to dictators and

> despots, and a fragile global position with a

> climate that is

> increasingly out of balance.

>

> It's time to rise to the challenge and Kick the

> Oil Habit.

>

> Join me and thousands of others by taking

> action at

> www.KicktheOilHabit.org

>

> We just launched a campaign to take on Big Oil

> companies and demand

> better energy solutions. Please take a moment

> to visit our site and

> watch our powerful video that shows how Big Oil

> and their backers in

> Washington are profiting while working

> Americans are paying more.

>

> Screen Capture from Kick the Oil Habit Ad

>

> www.KicktheOilHabit.org

>

> Our first action is to challenge oil companies

> to double the number

> of E85 ethanol fuel pumps at their stations

> within a year and pledge

> to offer renewable fuel at half of all gas

> stations within the

> decade.

>

> Please join our effort and take action now:

> http://www.KicktheOilHabit.org

>

> Thank you,

>

> Redford on behalf of the Kick the Oil

> Habit campaign.

>

> A PROJECT OF

> Center for American Progress Action Fund

>

> KicktheOilHabit.org is a campaign of the Center

> for American Progress

> Action Fund, which is working to transform

> progressive ideas into

> policy through rapid response communications,

> legislative action,

> grassroots organizing and advocacy, and

> partnerships with other

> progressive leaders throughout the country and

> the world.

>

>

[Guest guest]

bbw wrote:

I hope no one minds this off topic post since

pollution is affecting all our lives:

Kicking the oil habit, the chemical dependence, the continuous exhaust

that chokes us daily is NOT OFF TOPIC.

For many it IS THE TOPIC. I was with a severely disabled woman a few

weeks ago, living way from society hopint that gas prices will double

and triple and jsut keep going - or no one will really do anything. My

neighbors STILL leave their cars on at the grocery - its not even

winter. They obviously don't find it polluting nor do they find it too

expensive. One man said " it costs less to leave it on " that true???