As a voice for the middle and lower class back bone blue collar workers who have suffered calamities of loss of home, loss of car, loss of possession (and in some cases even loss of children) I beseech you to stop giving the big billionaire oil companies breaks when the average family doesn't even have a loaf of bread on their table 3 weeks of the month.
Also, on behalf of the world's gentle ecology system that has been far over taxed by the recent radiation spewing into the Pacific from Japan, the newest "BIG" oil spill in the tiny region of the horseshoe shaped - inland - pool like - catch all of the Gulf of Mexico. And on behalf of the thousands of marine life who have painfully suffered by choking on oil or being strangled my plastic from the huge Vortex of Plastic twice the size of the state of Texas and floating in the middle of the ocean between Japan & Hawaii. Plastic is bi-product of oil.
And since I personally know that the BIG Oil companies could care less about their employees or any other people who may be hurting financially even to the point of not having a roof over their head or a car to drive...
I do write to ask that you vote to end subsidies for the oil industry. I ask you to bring an end to these subsidies, which are an unnecessary burden on American taxpayers, and which support an industry that exploits American lands.
These subsidies go to the same industry that is pushing legislation which would expedite offshore development without new safety requirements. The oil industry fights safety inspections, complains about environmental safeguards critical to protecting community water supplies and wildlife refuges, pressures Congress to gut environmental laws and blocks attempts to ensure that the taxpaying public gets fair value through royalties when they exploit the lands that belong to all Americans.
In a budget environment where severe cuts to environmental protection programs, education and programs like Medicare are being threatened, there's no place for the oil industry giveaways that cost taxpayers $40 billion each decade.
I hope you will vote to end giveaways to big oil, and that you will lend your support to increasing renewable clean energy for the U.S.
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