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so I don't know how many of you participate in moveon.org initiatives, but today they sent out a petition about "Big Oil" and gas prices and received hundreds of thousands of responses within hours. so... i'm posting in the hopes that some of you may sign it, too, and they'll have hundreds of thousands more responses by tomorrow.
Here's what they wrote:
Dear MoveOn member,
As of yesterday, gas prices are the highest in U.S. history-we just passed the 1981 record, even adjusted for inflation. Prices could reach $4.00 per gallon in parts of the country, just in time to crimp summer vacation plans. As consumers suffer, the oil industry continues to reap the windfall-breaking profit records on an almost quarterly basis. It's outrageous!
Enough is enough. Hearings start today on H.R. 1252, a House bill that would make gas price gouging a federal crime, punishable by 10 years in prison. Speaker Pelosi has said she'll move the bill to a vote this week-if there's the two-thirds majority required to fast track the bill through the process.
Oil company lobbyists are frantically trying to stop the bill. Your representative needs to hear from you today. Will you sign our petition asking Congress to pass the price-gouging bill-and then send it to your friends?
"Gasoline price gouging should be made a federal crime before the summer price increases hurt more American families."
Sign the petition:
http://pol.moveon.org/stoppricegouging/?rc=oil_petition&id=10387-6390936-Uuovva&t=4
Here's what they wrote:
Dear MoveOn member,
As of yesterday, gas prices are the highest in U.S. history-we just passed the 1981 record, even adjusted for inflation. Prices could reach $4.00 per gallon in parts of the country, just in time to crimp summer vacation plans. As consumers suffer, the oil industry continues to reap the windfall-breaking profit records on an almost quarterly basis. It's outrageous!
Enough is enough. Hearings start today on H.R. 1252, a House bill that would make gas price gouging a federal crime, punishable by 10 years in prison. Speaker Pelosi has said she'll move the bill to a vote this week-if there's the two-thirds majority required to fast track the bill through the process.
Oil company lobbyists are frantically trying to stop the bill. Your representative needs to hear from you today. Will you sign our petition asking Congress to pass the price-gouging bill-and then send it to your friends?
"Gasoline price gouging should be made a federal crime before the summer price increases hurt more American families."
Sign the petition:
http://pol.moveon.org/stoppricegouging/?rc=oil_petition&id=10387-6390936-Uuovva&t=4