The recent reports that President-elect Barack Obama is contemplating issuing executive orders blocking exploration of the Outer Continental Shelf and drilling in Utah are deeply troubling. We are now enjoying low oil prices because both Congress and the president this fall removed the restrictions on most new oil exploration and our economy is in a recession. If a new Presidential Executive Order again prohibits new oil exploration, oil prices will again skyrocket.
This is a bipartisan concern.
Lower oil prices are the only thing helping the consumers struggling with mortgage payments and rising prices. If we lose this advantage, an economy that is on life-support may not have the ability to recover for a long, long time. A longer recession will especially hurt the working poor and new job formation. If we do not take advantage of this respite from the high prices of the summer to prepare more domestic sources of energy, we will be hammered by even more rising prices as our economy starts to recover.
I encourage all people, Democrats, Republicans and independents, to urge our president-elect and our congressional representative to oppose any bans of oil exploration. The president-elect's contact is http://change.gov/page/s/contact, and the 2nd District Congressional Office contact is http://tammybaldwin.house.gov/contact html.
While I was a candidate for Congress this fall, my appeal to fellow citizens is not intended to be partisan but civic. It is vital that everyone who is concerned about the effect of high oil prices acts. Much may be at stake.
This is a bipartisan concern.
Lower oil prices are the only thing helping the consumers struggling with mortgage payments and rising prices. If we lose this advantage, an economy that is on life-support may not have the ability to recover for a long, long time. A longer recession will especially hurt the working poor and new job formation. If we do not take advantage of this respite from the high prices of the summer to prepare more domestic sources of energy, we will be hammered by even more rising prices as our economy starts to recover.
I encourage all people, Democrats, Republicans and independents, to urge our president-elect and our congressional representative to oppose any bans of oil exploration. The president-elect's contact is http://change.gov/page/s/contact, and the 2nd District Congressional Office contact is http://tammybaldwin.house.gov/contact html.
While I was a candidate for Congress this fall, my appeal to fellow citizens is not intended to be partisan but civic. It is vital that everyone who is concerned about the effect of high oil prices acts. Much may be at stake.
