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- From: "Anne Woiwode" <Anne.Woiwode@sierraclub.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:26:52 -0400
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Enviro-Mich message from "Anne Woiwode" <Anne.Woiwode@sierraclub.org>
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
July 27 , 2005 Brian O'Malley 202-675-6279
AMERICA NEEDS REAL ENERGY SOLUTIONS
Statement of Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club
"America needs a safer, cleaner, and more secure energy future. Sadly, the
energy bill that has emerged from the House and Senate conference committee
fails on all counts. Instead of cutting America's oil dependence, boosting
production of renewable energy, and lowering energy prices, this bill
funnels billions of taxpayer dollars to polluting energy industries, and
opens up our coastlines and wildlands to destructive oil and gas
activities.
"If Congress believes that this bill will lower gas prices or cut America's
oil dependence, then the heat wave must be affecting their judgement.
"Americans don't want to give free reign to the energy industry to spend
their tax dollars and evade environmental and consumer protections. What
they want is for Congress to address high energy costs by putting real
solutions to work. The energy bill conference failed on multiple occasions
to demonstrate that kind of leadership and as a result produced a bill that
continues America's downward spiral of increasing oil dependence and rising
prices.
"It's unfortunate that, as Americans head to the beach for summer vacation,
their representatives in Congress are considering opening up these very
coasts to destructive oil and gas drilling. Approving an inventory of oil
and gas reserves off America's coasts - a destructive process itself - is
the first step toward dismantling decades of important coastal protections.
"We urge members of Congress to do everything in their power to reject this
destructive and backwards energy bill. It's time to start over with a
smarter, cleaner, safer, and cheaper energy policy that puts innovation and
technology to work."
BY THE NUMBERS: ENERGY BILL, GAS PRICES, OIL COMPANY PROFIT RECORD PRICES
$2.32: Average retail price for regular gasoline, up 39 cents over the last
year. (Energy Information Administration (EIA) - www.eia.doe.gov)
$2,873: Amount average family of four will spend on gasoline this year
(Consumer Expenditure Survey from Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Energy
Information Administration)
$59.40: Price per barrel of crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange,
up $18.30 from last year. (EIA & Bloomberg News - www.bloomberg.com/energy/
)
RECORD OIL DEPENDENCE
58%: Total U.S. dependence on net imports of foreign oil in 2005. Up from
44.5% in 1995. (EIA)
25%: The percentage of world oil production consumed by the United States
(EIA)
3%: Percentage of world?s oil reserves located in the United States (EIA)
130,000: Additional barrels of oil consumed per day by the United States as
a result of the energy bill extending loopholes for the auto industry that
weaken federal fuel economy standards (Sec. 772)
RECORD PROFITS
$25.3 billion: Exxon Mobil's record-setting profits last year
$3.4 billion: Fourth-quarter 2004 profit for Chevron-Texaco Corp, double
the profit for the same quarter of the previous year.
218%: Exxon Mobil profit increase last year
145%: ConocoPhillips profit increase last year
51%: Shell profit increase last year
39%: ChevronTexaco profit increase last year
35%: BP profit increase last year
RECORD TAXPAYER GIVEAWAYS
$80 billion: Total money (tax breaks, direct spending, and authorizations)
currently in the energy bill conference report to polluting energy
industries. $66.3 billion in authorized spending, $11.68 billion in the tax
package, and $2 billion in the Administration?s new nuclear risk insurance
provisions. (Taxpayers for Common Sense - www.taxpayer.net)
$3 billion: Cost to taxpayers to conduct an invasive oil and gas inventory
along the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) even though these coastal areas are
currently under a decades old drilling moratorium.
$0: Total royalty payments from the oil and gas industry for deep water
exploration on public lands (Sec. 345) and for oil drilled areas off
Alaska?s coastline (Section 346) since the energy bill allows the industry
to forgo royalty payments for these activities.
RECORD CONTRIBUTIONS
$52.3 million: Amount the oil and gas industry contributed to political
candidates in 2004 (Center for Responsive Politics - www.opensecrets.org)
$314.4 million: Amount the energy and natural resources industries spent on
lobbying in 2003 and 2004. (Bloomberg News)
# # #
For the house vote count go to:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll445.xml
SENATE VOTE COUNT
YEAS--74
Akaka Democrat Hawaii Y
Alexander Republican Tennessee Y
Allard Republican Colorado Y
Allen Republican Virginia Y
Baucus Democrat Montana Y
Bayh Democrat Indiana Y
Bennett Republican Utah Y
Bingaman Democrat New Mexico Y
Bond Republican Missouri Y
Brownback Republican Kansas Y
Bunning Republican Kentucky Y
Burns Republican Montana Y
Burr Republican North Carolina Y
Byrd Democrat West Virginia Y
Cantwell Democrat Washington Y
Chambliss Republican Georgia Y
Coburn Republican Oklahoma Y
Cochran Republican Mississippi Y
Coleman Republican Minnesota Y
Collins Republican Maine Y
Conrad Democrat North Dakota Y
Cornyn Republican Texas Y
Craig Republican Idaho Y
Crapo Republican Idaho Y
Dayton Democrat Minnesota Y
DeMint Republican South Carolina Y
DeWine Republican Ohio Y
Dole Republican North Carolina Y
Domenici Republican New Mexico Y
Dorgan Democrat North Dakota Y
Durbin Democrat Illinois Y
Ensign Republican Nevada Y
Enzi Republican Wyoming Y
Frist Republican Tennessee Y
Graham Republican South Carolina Y
Grassley Republican Iowa Y
Hagel Republican Nebraska Y
Harkin Democrat Iowa Y
Hatch Republican Utah Y
Hutchison Republican Texas Y
Inhofe Republican Oklahoma Y
Inouye Democrat Hawaii Y
Isakson Republican Georgia Y
Johnson Democrat South Dakota Y
Kohl Democrat Wisconsin Y
Landrieu Democrat Louisiana Y
Levin Democrat Michigan Y
Lieberman Democrat Connecticut Y
Lincoln Democrat Arkansas Y
Lott Republican Mississippi Y
Lugar Republican Indiana Y
McConnell Republican Kentucky Y
Mikulski Democrat Maryland Y
Murkowski Republican Alaska Y
Nelson (NE) Democrat Nebraska Y
Obama Democrat Illinois Y
Pryor Democrat Arkansas Y
Roberts Republican Kansas Y
Rockefeller Democrat West Virginia Y
Salazar Democrat Colorado Y
Santorum Republican Pennsylvania Y
Sessions Republican Alabama Y
Shelby Republican Alabama Y
Smith Republican Oregon Y
Snowe Republican Maine Y
Specter Republican Pennsylvania Y
Stabenow Democrat Michigan Y
Stevens Republican Alaska Y
Talent Republican Missouri Y
Thomas Republican Wyoming Y
Thune Republican South Dakota Y
Vitter Republican Louisiana Y
Voinovich Republican Ohio Y
Warner Republican Virginia Y
NAYS--26
Biden Democrat Delaware N
Boxer Democrat California N
Carper Democrat Delaware N
Chafee Republican Rhode Island N
Clinton Democrat New York N
Corzine Democrat New Jersey N
Dodd Democrat Connecticut N
Feingold Democrat Wisconsin N
Feinstein Democrat California N
Gregg Republican New Hampshire N
Jeffords Independent Vermont N
Kennedy Democrat Massachusetts N
Kerry Democrat Massachusetts N
Kyl Republican Arizona N
Lautenberg Democrat New Jersey N
Leahy Democrat Vermont N
Martinez Republican Florida N
McCain Republican Arizona N
Murray Democrat Washington N
Nelson (FL) Democrat Florida N
Reed Democrat Rhode Island N
Reid Democrat Nevada N
Sarbanes Democrat Maryland N
Schumer Democrat New York N
Sununu Republican New Hampshire N
Wyden Democrat Oregon N
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