Sierra Club Calls on McCain to Support Americans, not Big Oil

Oil prices too high? Well don't worry. The high prices you are paying at the pumps are going to a good cause: making Oil Companies richer than they ever have been before. And that helps them donate huge amounts of money to Republicans like McCain who then help Big Oil make even MORE money at your expense. Sierra Club has decided to call on McCain to stop hurting America in his eagerness to help Big Oil. This comes from the Sierra Club:

Are you paying $3.50 a gallon for gas? Were you a year ago?

Gas prices are skyrocketing -- and so are Big Oil's profits. In fact, the country's five largest oil companies made a record-breaking $123 billion just last year -- billions more than they were making just a year ago. 1

So what's Senator John McCain's solution?

Raise oil company profits by another 18 cents per gallon -- by eliminating the federal gas tax without guaranteeing that Big Oil won't just keep prices high and take the difference to grow their record profits even more.2

That's the same old outdated politics of the past.

If John McCain really wants to put money back in our pockets, he needs to take it out of Big Oil's. That means voting to cut their subsidies and using that money to help build the clean energy economy.

Will you sign the petition to tell Senator McCain to end giveaways to Big Oil and invest in clean, renewable energy?

Senator McCain is not alone. Republican Senators like Mitch McConnell, Pete Domenici and others are blocking efforts to take back billions in taxpayer-funded giveaways to Big Oil in order to invest in clean, renewable energy.

That's outrageous.

The way to deal with high gas prices is to cut, not expand, giveaways to Big Oil. Shifting to clean, renewable energy will help grow our economy, create over 820,000 new jobs and fight global warming.3

Sierra Club members in Arizona will hand-deliver our message to John McCain's Senate office. Together, we'll tell Senator McCain that what it's really time for is a holiday on the taxpayer-funded giveaways that are helping fuel Big Oil's windfall profits.

Sign the petition here.

Thanks for all you do to protect the planet,

Greg Haegele
Greg Haegele
Director of Conservation

1Center for American Progress, Report on Big Oil's Profits
2"McCain Calls for Summer Holiday from Gas Tax", Boston Globe, April 16, 2008
3Blue-Green Alliance Study on Clean Energy Jobs

I wish the Sierra Club good luck on this. I seriously doubt that McCain will choose the American people over Big Oil. He owes Big Oil too much.