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The threat to America’s freedom and national security tied to Big Oil.
By Lisa McCrummen
Saturday, August 22, 2009
The NY Times applauded top military leaders for their efforts to continue to wake up Congress and policy makers to the biggest security threat of our times; global warming. And military leaders have upped the ante, directly linking the US oil consumption and oil dependence to this threat.
That puts all oil, and especially Canada’s dirty oil sands, as America’s public enemy number one if we are to develop a clean energy and climate plan that breaks our addiction to oil, tackles global warming, and enhances our national security.
Big oil is not taking this lightly, it’s lobbying arm American Petroleum Institute is committed to continuing its fake grassroots campaign to try and incite doubt and backlash against addressing global warming and supporting a clean energy economy. Lobbyists are bussing in oil company supporters and barring ordinary citizens.
“I understand firsthand how our dependence on foreign oil is a threat to national security,” said Jon Powers, chief operating officer at the Truman National Security Project, a sponsor of Operation Free. “We’re looking to Washington to take this threat seriously and come up with policy that reduces the threat to national security.”
Greenpeace has been watching the oil industry for twenty-plus years trying to undermine climate progress in a number of ways. They’ve never seen anything like this before.
Kert Davies, Research Director for Greenpeace USA says: “Momentum is very high right now. The Waxman-Markey bill, passed the House. There’s a push towards Copenhagen, a strong chance that there will be international law that is—you know, if global warming is an inconvenient truth for some of us, it’s a big problem for the oil industry.”
US veterans have begun making their voice heard – calling out Big Oil’s orchestrated tour for what it is – an oil dependence tour. (At a recent Texas oil dependence stop, citizens with their American flags were not admitted.)
Has the backlash begun – and will policy makers and American citizen’s wake up and act against the real threat; America’s dependence on oil? The clock is ticking.
Tagged with: greenpeace, american petroleum institute, waxman-markey bill, big oil, truman national security project
