[PDI] So pro-oil they'd sacrifice our troops

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Dear Daniel,

Here's the most direct proof yet that Republicans care more about
protecting Big Oil than *anything* else — even our national security and
our troops:

* Republicans in Congress are working to block the military from developing
biofuels that will save lives and save money by reducing the military's
dependence on oil.*1

This is brazen — even for the GOP. As Congress works to finalize the
defense budget, we need to call out Republicans' attempts to keep the
military locked into dirty, dangerous energy.

* Tell Republicans: Stop forcing the military to use dirty energy. Click
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We know that as a whole, our dependence on oil is a threat to our national
security and well-being, both in terms of our dependence on hostile regimes
and the rapid escalation of climate change.

* But for the military, the costs of oil dependence are far more acute. One
in eight troop casualties in Iraq came as a result of protecting fuel
convoys, according to a 2009 study by the military.2 And the rising price
of oil will put the military more than $3 billion over budget this year,
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said earlier this month.*3

So it only makes sense that the military, as our nation's largest and most
demanding energy user, would seek alternatives to ever more costly
fossil-fuel, whose transportation and defense represents a clear point of
vulnerability for our soldiers. Everyone from the President, to military
leadership4, to the airline industry5 agrees.

But not the oil-money soaked Republican party. Earlier this month, the
House passed a 2013 defense budget which included provisions that would
block the military from purchasing, developing and even testing biofuels.
And last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee — with the help of Dirty
Democrats Sens. Jim Webb and Joe Manchin — followed suit.6 But if we raise
enough pressure, there's still time to strike these provisions from the
final bill on the Senate floor.

* Tell Republicans: Stop forcing the military to use dirty energy. Click
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Republicans claim these provisions are about the costs of alternative
fuels, but immediately undermined that hollow claim by passing a resolution
to promote the use of expensive and filthy coal-to-liquid fuel.

It is literally sick that oil industry campaign contributions to
Republicans could so successfully maintain the vicious cycle of our
continued dependence on oil, which creates the need to engage with hostile
nations, which endangers our troops in military operations, which require
even more fossil fuel transported at higher costs and greater risk to
military personnel, (all while speeding catastrophic climate change.)

* Republicans love to talk about "supporting the troops." We need to remind
them that that should mean our soldiers in harm's way, not oil industry
lobbyists.*

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Thanks for fighting our dependence on dirty oil.

Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets
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1. "Republicans try to force the military to use dirty energy it doesn't
want <http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6893342&id=41081-2914033-KD9Y_ax&t=12>,"
Grist, 5/29/12
2. "For the military clean energy saves
lives<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6893343&id=41081-2914033-KD9Y_ax&t=13>,"
CNN, 8/17/11
3. "Panetta warns climate change having 'dramatic impact' on national
security<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6893344&id=41081-2914033-KD9Y_ax&t=14>,"
The Hill, 5/4/12
4. "15 Military Leaders Who Say Climate Change Is A National Security
Threat<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6895276&id=41081-2914033-KD9Y_ax&t=15>,"
Media Matters, 5/30/12
5. "Airlines, Farm Groups Petition Senate for Military
Biofuels<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6893345&id=41081-2914033-KD9Y_ax&t=16>,"
Clean Technica, 5/26/2012
6. "Senate blocks biofuel development in draft defense
bill<http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/budget-approriations/229573-senate-blocks-biofuel-development-in-draft-defense-bill->,"
5/25/12
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