SmartGreenUSA Supports No More Excuses Energy Act H.R. 3089!
By Patrick Hughes
SmartGreenUSA

Drilling for Oil in the USA & Removing Foreign Oil Dependence is Smart!

There is a way to get gas prices to decline!!!

SmartGreenUSA urges you to take action and support the discharge petition introduced by Rep. Tim Walberg (R- MI) to force a vote on a bill to increase U.S. energy production and invest in alternative sources of energy. The appropriately named No More Excuses Energy Act, H.R. 3089, would increase the supply of energy produced in America and begin to break our dependence on foreign oil.

Speaker Pelosi refuses to bring this bill to the House floor, a discharge petition is the only way to force a vote on this legislation. House rules state that a discharge petition must have 218 signatures (a simple majority) in order to bring a bill to the floor for a vote, and Rep. Tim Walberg is working hard to bring both Democrats and Republicans together in support of this bill. Currently the petition has 139 signatures. 

SmartGreenUSA wants you to think sensibly.  Energy is the lifeblood of America and oil is the cheapest way to get it.  The solution is not to price gasoline out of our reach, forcing many to choose between food or fuel, while plunging our economy into chaos.  The real solution is literally right under our noses, or rather under our feet.  Right here in the US we have oil, plenty of it, but your government over the last three decades took it away from you. 

SmartGreenUSA demands that breaking the U.S. dependence on foreign oil become a national priority. Congress needs to allow an increase in America’s investment in our overall production of energy.

Despite fuel costs at record levels, liberal Democrat Leadership in Congress refuses to increase American energy production. Instead, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and leading House Democrats would rather increase taxes on domestic energy production and increase our reliance on OPEC. We need leadership that is willing to take action.

No More Excuses Energy Act, (H.R. 3089) would immediately open up ANWR in Alaska for environmentally sensitive oil exploration. According to recent estimates, today America would receive one million barrels of oil per day from ANWR if President Clinton had not blocked exploration in 1996.

One of the biggest oil reservoirs in the world is in America, on our soil.  Not in some far away place but literally in the middle of our country.  In our Rocky Mountains alone, there is over three times the oil in Saudi Arabia. 

That’s not all the oil we are standing on. In April headlines read “Billions of gallons of oil in North Dakota, Montana: Geological Survey calls find largest reserves outside Alaska”  A shale formation stretching across North Dakota and Montana that has an estimated 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil.

Outer-continental shelf exploration, new refineries, wind, natural gas and new nuclear power plants are also covered in this legislation. This bill would return much of our energy production back to the United States and create good paying American jobs, instead of sending hundreds of billions of dollars overseas to prop up countries like Venezuela that are opposed to American ideals.

America cannot afford continued inaction by Congress, and we need to increase American oil and gas production in the short-term while we invest in new, clean American-made alternative energies in the long-term. Many in Congress may gloss over the current energy crisis in America, the majority of Americans cannot. The American people believe in expanding our American energy supply and developing alternatives to break our dependence on foreign oil. It is time Congress agrees and acts.

For our future,

Patrick Hughes