Dennis Kucinich: “our Nation is faced with an unprecedented challenge in global warming. Saving the planet will undoubtedly require us to…”

“our Nation is faced with an unprecedented challenge in global warming. Saving the planet will undoubtedly require us to drastically curtail our use of fossil fuels. The CDC recently said, ``Climate change is perhaps the largest looming public health challenge we face.'' There are solutions available now, like conservation; efficiency; development of alternative energy, wind, solar, geothermal, green hydrogen. Congress is going to need to facilitate the transition to clean energy in the future. Instead, the response of this Congress is to open up 6 million acres of protected area in the Gulf of Mexico to drilling for oil and gas. In other words, with this bill the response is more of the same of yesterday's destructive energy portfolio. Wake up, Congress. Step into the 21st century of sustainable energy. Save our natural resources. Protect our environment. Save our planet. Or we are going to have more toxic air pollution, more fouling of the waters of the United States on which entire industries like fishing and tourism depend; and more global warming, more monopoly control of our energy by oil companies, more price gouging by oil companies, more record profits to the oil companies. In fact, this bill deprives the Federal treasury of $170 billion, further deepening our deficit. The government is subsidizing the oil companies, who are gouging the public, taking huge profits, while exploiting natural resources which belong to the people.”