Please drop what you're doing because here we go again. Senate leaders
are 
again exploiting rising gas prices to rush a bill to the floor that
would 
destroy the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and boost oil industry
profits. The 
vote could come as early as Tuesday.

The Senate front men for Big Oil are doing their damnedest to convince 
Americans that sacrificing the Arctic and sending each of us a $100
rebate 
check will solve all our problems at the pump.

There's only one way to expose these lies and prevent the sacrifice of 
America's greatest wildlife refuge: Help light up the Senate switchboard
today!

Please call your two Senators right now:
Senator Paul Sarbanes: (202) 224-4524
Senator Barbara Mikulski: (202) 224-4654

Tell them to vote NO on the Gas Price Relief and Rebate Act. Tell them
you will 
not trade the Arctic Refuge for $100 or be fooled by policies that do
nothing 
to solve the real problem of America's dangerous dependence on oil. Urge
them 
to get to work on cutting oil consumption by improving the mileage of
our cars 
and promoting clean and renewable energy.

Here are the facts: the Energy Department says that drilling in the
Arctic 
Refuge would save consumers only one penny per gallon at the pump in 20
years! 
Meanwhile, anyone who drives will be forced to take the Senate's $100
rebate 
check -- paid for with our tax dollars -- and sign it over to ExxonMobil
for 
their next two tanks of gas.

Only an oil company could love a bill that picks the taxpayers' wallets
for $12 
billion in gas money. The Gas Price Relief and Rebate Act should really
be 
called the "Guaranteed Profits for Big Oil Act!"

Remember: these are the same Senators who passed a pro-polluter energy
bill 
last summer that refused to make America's gas-guzzlers more
fuel-efficient, 
but instead doled out billions of tax dollars to oil and coal companies.
This 
latest bill is just more of the same corporate welfare.

Call your Senators right now and tell them you will not surrender the
Arctic 
Refuge or line the pockets of the oil companies with your tax dollars.

And if you want to do even more to expose and defeat this shameless
bill, go to 
https://www.nrdcactionfund.org/arctic/donate.asp
right now and make a donation so we can escalate this campaign in
defense of 
the Arctic Refuge over the next critical days. Thank you!

Sincerely,

Robert Redford
NRDC Action Fund