Open Letter from Al Gore

Friends,

I've been deeply frustrated. I suspect a lot of you have been too. We're facing such huge challenges and all you hear through the media are demagogic chants like "drill, drill, drill."

Skyrocketing energy prices. The climate crisis. Unraveling financial markets. Wars that just happen to be in places with a lot of oil. These are all just different faces of exactly the same thing. We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. And every bit of that has to change.

We all know what we have to do. Ask anybody on the street and they'll tell you. We need to “Repower America”—invest in ourselves, here at home, with clean, economical energy technologies that we know work. And be the global leader as these technologies take off around the world.

Ask anyone, and they'll also tell you why it isn't happening: the oil and coal lobbies—and the politicians who do their bidding.

It's very simple.

• Repower America with wind and solar.
• End our dependence on foreign oil. Build a stronger economy.

So why are we still stuck with dirty and expensive energy? Because big oil spends hundreds of millions of dollars to block clean energy. Lobbyists, ads, even scandals. All to increase their profits, while America suffers. Breaking big oil's lock on our government ... Now that's change.

Now is the time for us to say, "We're the American people and we approve this message."

Here at www.wecansolveit.org we're taking on the oil and coal lobbies, because there's simply no other choice. We need your help.