CaptSquid
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Message Posted: Jun 25, 2008 2:45:27 AM
REAL petitions may work; an electronic petition holds about as much water as a sieve. Politicians want to see actual signatures.
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LanguageMan1
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Message Posted: Jun 25, 2008 1:26:22 AM
Petitions and letters and boycotts do work. The petitions were delivered to Congress before they've taken polls. And they didn't even have half a millioin signatures then. Now I hope they're swamped with letters. And it is working, at least they're talking about it all, now we need to get them to act! I'm going to write another three to five letters this weekend myself. If another 50 to 100 peope were to do that, we might see more drilling and production here, more development of alternative energy and more fuel efficient vehicles on the road.
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gmacsccc
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Message Posted: Jun 24, 2008 10:27:50 PM
YOU CAN FIGHT ALL YOU WANT THE KNOW YOU WILL DRIVE ANYWAY.
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Sealer
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Message Posted: Jun 19, 2008 10:25:06 AM
Petitions are meaningless. Our representatives in congress have access to polls and know that the citizens favor allowing more drilling, but they are unwilling to act. What we need is new representatives, but a petition won't do that.
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CaptSquid
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Message Posted: Jun 19, 2008 7:08:32 AM
LanguageMan1, this topic was moved to Boycott/Gasout Talk AFTER I reported it. It was originally posted in General Gas Talk. And your petition won't work, despite you wishing that it would.
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LanguageMan1
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Message Posted: Jun 19, 2008 4:30:53 AM
CaptSquid, I might be legally blind but THIS IS THE Boycott/Gasout Talk forum!
Saib, it's still one of the most strongly supported ones. I wasn't for drilling in ANWR years ago, and felt it would be good for a rainy day. Well, that rainy day has come. I wasn't for drilling too close to Florida's shores, but 75 to 100 miles is far enough away for me and most of us, especially now. Even with ANWR, it's only a small portion of it, not all of it. Plus, we need to build more refineries as well as drill!
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saib
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Message Posted: Jun 18, 2008 5:49:06 PM
I went to that sight and it was a petition to drill in ANWR. How can you possibly think that petition is our best chance for forcing action? That is just a distraction from the true issue.
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CaptSquid
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Message Posted: Jun 15, 2008 5:15:23 PM
This belongs in BOYCOTT/GASOUT TALKS, not here.
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