Tell Congress to Extend the Renewable Energy Tax Credit

From Earthjustice

The clean energy tax credit will expire at the end of this year.

Please -- urge Congress to extend it.

For decades, oil and other dirty energy sources have enjoyed subsidies that give them an unfair edge over renewable energy.

The current tax credit for renewable energy generation helps level the playing field a bit, giving clean energy sources a fighting chance to become a more significant alternative to dirty energy.

But the tax credit is set to expire at the end of the year, which would deal a significant setback to efforts to make the transition toward clean energy.

It's time to start moving to a cleaner, affordable, and sustainable energy future. We need you to ask Congress to renew the tax credit for renewable energy generation and to require that more of our nation's electricity come from renewable sources.

Four-dollar-a-gallon gas and rapidly rising global temperatures are a sure sign that we need new alternatives -- but we won't get them if our government continues to stack the deck in favor of dirty and increasingly expensive 19th century power sources.

Please hurry -- we need your comments to your legislators by September 26, when Congress is scheduled to adjourn. So far, 5,802 people have already taken action.

Join Earthjustice and take action now!

ALERT: Call Congress, Support Clean-Energy Bill

An army of auto industry lobbyists is swarming over Capitol
Hill. Their mission? To strangle a clean energy bill in the cradle --
before you and I can enjoy better gas mileage and more renewable
energy.

Your member of Congress needs to hear from thousands of
constituents like you right now -- BEFORE that bill hits the
floor. Your one phone call can do more to counter the auto
lobbyists and deliver a clean energy future than any other
single weapon we've got.

Your representative's staffers will be happy to register your
opinion on the energy bill. Tell them you want a STRONG energy
bill with TWO KEY provisions:

• A guarantee that new passenger vehicles will get an average
  of 35 miles per gallon by 2020.
  
  
• A requirement for utilities to produce 15% of their
  electricity from renewable sources by 2020.

An energy bill with these two centerpiece provisions will cut
America's oil dependence, make a down payment on reducing global
warming pollution, and -- at long last -- usher in a cleaner
energy future.

We've waited two decades for Congress to pass legislation that
could start breaking the chains of our enslavement to the
automakers and Big Oil. We're unlikely to get a second chance
for many years to come.

Please seize this one chance for a clean energy future by
calling your member of Congress today! You can reach legislators
via the Congressional Switchboard at 202-224-3121.