For those concerned about the environment, or anyone else for that fact, voting for environmentally aware candidates can make a difference.
To vote, you need to register if you aren’t already.
Deadlines for registering:
West Virginia — October 14
Ohio — October 6
Pennsylvania — October 6
You can register with the County Clerk at the County Courthouse, but often other places can assist you also like DMV and Military Recruitment centers — calling your local County Clerk would be useful.
Getting your busy and/or apathetic friends to register would be a good outlet for all that pent up environmental activist energy.
Bear in mind that drilling for oil is way more destructive than drilling for natural gas. Drilling for oil in fragile ecosystems like ANWAR and offshore is especially destructive.
An over view of McCain/Obama on drilling in currently protected areas can be found here.
A taste:
“While the psychological effect of opening up new areas to drilling may reduce prices slightly, they could just as easily be increased based on fears of another hurricane smashing into Louisiana and Texas, of Hugo Chavez cutting off oil supplies to the US, or an RPG attack on a tanker in the Persian Gulf.
“The prime beneficiaries of any offshore oil drilling will ultimately be the companies doing the drilling, not the citizens of the United States.”
McCain supports offshore drilling while Obama is mostly opposed. Palin is adamantly for drilling in ANWAR and her husband works for BP, an oil company. Obama is opposed.
More here:
““Drill Baby Drill” Screams Punctuate McCain’s Energy Policy in Acceptance Speech”
