Army,
Nine months ago we started marching toward a goal that no one believed we could reach: We made America’s dependence on foreign oil a major (and until the economy collapsed, the central) topic in the campaign for President of the United States, U.S. Senate, and U.S. Congress.
Every candidate was talking about sending $700 billion overseas to pay for oil. Every debate had a question about what the candidates would do to cut down on the need to import nearly 70 percent of oil. Senator Obama said at least twice that if elected he would take steps to completely eliminate oil imports from the Middle East.
We won that one. Now we’re into the other side of the equation: Getting the Congress and the Administration to build an energy policy which will accomplish what President Obama – and every other candidate – promised: Reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
I’m calling this “Election Day Part II” and we are going to be just as successful as we were leading up to Election Day Part I.
Election Day Part II begins with the Virtual March on Washington April 1, 2 and 3.
This is even more important than what we accomplished on Election Day Part I because we can’t let Washington let this moment go by and have 2009 become another year in the 40-year run when we’ve had no energy plan.
Let’s use the momentum we’ve built over the past nine months to push this over the finish line.
Click here and join me in making the Virtual March the most important on-line event in history.
— Boone