Join us in calling for the end to the era of oil

http://www.gulfdeclaration.com/

Dear President Obama, members of Congress, and elected leaders of the United States of America,We, the undersigned, recognize your commitment to addressing the Gulf spill but ask you to go still further than you have in your approach. The people of the United States elected you to represent us, and now we ask you to galvanize our nation not only to clean up the oil and to repair the damage but to use this moment to call the American people to our next leap as a country.

This disaster holds the potential to catalyze one of the greatest transformations our nation has known. It illuminates in graphic and brutal terms what we all know in our hearts: we need to end the era of oil as the primary economic foundation for our lives and our country.

The oil economy not only harms the environment. It props up repressive regimes. It inflames wars and provokes violence. Oil is overheating our planet and soiling our lives and it is time to end its reign over people, policies, and planet.

Now is the moment to make an urgent and serious commitment of ingenuity, time, money, and even the soul of this country to create affordable, renewable, and sustainable energy sources at a rate faster than anyone now believes is possible. In short, it is time to rapidly wean ourselves from our addiction to oil before the damage to our planet is too great.

In the 1960s, putting a man on the moon began with an audacious declaration and a seemingly impossible timeline, followed by the marshalling of America's best minds. Further back still, we mobilized our entire country to fight two global wars. And now we need that same level of resolve to mobilize for perhaps a still greater effort: the transformation of our economy. To do so, we will require the same courage to make the sacrifices, commit the resources, and unleash our creative genius.

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