USE-PAC: What Can We Do?
What is the U.S. Energy PAC? We are a non-profit 527 organization that has come together for the purpose of promoting public policies that will move the United States toward true energy independence over the coming decade.
You don’t need an organization to tell you what is going on with energy in the marketplace these days, or its effect on the American economy. Just the opposite: you are starkly reminded of it every time you pull up to a gas pump.
We are not the first nor by any means the largest organization seeking the goals of increased production, public education, reasonable public policy towards oil and ultimately the elimination of any American dependence on foreign sources of energy.
However, we are the first and, to our knowledge, only group that seeks to achieve these goals through the time tested methods of direct political action within the context of an election.
Let’s face it. The obstacles to true energy independence for our nation are largely political and ideological in nature.
- There is no shortage of oil on the world market!
- Oil remains the cheapest and most readily available source of energy in the world today.
- Alternative fuels (which we do not oppose) will not become readily available or affordable in the near future.
- The diversion of food stuffs to fuel production is causing sticker shock at the grocery store and food riots in Central America.
- The sharp increase in the price of commodities used for subsidized fuel production has put marginal land back under the plow and damaged vast tracts of wildlife habitat.
- We live in a world, not just a nation, which is oil dependent in so many ways they are almost impossible to count!
When a problem in a republic such as ours is created largely through political action and ideological pressure, then the most direct route to a solution is also through political action.
USE – PAC was created to provide that sort of direct action through the use of independent expenditures to defeat or change the attitudes of elected officials who are standing in the way of increased oil production and a commitment, as a matter of public policy, to USE our own resources to achieve the consensus goal of true energy independence.
To those who would strive to block these efforts we ask this question: Would you really want to solve the perceived problem of despoiling our ecological landscape by blithely wrecking the ecology of other peoples? That hardly seems either fair or moral.
You can help achieve these goals by giving a financial contribution of $25, or what you can afford in these difficult economic times, to cover our costs of materials and efforts to recycle the “Water Boys” out of office.
This site will also help keep you informed by tracking federal legislation which affects oil production in this country and the arguments both for and against those efforts. (Forewarned is forearmed.)
We are also posting regularly updated lists of members of Congress and the kind and amount of financial support they are receiving from two key special interest groups which are dedicated to blocking all efforts at domestic oil production.
Effective and environmentally friendly domestic oil production is easily done, except for onerous regulatory burdens and outright bans.
We have vast reserves of oil right here in the U.S., and we are discovering new fields for production on a regular basis. (The latest being the Bakken Formation in North Dakota which rivals Saudi Arabia for proven reserves.)
Help us lay the ground work for a nation with true energy independence – one that need not worry about the availability of oil on the world market, or the prices driven by that market.
