I went looking to see who pays the bills for Drill Here Drill Now, which appears to be some sort of grassroots organization. I expected to find some slightly fuzzy link to "big oil," but instead I found it, as well as it's parent organization (American solutions for winning the future), and it's leader, Newt Gingrich, are funded primarily by Sheldon Adelson, a casino magnate, the third richest American, and a conservative "philanthropist." Adelson also bankrolls Freedom’s Watch, which was founded primarily as a pro-Iraq-war organization and which has gotten deeply into partisan politics. So, it seems that DHDN’s real aim is partisan politicking, not so much lower gas prices.
Scary thing is the DHDN petition has 1.5 million signatures, and NPR reported thismorning that Democrats in Congress were starting to jump on the bandwagon. Seems a lot of folks don't understand that we simply don't have enough domestic oil to satisfy our needs. Hence the need for energy alternatives...duh.
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http://www.alaskawild.org/news-and-events/fact-sheets
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Update from NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/20/148939665/for-a-personal-cause-casino-owner-bets-on-gingrich
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