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Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization created to help expand the dialogue between the energy and consuming sectors to improve understanding of energy security, more effectively develop and use both renewable and oil & gas energy resources in an environmentally conscious manner, create sound energy policy and maintain stable energy prices for consumers.

Help Defeat Efforts to Ban North American Energy, Increases Prices at the Pump!

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The Low-Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) is being sold to the American public as a way to blend transportation fuels with low-carbon alternatives so that tailpipe CO2 emissions can be reduced. But the fact is that affordable and reliable lower-carbon fuel options are not yet available. As a result, an LCFS simply will increase the cost of diesel fuel and gasoline and will place certain domestic supplies of transportation fuels off limits. Increasing the cost of transportation fuel and U.S. dependence upon foreign sources of petroleum is simply unsound energy policy.

While foreign oil producers from some of the least-stable regions of the world may benefit under an LCFS, American consumers would be stuck paying higher prices at the pump.

To learn more about the economic and strategic risks associated with an LCFS, visit www.secureourfuels.org.

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Dear Representative/Senator:

As you may know, efforts are underway in Congress to enact a national Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). I strongly urge you to vote against any bill containing such a proposal. A national LCFS threatens our energy security, and would result in price increases for American families and small businesses during a time of great economic uncertainty.

These energy price increases – tantamount to tax hikes on every American consumer – will delay our economic recovery and exacerbate our unemployment problem.

What’s worse, an LCFS would have serious consequences for America’s long-term energy security, bestowing a competitive edge on unstable nations at the expense of our North American energy trading partners. Increasing our dependence on these unstable regions of the world to meet our energy needs, while discriminating against our North American trading partners, will jeopardize our national security.

If enacted, a national LCFS mandate would effectively preclude American oil shale production and the advancement of clean-coal technology. While we should be doing everything to bring down the cost of energy here at home, this mandate would drive costs up, hurting every single American consumer and small business.

If our national objective is to become less dependent on foreign oil, and to foster the development of alternative and renewable fuels, this is a step in the wrong direction. I strongly urge you to oppose any efforts to advance a Low-Carbon Fuel Standard.

Thank you for your consideration. I will monitor your votes on this critical issue.

Sincerely,

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