An appeal from wecansolveit.org

Friends,

I've been deeply frustrated. I suspect a lot of you have been too.

We're facing such huge challenges and all you hear through the media are demagogic chants like "drill, drill, drill."

Skyrocketing energy prices. The climate crisis. Unraveling financial markets. Wars that just happen to be in places with a lot of oil. These are all just different faces of exactly the same thing. As I've said in the past, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. And every bit of that has to change.

We all know what we have to do. Ask anybody on the street and they'll tell you. We need to "Repower America" -- invest in ourselves, here at home, with clean, economical energy technologies that we know work. And be the global leader as these technologies take off around the world.

And ask anyone, and they'll also tell you why it isn't happening: the oil and coal lobbies -- and the politicians who do their bidding.

It's very simple.

So the Alliance for Climate Protection has put together an ad that tells this simple story. And we're going to put it on national cable TV.

If we can raise an additional $80,000 online, we'll also put it on 60 Minutes and 20/20 this coming week. Wouldn't that be great?

Can you help? Just go here:

http://www.wecansolveit.org/oilandcoal/