We must end our reliance on foreign oil and the dictators who control the supply. This is essential to reverse global climate change, making us more secure and strengthening our economy.

I support Jeff Merkley's plan to invest in renewable energy, which includes: 

• Setting a 25% renewable energy standard by 2025. Under Jeff's leadership, Oregon adopted this 25% standard - one of the highest in the nation.  Jeff will push to make this the national standard.  By adopting this new standard we will pump billions of dollars into investments in clean energy sources such as wind, solar and bio fuels.  We can fund these investments by closing tax loopholes that currently give our tax dollars to big oil companies and redirect these funds back into our economy, creating thousands of jobs.  Congressional Republicans are working day and night to eliminate these standards from the energy bill.  As Oregon's next U.S. Senator, Jeff will fight to keep this from happening.

• Jeff Merkley strongly supports increasing the fuel economy standards for cars driven in the United States to thirty five miles per gallon.  This will save consumers money at the  pump and reduce emissions that cause global warming. In her "Ten-in-Ten Fuel Economy Act",  Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington calls for a 35 mpg fuel economy standard by 2017.  As Oregon's next U.S. Senator, Jeff will work with Senator Cantwell to include these standards in America's energy policy.  

 After signing on to this plan, please don't forget to forward it to five of your friends. Together we can show Gordon Smith and the Republicans in Washington that we're serious about this issue--and about winning in 2008.