New Repower America Ad: After 40 Years of Talk, It's Time to 'Do Right'

New Repower America Ad: After 40 Years of Talk, It's Time to 'Do Right'

Underscores Job Creation and Responsibility to Next Generation: 'What are we waiting for?'

WASHINGTON, June 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Alliance for Climate Protection today released a new national television ad, "Do Right," encouraging Americans to support the path away from foreign oil and toward clean energy now.

Every president since Richard Nixon has called for an energy policy less reliant on foreign sources. Now, the ad says, is the best time for us to act to ensure our country develops clean energy sources that protect our planet and our national security -- and creates jobs when the country is in need of a sustainable economic recovery.

"Forty years we've been talking about how we've got to stop being held hostage by foreign oil," says a familiar face from previous Repower America spots at the start of the ad, entitled "Do Right."

"Well, we're still borrowing money to buy oil from dictators who don't like us and burning it in ways that kill God's green earth," he continues. "Why don't we use our own clean energy and create good paying jobs here instead of sending billions overseas?"

"Scientists, economists, and Wall Street have said again and again that repowering America with clean energy jobs is the catalyst we need to activate a sustainable economic recovery," said Alliance for Climate Protection President and CEO Maggie Fox. "Military and foreign policy experts have said, in ever-louder voices, that America's national security depends on ending our addiction to oil. Expanding the clean energy sector now can help us achieve both goals."

"It's no secret that our economy can no longer rely on the dirty fuels of the past and their unpredictable price fluctuations," Fox said. "Embracing this new direction on energy will take bold leadership, and it is up to us to make the right choices now, instead of leaving opportunities for job creation and greater national security lying on the table. We have no time to lose."

"Do Right" concludes with a forward-looking note: "We can either go down the same old dead end path or finally do right by our kids. What are we waiting for?"

To view the new Repower America ad and for more information on the plan to Repower America, visit www.repoweramerica.org.

About Repower America:

The Alliance for Climate Protection, through Repower America, is educating the American people through scientific facts of the importance and urgency of adopting and implementing effective and comprehensive solutions for the climate crisis.

Full text of "Do Right":

Forty years now we've been talking about how we've got to stop being held hostage by foreign oil.

Well, we're still borrowing money to buy oil from dictators who don't like us and burning it in ways that kill God's green earth.

Why can't we use our own clean energy and create good paying jobs here instead of sending billions overseas?

Now we can either go down the same old dead end path or finally do right by our kids.

What are we waiting for? Repower America. It's time to get real.

Source: Alliance for Climate Protection

CONTACT: Julia Payne or Giselle Barry of the Alliance for Climate
Protection, +1-202-628-1999, press@climateprotect.org

Web Site: http://www.climateprotect.org/
http://www.repoweramerica.org/

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