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Action #1: Let’s Go, Joe! Ask Biden to use his executive powers to invoke the Defense Production Act.

Option #1: You can use this form from Indivisible National here: https://act.newmode.net/action/indivisible-project/email-president-biden-and-tell-him-declare-national-climate-emergency

Option #12: (indivisibles.f.) Sample email to Biden: We are united behind you in supporting Ukraine’s fight against Putin’s invasion, and applaud your bold action in getting our allies to join the US in releasing 60 million barrels from strategic petroleum reserves. Unfortunately, in spite of your direct appeals to oil company executives to help the world curb Putin’s aggression, oil prices at the pump continue to rise. 

It’s time to use your authority under the Defense Production Act to issue executive orders to address this crisis:

• Bring down energy prices by declaring a National Climate Emergency and invoking the Defense Production Act to both increase the production of renewable energy and “combat and prohibit hoarding and price gouging with respect to those [oil and gas] resources” as the Trump administration did regarding PPE during the pandemic, and
• Use the DPA to increase production of renewable energy, convert all federal vehicles to electric power, including postal vehicles, and steer the nation’s economy away from dependence on fossil fuels.
• Save tens of thousands of lives annually by updating and strengthening clean air and water protections.
• Require new residential and public construction to incorporate electric charging stations.

We also ask you to make additional releases from the strategic oil reserve to counter shortage-caused price spikes as needed. That’s the main purpose of the strategic reserve; now is the time to use it.

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