PRESS RELEASE:

Chesapeake, VA—Over a span of just eight days and with minimal funding, a grassroots petition to Stop Climate Alarmism and the coming $1.2 trillion Carbon Tax rallied more signers than Al Gore’s highly-touted $300 million ad blitz.

“Despite the media’s spin and Al Gore’s rants, many Americans don’t believe the Climate Alarmist agenda and strongly oppose the coming $1.2 trillion Carbon Tax,” says Steve Elliott, President of Grassfire.org. “I think it is significant that, over a span of eight days, our petition rallied more signers than Al Gore’s effort which included expensive ad buys and has been heavily promoted by the media. People are beginning to question the coming $1.2 trillion Carbon Tax.”

Gore’s “Alliance for Climate Protection” launched its $300 million blitz on March 31, and claims “over 1 million” signers to its petition. It has added less than 100,000 since Grassfire launched its petition. Elliott says many citizens are becoming skeptical of a new government taxing scheme to solve a debatable crisis, especially in the current economic climate. “With the mortgage crisis, rising gas prices and a tightening economy, the last thing we need is another massive government bureaucracy that will stifle the economy, take more of our money and control more of our lives.”

The goal of the petition, says Elliott, is to “give citizens who oppose Climate Alarmism and the $1.2 trillion Carbon Tax a voice in the upcoming Congressional debate. We could be on the leading edge of a grassroots counter insurgency against the so-called ‘consensus’ of Climate Alarmism.”

Elliott also notes that Grassfire’s petition ironically is, by Gore’s own standards, the more eco-friendly. “Since I’m certain that the ‘carbon footprint’ of our campaign is much smaller that Gore’s, our campaign is actually better for the environment.” View the petition here.

For more information about Grassfire.org, or to schedule an interview with Grassfire President Steve Elliott, contact Ron De Jong at 757-487-7900 or email Ron De Jong

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