Our Mission
America needs a bold new energy policy for the 21st Century.
The New Apollo Energy PAC helps elect leaders to Congress who will assist in moving us forward on a new energy policy that creates jobs, strengthens our national security by making us less dependent on foreign oil, and addresses global warming.
We are operating under an energy policy for the 19th Century, and if President Bush has his way, he'll take us back another century. This policy is only serving to quench our thirst for oil and leave us falling behind other countries in the development of cleaner energy technologies. The cost of maintaining this addiction - in defense expenditures, in the lives of our soldiers, in pollution, in the health of our citizens, and in lost economic development opportunities - is enormous.
The alternative is to take control of our energy future by investing in new and developing technologies and making the production, distribution, and consumption of energy cleaner and more efficient. This alternative has taken shape in Congress as the New Apollo Energy Project.
The New Apollo Energy Project captures the spirit of the bold challenge John F. Kennedy posed to our nation in 1961 - to put a man on the moon in ten years. By harnessing the same can-do, entrepreneurial spirit of the American people, the New Apollo Project will help us tackle some of the world's toughest problems.
Our Strategy
The time to move forward on a new energy future for America is now.
Jobs, national security, and the environment are important to voters heading into the 2004 elections, and the New Apollo Project addresses all three of these issues. Polling indicates overwhelming public support for the program, particularly among blue-collar workers in vital battleground states.
The laws of economics, the laws of physics, and the laws of politics are aligned, and we must seize this opportunity to move forward. The New Apollo PAC will help set the stage to change the direction of our energy policy in the next Congress and build nationwide support for the New Apollo Energy Project by supporting candidates who will help us move forward.
By acting together and targeting close races, we can send a message to Congress that we're expecting them to lead the way towards a new energy future.
Letter from Jay Inslee
40 years after President John F. Kennedy went before a joint session of Congress and posed a bold challenge to our nation, a new but similar challenge is being issued to take control of our future.
