The best, perhaps the only, positive thing to come out of the BP oil spill is the heightened awareness of the likely consequences of continuing to rely on a fossil fuel-driven economy.

Watch this hard-hitting video from our friend Robert Greenwald and Brave New Foundation.

Elected officials bought off by oil money need to know they can be held accountable. So sign and share this petition demanding clean energy legislation and an end to extractive drilling. Power Without Petroleum will deliver the signed letter to the elected officials who accepted oil money.