MoveOn.org should stick to its core competencies

MoveOn sent me the following email:

Dear MoveOn member,

As of yesterday, gas prices are the highest in U.S. history—we just passed the 1981 record, even adjusted for inflation. Prices could reach $4.00 per gallon in parts of the country, just in time to crimp summer vacation plans. As consumers suffer, the oil industry continues to reap the windfall—breaking profit records on an almost quarterly basis. It's outrageous!

Enough is enough. Hearings start today on H.R. 1252, a House bill that would make gas price gouging a federal crime, punishable by 10 years in prison. Speaker Pelosi has said she'll move the bill to a vote this week—if there's the two-thirds majority required to fast track the bill through the process.

Oil company lobbyists are frantically trying to stop the bill. Your representative needs to hear from you today. Will you sign our petition asking Congress to pass the price-gouging bill—and then send it to your friends?

"Gasoline price gouging should be made a federal crime before the summer price increases hurt more American families."

I sent them an email in response:

If you care about stopping global warming, you should welcome $4 per gallon gasoline. You should hope the oil companies raise the price to $5 per gallon. If you resent the oil companies for making obscene profits at the expense of "American families" (what, people living alone don't suffer as well?), you should support efforts to raise the tax on gasoline. This way the government, not the oil companies, would get the windfall. Until then, drop this effort and stick to the basics: Iraq, healthcare, etc.

I await their reply.