David
08-08-2008, 02:59 PM
Oil dependence
Editor:
I have noticed that oil prices are coming down a bit in the past week or so. I even had a friend remark about how "gas prices are really down — they're under $4" (they were actually $3.99).
I believe that we are being manipulated by the Bush administration and their oil company buddies into thinking that the oil crisis isn't really so desperate...that all this talk of renewable energy, sun and wind is still to be relegated to the hysterical left-wing crunchy-granola-types who are over-reacting to the "natural effects" of supply and demand economics.
Don’t you believe it! I believe we are being led to erroneously conclude that things are not so bad using smoke and mirrors so as to very subtly provide support to John McCain, the status-quo candidate.
I believe that until the election is over, things will look as if they are once again under control and that once the new President is elected, the truth will be revealed — just in time for our winter heating season! — that we are in a horrible position: dependent on the oil provided by people who hate us because of our two-term President's policies of skirting the terms of the Geneva convention, as well as subverting our own Constitution.
I hope when deciding who to believe that the people remember that Al Gore didn't get the Nobel Prize for spouting hysterics. Global warming is a reality, as is the oil crisis. Lucky for us, both of these huge issues can be solved with the same creative measures. Our country must lead the way toward the use of renewable energy sources that will go a long way in the fight to stem the one-way trip we are on toward our own demise, as well as ending our dependence on the oil of people who would like to see our country destroyed.
MARY-ANN ELLISON, MERIDEN
Editor:
I have noticed that oil prices are coming down a bit in the past week or so. I even had a friend remark about how "gas prices are really down — they're under $4" (they were actually $3.99).
I believe that we are being manipulated by the Bush administration and their oil company buddies into thinking that the oil crisis isn't really so desperate...that all this talk of renewable energy, sun and wind is still to be relegated to the hysterical left-wing crunchy-granola-types who are over-reacting to the "natural effects" of supply and demand economics.
Don’t you believe it! I believe we are being led to erroneously conclude that things are not so bad using smoke and mirrors so as to very subtly provide support to John McCain, the status-quo candidate.
I believe that until the election is over, things will look as if they are once again under control and that once the new President is elected, the truth will be revealed — just in time for our winter heating season! — that we are in a horrible position: dependent on the oil provided by people who hate us because of our two-term President's policies of skirting the terms of the Geneva convention, as well as subverting our own Constitution.
I hope when deciding who to believe that the people remember that Al Gore didn't get the Nobel Prize for spouting hysterics. Global warming is a reality, as is the oil crisis. Lucky for us, both of these huge issues can be solved with the same creative measures. Our country must lead the way toward the use of renewable energy sources that will go a long way in the fight to stem the one-way trip we are on toward our own demise, as well as ending our dependence on the oil of people who would like to see our country destroyed.
MARY-ANN ELLISON, MERIDEN