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A July 16 letter writer excoriated Darrell Ehrlick for his “liberal” energy views. “You liberals did … did not do.” That epistle was akin to a child’s temper tantrum. Cat-calls offer no valid arguments nor solutions.
Saying one’s energy views depict them as liberal is poppycock — John McCain flipped on the issue; this conservative now backs drilling — he flopped for votes.
Worse, being narrow-minded, regardless of political leanings, ill-serves all. Trite but true: Liberals love America and believe improving it (changing) means liberty and peace will flourish.
It has been quite easy to illustrate how America’s economic mess — partly rooted in previous administrations — was blindly exacerbated by current White House hip-shooters and the Congress of the last seven plus years. No getting around that.
“Liberal is bad?” Please!
Conservatives, with their history of resisting alternative energy, dare throw stones?
Did liberals create the current American banking debacle and looming depression?
George W. Bush and Herbert Hoover: “Things are sound.”
Just what is bad about retreating — in earnest — from harmful habits? Keep doing the same things and the status remains quo. The point being, seeking alternative transportation energy sources is now so starkly obvious not doing so is economic suicide.
It matters not that Artic National Wildlife Refuge is unspoiled or that offshore drilling may produce more natural gas or petrochemicals aid manufacturing. What matters are unwarranted efforts to stay on a killer oil habit. Talk about Drug War stubbornness.
That a few politicians serve oil-loving constituents is understandable, but saying those pushing to kick the oil habit are bad liberals or created the problem is plain foolishness. Oil demand exceeds production capacity and demand is accelerating.
Today’s transportation mode is not important, tomorrow’s is.
Change or perish. How simple is that, even for luddites?
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