Posted by
Conservabear on Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:00:44 PM
Dear Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Most Democrat and a few Independent and Republican Senators and Representatives:
We have, written, signed petitions, blogged, phoned, protested everything but go on a hunger strike, and bleed a vein, and to this very day, you fail to understand how vitally important it is that we continue to explore and drill for oil in the U.S.
Remember when you cause a problem by raising prices or limiting growth in one area you compound the problem in all other areas as well. It is called the trickle side-ways effect. In this case there may be no trickling at all.
Much is at stake here not just the whims of the Environmental Lobbyists, who won't be affected when we can't afford to heat our homes, or feed or families in the winter. Will they help us when we are freezing? Will they drive our sick children to the doctors. Will they supply the fuel for the Emergency Life Flights to the hospital? Will they invent the new ingredient (replacing petroleum) needed to manufacture pharmaceuticals like topical creams; medical supplies? Distillates are used to make kerosene and diesel fuel and other products we take for granted and are a necessity. Are you willing to pay our heating bills from you own pocket?
Until we perfect or fully develop multiple energy sources our reliance on oil and coal, natural gas and their distillates and by-products must continue. Exploration, drilling and mining must continue in a economically and environmentally responsible manner. Nuclear power plants must be sustained, continued and new plants must be built. Windmills, Solar Power, Fuel Cells, bugs that excrete, oil plants that grow oil beans. even ethanol some of these are still new technologies that have limitations and strengths depending on their location.
The problem with biological renewables is that you need much more space and product and appropriate climate conditions like NO DROUGHT, FLOODS in IOWA etc. Also when you use plants normally used as food you run the risk of starving the very people and animals whose lives depend on NOURISHMENT, which is on-going even as we speak and not just in this country but by other nations in need of our help.
Energy Facilities and Sources are only as safe and as efficient as the folks that run them. I ask you again to allow our US oil companies to explore and drill petroleum without hindrance or penalization. Remove the moratorium.
Remember we always need a Fail-Safe in the event one of these technologies fails and trust me they will and they always do and that is why the back-up resources are needed.
So please folks have a heart, think of those less fortunate then you who can't afford alternative energy sources, hybrid cars, windmills and solar panels and think of us who still use oil furnaces, natural gas, diesel, kerosene, etc.
STOP PUNISHING US!
Sincerely,
Mrs. LMH
"Petroleum, Economic Uses of." World of Earth Science. Ed. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. Gale Group, Inc., 2003. eNotes.com. 2006. 19 Jun, 2008 <http://www.enotes.com/earth-science/
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