As are many Americans in our beloved USA, my husband and I are struggling to make ends meet at this moment and we are both not well people.   Much of our combined income is used to pay our mortgage due partially to our excessive property taxes (which is more than are dang mortgage) and partially because of our current income.   I have a few disabilities that limit any full-time employment. I am trying to go back to some sort of part-time employment but it is slow going.   A few years ago, my poor husband was laid-off after 30 years of faithful service and had to start his career at square-one.  Fortunately, his New Employers appreciate him because he does his job well, plays by the rules and gets along well with others, which is more than I can say for the Elementary School Kids, we elected to represent us! (Our side did not win many Senate or House seats let alone the Presidency, bummer)!! Well one can't have everything can one, but gee whiz, a small break would be nice! 

In Summary: Though I am against the Auto Company Bailout, I am not totally heartless, if you can do a structured bailout with a real logical plan of action and not just throw money from the dome of the Capitol then perhaps I will reconsider.  Now mind you, it must be a real working plan not the Moonlight Madness Shopping Spree.   In the meantime, go to all parties involved, from union leaders, employee representatives, and the company suits, put them in a big room and flip a coin or arm wrestle and nobody leaves the room until you guys reach a plan. 

Happy Holidays, God Bless and My Best to You All. 

I am a moderate conservative republican and I cannot logically support the cap and trade bill. It severely limits our economy and our autonomy as a nation and places all power into the hands of the environmental lobbyists and foreign investors. Without careful thought and a logical plan, it places our economy at further risk by throwing us headfirst into an ethanol- Al Gore-controlled abyss. 

The gas situation is out of hand. People cannot afford gas to fuel their vehicles, they have children, families, they are responsible to buy food, take them to the doctors, school, to work. Not only do they ask the question, gas, food, doctor which to I give-up this week but how long will this problem continue.

Winter's a comin' folks.  Please realize there are still many people who use oil to heat their homes in the winter, many of which have not the finances to switch to gas, solar, windmill, let alone other energy sources that are still under the development.  This winter will be very foreboding towards those families and the elderly who have NO RESOURCES.

Petroleum products are currently used in the medical and pharmaceutical industries and other industries as well. Please Congress reconsider this bill. Vote for a bill that supports natural resource exploration and advanced drilling and mining technologies.

I am certain that instead of fighting the US Oil-Industries that we work together to hear their ideas and plans. They have the experience, does Congress, can Congress even change a light bulb?    Better yet let the people vote.  Put a referendum on the ballot and let us decide!

I would advise careful, thoughtful, slower implementation of these new energy plans. Think about it; we already receive unjustified criticisms for not providing enough food to developing nations can you imagine now that we are shifting our energies to produce grains for ethanol how much more justified whining we will endure. Do you have an idea how much grain you need to make ethanol and the safety of inhaling prolonged highly condensed, ethanol fumes? I heard one natural resources person who must be in some form of extreme denial, state that absolutely there will be no drilling in the USA. I did so want to shake her to wake her up and tell her: Look Lady, CENTRALIA, PA is still smoldering and releasing all kinds of noxious coal gases into the air since 1962 or so. that is over 40 years of pollutants. Hey Lady, are you aware of that.   So please if I do not run, rush or sprint (let alone limp) to the Al Gore global hysteria-message.  I just do not buy it. There is so much more information that points to climate change as a matter of natural causes like the SUN. 

Other oil concerns we have. China and Russia are engaging in slant drilling some 50 or so miles from our coast for Cuba no-less and WE ARE NOT ALLOWED. You must be aware there are safe and low-ecology-impacting ways of drilling for oil. Just look at the technologies, Arctic Power of Alaska has developed and used on the North Slope. The oil-drilling footprint has become much smaller. 

In short, I believe we are being misled.  I consider myself an environmentalist. God did give us this planet and He told us to "Subdue and Dominate the Earth". We are to "Good Stewards of the Earth and not destroy it. However, He did not desire us to be doormats to other nations, especially hostile ones; uninformed American Bureaucrats, and frightened Citizens who do not know any better then to believe the Global Warming Hysteria or wish to ruin our country by way of destroying our economy. 

We refuse to be uni-partisan, bi-partisan, tri-partisan or enviro-marxist-faciast-partisan, PAWNS anymore! That is it!  Enough is enough!  We are mad as HADES and we will not take it anymore!  We will write, phone, protest, sign petitions, until we disappear.  So GET with the program if you value your RE-ELECTION!

Sorry Folks, If the tone of my letter seems a lttle rough.  I mean no-disrespect. Moreover, I am sorry but many of us feel this way.

Sincerely,