Jen Kuznicki
Such a great letter from the Herald-Palladium:
Gasoline – a consumable we love to hate and so misunderstand. Speculators, the Middle East, oil companies, etc., are all cast as culprits. We all long for plentiful and cheap gas, as it would help the economy greatly. Electric cars are seen as the future, but this old idea has been touted for 100 years. Get real.
What irritates me most is that politicians try to use this political football to their advantage. Democrats vilify oil companies and spout fanciful tales about how green energy will save the day, knowing green is suddenly nonviable when subsidies are removed. Republicans push for more oil drilling to create jobs and lower gas prices. I say they both miss the point.
To not see this as an issue of national security is to be blind to reality. We need to be immune from what some crazies in the Middle East threaten to do. America supports a micro-view of my point in the form of the Strategic Oil Reserve. This reserve is inadequate and we should be self-sufficient concerning oil, not so much to create jobs but to assure that we can negate international oil embargo threats.
I believe that prices would come down globally and that we then nullify the potential for a nation like Iran to really hurt us. Republicans are closer to reality on this issue, as they are on most every issue. Democrats’ anti-oil stance has hurt our economy and our pocketbooks so much. Drill baby drill.
Richard Camacho
Berrien Springs
Senator Stabenow, are you listening?
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If ever a connection between national security and drilling existed it is now. It is especially so because we have a weak president dead set on an energy policy that can best be described as an encumbrance to security because it encourages our enemies to test us so at worst it is positively dangerous. Lots of enemies, a weak economy with inherently difficult to remedy entrenched fiscal policy and an energy solution bound to make things worse in the short run is more than imprudent; it is irrational. We cannot fix the economy in the long run unless we act today but we can develop new energy policies while we remain teethed to our proven and sophisticated current technology. Someday we may have nano technology that may replace antibiotic antibacterial current methodology. It would be malpractice to give up antibiotics today before this technology becomes available. To do similarly with current forms of cheap and available energy is either the height of stupidity or another way of looking at treason. We don't have to put up with this. We simply need to vote out the culprits .
The one area that I wish Romney would have ventured into as part of his final debate; or his first debate for that matter is national security and cheap affordable energy and how they are explicitly entangled; especially so at this time.
Energy fuels the economy which fuels the budget which fuels the military. And even more significant than breaking the education unions, at this point in time, is breaking the energy cartels. Those Iranian centrifuges would have stopped spinning a long time ago if sanctions with the help of cheaper oil precluded Iranian oil contracts from purchasing the technology and labor necessary to pursue fissionable uranium. It cost a lot of money to turn yellowcake into U238 and U235. They could never easily do it without the price of oil being where it has been for some time. We are capable of putting more fuel into the market place. You do not need much because it is perception that does most of the work. Speculators will do the rest.