I say drill

This is a letter I sent to Greta Van Susteren 11/27/10:

Dear Greta,


The way the guest you were hosting the evening of Thanksgiving day was expressing himself seemed to indicate that he was not only against drilling for oil in ANWAR but everywhere else in the U. S. and that we have the means right now to eschew any need to use oil for our energy needs. The most optimistic forecast I've heard about that day coming about is that it is still decades away.

I wish I could do more than just imagine how well off we'd be if we could get past the radical environmentalists and those that want to placate them.  If we could make use of the rich supply of oil we have in almost all areas of the U. S. and offshore until renewable sources are developed for our energy needs we could not only have what we need instead of being reliant on foreign hostile nations but would be competitors on the world market. For one thing, our debt to China could be paid off by this generation instead of passing it on to our children. By making the price attractive enough to be taking it from us they could be paying for it by crediting it to our debt. The down side to that of course, if it is a down side, is that the price of a barrel of oil would soon be back down to fifteen dollars a barrel instead of the current price of over eighty dollars.  But with the revival of the economy we'd be able to go the rest of the way paying them with hard currency.

A program I was watching not too long ago that might have been a National Geographic production indicated that not only are the caribous increasing in number in the Arctic but they are nesting along the raised pipelines that are bringing oil to the lower 48. They were showing a bear walking the pipeline like it was a more comfortable walkway for where he wanted to go.  I wonder if the most endangered among us are not the caribous and bear but the lifestyle of the U. S. homo sapien.