Angie, I imagine you are a very nice, well-meaning person,
but with all due respect, you “tree huggers” are among the main
reasons the cost of gasoline has gotten to the point that many of us can no
longer afford to drive to many of the rides we would love to join. You tree
huggers, and the politicians in your pockets, have opposed at every step the
building of new energy infrastructure, like refineries, off-loading
ports, and nuclear energy so that today we are incredibly vulnerable to
interruptions in our energy supplies brought on by political upheaval in the Mideast and natural calamities such as Katrina here at
home. You say that the modern technology needed to tap into the
vast oil fields of Alaska, off-coast California and Utah
would “rape” these states’ natural resources. But wasn’t
that the same dire warnings you “tree huggers” issued when it came
to building the Alaska Pipeline 30 years ago? All kinds of mean,
nasty things were predicted and almost none ever materialized. According
to the tree huggers, the caribou would no longer be able to migrate, great
swaths of land would be rendered lifeless due to oil spills, etc. etc. Yet,
the caribou are thriving today, along with the rest of Alaska’s wildlife, which coexists with
the pipeline. How is it that in your minds, oil has become so evil, when,
thanks to oil people live longer and better than ever before in history. Maybe
you would like to return to the days when human and animal power were our only
forms of energy. But I bet most of us wouldn’t want to join you.
