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<< Previous   of   Next >>   ADVERTISEMENT   HAVE YOUR SAY Feel strongly about something? Share it with the community by writing a letter to the editor. You’ll need to include your name, address and daytime phone number. (We’ll only publish your name and hometown.) We reserve the right to edit letters, but if you keep yours to 300 words or less, we won’t ask you to shorten it. If your letter is published, please wait 30 days before submitting another. Send it to: E-mail: letters@heraldnet.com Mail: Letters section The Herald P.O. Box 930 Everett, WA 98206 Fax: 425-339-3458 Have a question about letters? Contact Carol MacPherson (cmacpherson@heraldnet.com or 425-339-3472).   Published: Sunday, July 20, 2008 OIL Call on Congress to lift drilling ban Regarding the Tuesday editorial "Call for more drilling a cheap ploy for votes": Instead of using the intelligence and statistical evidence available to The Herald's editorial board to draw a learned conclusion for calling for oil exploration and the subsequent reductions in gas prices, it decided to blame Republican leaders in the White House, Congress and John McCain for "pitching a flawed, misleading plan to stem the rise in gasoline prices." Not once did The Herald call on the Democratic-controlled Congress to get off its lazy butts and face reality and remove the ban on drilling, as President Bush did the other day. Although alternatives for energy are being developed, none of them can assume any kind of load that will immediately reduce our need for oil in our economy. So while Congress is standing in the way of starting to return the economy to some normalcy, the main fuel that drives cars, trucks, road construction, transportation, jobs and food prices is being held hostage by the Democrat-controlled Congress for strictly political purposes. This nation cannot maintain an artificially imposed reduction in economic activity until some alternatives fully come on line in several years that will replace gasoline. If we are forced to wait much longer, our way of life, as we know it, may not recover for many years. However, just by removing the drilling ban across this country and allowing us to do what the nation does best, there will be a psychological change in the oil futures market and will subsequently lower the gas price until the world markets see the confirmation that the USA has recovered. Gerald Schackman Arlington

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