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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: Thursday, July 24, 2008 ENERGY We must start to lessen the demand In editorials on July 15 and 17, the Herald editorial staff got it mostly right. 1. Visionary leadership is called for if we are to weather the rough seas ahead. 2. Our Republican president and presidential candidate are not only pandering to a public desperate for relief from rising fuel prices, but are deliberately deceiving them into believing it is possible to drill our way to lower prices. Two letter writers on Sunday and Monday are simply victims of the right-wing echo chamber, and not to be blamed for their ignorance. Missing from almost all discussions on this subject is the cold hard truth alluded to by T. Boone Pickens, who says, "... this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of." In other words, there is no supply side solution to our energy problems. Adjustments on the demand side are necessary. It has been known since at least 1956 that a global peak in oil production was coming, after which an inevitable decline would occur. In the beginning, only a few people recognized this fact, while others denied and even ridiculed it. The number has grown steadily, increasing rapidly in recent years. But we are still in the minority. Many who know are still in the denial camp, maybe because they just don't want to be the bearers of such bad news. But now it's time for us all to come to terms with reality. Solar, wind, tidal, geothermal and certain biofuels will help, but will by no means replace our diminishing supplies of oil and natural gas. Regrettably we will probably increase the use of coal and nuclear, even at risk of climate catastrophe. But learning to use less is the only true solution. Let's get to it. Jackie Minchew Everett

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