Environmentalists stop all the drilling

Unbelievable, gas at $4-plus per gallon. We can thank a majority of the Democrats in Congress who kneel at the altar of the radical environmentalist. The result of their action is no off-shore drilling, East, West or South. There is a report that China, at the behest of Cuba or Venezuela, plans on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Also, we are not allowed to drill for a known oil reserve in Alaska in order to protect the caribou, who incidentally feed, keep warm, and propagate alongside the Purdue Bay oilfield pipeline.

This same group looks negatively at recovering oil found under shale deposits out West, which experts estimate would fill our needs for up to 200 years. They are adverse to building new refineries, and to converting coal to oil. To date, the only response to the problem is: ethanol with all the baggage it carries. “My oh my!” This same group resists nuclear power. France obtains 80 percent of its electrical energy needs from nuclear generation and the beat goes on.

One member of Congress, speaking before a group of oil company executives recently, shamefully blamed President Bush for the energy mess in spite of the above-stated facts, when it is he and his cohorts who hold us hostage. So, when you next fill up, remember who you should hold accountable.

RAY DORBOLO

Everett