Thursday, August 14, 2008
OPEN LETTER TO SENATOR FEINSTEINThank you for responding to my comments. I am fully aware that drilling in ANWR will not solve our immediate energy problems. It would be a step toward our independence on foreign oil in the future. It buys us more time in which to develop our alternative energy resources. We need to tap our every resource and do so immediately. To delay is to continue to underscore our weakness and deplete our treasury.
My husband and I spent three months in Alaska in 2004. We visited with many native Alaskans, talked with many private citizens and saw the Alaskan pipeline as it snaked across the State into Valdez. We saw first hand the effect that the pipeline has on the citizens of Alaska and their quality of life. I believe that the effect of drilling for oil in ANWR is minimal environmentally and I believe that it is in the best interests of the American citizens and certainly the natives of Alaska to throw aside the environmentalist hullabaloo and get to it.
I personally believe that the American people should vote against every candidate (Democrat or Republican) who does not support drilling off shore, in ANWR and in tapping our available resources, wherever they may be. I support nuclear energy and all of the things that the Democrats are against. I fault John McCain for his lack of support for drilling in ANWR.
I sincerely believe that the objections to tapping our natural resources are political in nature and lobbyist oriented. I have listened to all of the hype, -- heard about the pristine beauty of ANWR, risk of drilling off shore and the failure of the oil companies to drill on the 60 million (was that the figure?) acres of leased land. In my opinion, it is ALL POLITICAL RHETORIC. It is time to quit jaw boning and get to it. Whatever shortcomings the oil companies may exhibit – the environmentalists are as bad and perhaps, worse. The oil companies at least want us to have enough money to buy their gas -- the environmentalists would have us hibernate and return to life as savages. It is time we looked ourselves in the mirror and said, ENOUGH to the self serving among us and RIGHT ON to the American dream.
We would not be in this spot if Bill Clinton had not vetoed ANWR in 1995. I personally am fed up with the lack of respect for the US citizen that is prevalent in our elected politicians. It is time we start anew and elect new representatives, Senators, Governors and otherwise. It is time that we send a clear message that we want to be heard and we want to be heard now. It is time for our elected officials to worry more about serving the people and less about reelection. It is time we voted on people based on the job they do -- not the nomenclature of their political affiliation.
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