Excerpt from an email I just received from Mary Fallin:
Permanently opening up new areas of energy development offshore in the outer continental shelf, arctic coastal plains, as well as onshore production of oil shale in the western United States will increase domestic production of traditional natural resources. In addition, any long-term energy policy must also cut the bureaucratic red tape that impedes the construction of new refineries.
Any production of traditional natural resources must be coupled with alternative energy solutions. We must increase our research and development of renewable fuels and alternative energy sources, such as wind, solar, nuclear, and biofuels to make them economically viable. Diversifying supplies, as well as increasing conservation efforts are key components to a comprehensive energy plan. This can be accomplished by renewing tax incentives to develop fuel efficient vehicles, and extending tax credits to customers who purchase fuel efficient vehicles.
My reply:
Dear Mary
In the second paragraph I have quoted, I am happy that you mentioned wind and solar FIRST and VERY HAPPY that you didn’t try to sell me clean coal.
However, look at all the cars on our roads and try to imagine how much oil it would take to fill all their gas tanks; hard to imagine isn’t it; even harder to imagine that we have enough natural resources within our boarders to accomplish this.
Did you know that as CO2 rises, Oxygen in our atmosphere decreases. Did you also know that besides global warming, the human mind grows paranoid when oxygen decreases, add that with the right to bear arms and I’m scared.
Seeing that most of our oxygen comes from our forests and oceans, it would seem wise to me that we not threaten these MOST life sustaining resources even if there was no immediate profit in just leaving them alone. Besides, by time we tapped into these resources and refined them for our gas tanks our world would already be burning up, the same could be said for the production of nuclear power.
The answer to our delima is simple: Outlaw gasoline combustion vehicles from our streets, highways and interstate system and replace them with electric and hydrogen powered automobiles. Impossible you might think. You know what seems impossible to me that we could spend over 700 billion on our military. Imagine if you can if we invested such resources into the salvation of our earth rather than ensuring the survival of our industrial military complex; gosh, what a novel idea.
I dream of a day when our politicians really care more about our welfare for today and the future and less about ensuring that their political campaigns for re-election will always be funded.
Very Respectfully,
Roger Harkness