the Editor
Blame the Enviros
IS THIS the appropriate time to say, “I told you so?”
With gasoline prices at
$3 a gallon and natural gas more than triple what it was a few years ago, people are asking “why?” The folks who should be answering this
question are Gov. Bill Richardson, Attorney General Patricia Madrid, and the professional monkey-wrenchers at the New Mexico
Wilderness Alliance, the Forest Guardians and the Sierra Club.
It is these folks who have stood in the way of energy
production. They are the ones who have lied to you about the environmental impacts of extracting the resources we use
every day. And it is these people who couldn’t care less about how their anti-energy, anti-development agenda hurts
you and your family.
The fact is, we can’t have affordable energy prices and indulge extremists at the
same time. If you want to do yourself and the rest of us a favor, the next time you hear one of these people lie about the
damage oil and gas development does to the environment, tell them about the damage their activism is doing to your
wallet.
BILL MCCAW
Artesia
Listen to the nice man explain that “enviros” (read
“communists” or, maybe, “sub-humans”) don’t care about you, while he loves you and wants to keep you warm and mobile. Hmmm.
As one of the people the self-serving profiteer McCaw despises, I care about protecting public lands and life from irrevocable
destruction. I see the US has gone from a vast wilderness to ever dwindling pockets — even those patches of wilderness are constantly
nibbled on the edges and deeply invaded by ATVs, snow-mobiles (cough-Al Unser, Sr-cough), mountain bikes, etc. Even fighting the
destroyers tooth and nail with everything we’ve got, there’s a little less left every year. The destroyers and profiteers will never be
satisfied. And they insist on adding insult to injury at every opportunity. Nice people. mjh
mjh’s Dump Bush weBlog: Trust an
oil man
Ninety-nine percent of the public couldn’t point out Otero Mesa on a map even if they were given a cash prize for
doing so. And yet, extremists are trying to convince the public that drilling for oil and natural gas on this
”untamed” land will ”destroy” our state’s ”natural heritage.”