{"id":54,"date":"2005-10-05T13:56:04","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T19:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=54"},"modified":"2005-10-10T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T17:09:09","slug":"blame-the-enviros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/blame-the-enviros\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame the Enviros"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABQjournal: Letters to <\/p>\n

the Editor<\/a>
\nBlame the Enviros<\/p>\n

IS THIS the appropriate time to say, “I told you so?”<\/p>\n

With gasoline prices at <\/p>\n

$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 <\/p>\n

question are Gov. Bill Richardson, Attorney General Patricia Madrid, and the professional monkey-wrenchers<\/em> at the New Mexico <\/p>\n

Wilderness Alliance, the Forest Guardians and the Sierra Club.<\/p>\n

It is these folks who have stood in the way of energy <\/p>\n

production. They are the ones who have lied to you<\/strong> about the environmental impacts of extracting the resources we use <\/p>\n

every day. And it is these people who couldn’t care less<\/em> about how their anti-energy, anti-development agenda hurts <\/p>\n

you and your family<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fact is, we can’t have affordable energy prices and indulge extremists<\/em> at the <\/p>\n

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<\/em> about the <\/p>\n

damage oil and gas development does to the environment, tell them about the damage their activism is doing to your <\/p>\n

wallet<\/strong>.
\n BILL MCCAW
\n Artesia<\/p>\n

Listen to the nice man explain that “enviros” (read <\/p>\n

“communists” or, maybe, “sub-humans”) don’t care about you<\/em>, while he loves you and wants to keep you warm and mobile. Hmmm.<\/p>\n

As one of the people the self-serving profiteer McCaw despises, I care about protecting public lands and life from irrevocable <\/p>\n

destruction. I see the US has gone from a vast wilderness to ever dwindling pockets — even those patches of wilderness are constantly <\/p>\n

nibbled on the edges and deeply invaded by ATVs, snow-mobiles (cough-Al Unser, Sr-cough), mountain bikes, etc. Even fighting the <\/p>\n

destroyers tooth and nail with everything we’ve got, there’s a little less left every year. The destroyers and profiteers will never be <\/p>\n

satisfied. And they insist on adding insult to injury at every opportunity. Nice people. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

mjh’s Dump Bush weBlog: Trust an <\/p>\n

oil man<\/a><\/p>\n

Ninety-nine percent of the public couldn’t point out Otero Mesa on a map even if they were given a cash prize for <\/p>\n

doing so. And yet, extremists<\/b><\/i> are trying to convince the public that drilling for oil and natural gas on this <\/p>\n

”untamed” land will ”destroy” our state’s ”natural heritage.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABQjournal: Letters to 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, … Continue reading Blame the Enviros<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}