Regarding “Our Addiction to Oil Makes Keystone a Must” (Jan. 20
editorial), what kind of twisted logic is the Register encouraging? In
other words, like any addiction, a person must continue to feed it in
order to be cured?
Supporting the Keystone XL pipeline is not the answer. Keystone embodies
everything wrong with the oil industry. I get sick and tired of oil
giants telling us that drilling for more oil is the only answer to energy
needs.
Conventional sources of oil are drying up, so now they are saying let us
exploit sources deep underwater (how well has that gone lately?), or let
us destroy forests to get at incredibly polluting tar sands.
The answer is a massive investment in renewables, not continued support
for an industry responsible for every major problem in the world today,
be it war, terrorism, debt, pollution, climate change, etc. Every time,
we take a step backward and give them more support, there is less time
and effort that can be given to the sectors of our economy that can solve
our addiction to foreign oil, solve a bloated military budget to
safeguard the flow of oil from increasingly hostile areas of the world,
or solve the horrendous effects of climate chaos, which will only get
worse with each passing year.
The Keystone XL decision was finally a victory for people standing up to
the big-oil lies. Lies about how many jobs will be created, lies about
how safe it is traveling through precious aquifers, and lies about how it
will make us energy secure.
— Jerry DenHartog, Clear Lake

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