Energy and laws of supply, demand
As the election nears, I'm seeing more of opinions from people like Mr. Larson of Mount Prospect (Fence Post, Aug. 27) who continue to blame Bush, Chaney and McCain for our economic and energy woes.
Government is not to blame, but the laws of supply and demand are.
When consumers reduce their demand for larger vehicles and bigger homes and start driving less, only then will prices drop.
Alternative technologies are expensive and will only become cheaper when the demand for those technologies grows.
The long-term solution is to build lots of new energy generating plants using wind, solar, ethanol, hydrogen and nuclear power.
The problem is that there is lots of legislation born of environmental and selfish concerns blocking the construction of new energy generating sources.
To make matters worse, there is legislation that blocks the building of new refineries and coal plants, drilling and extracting oil on lands, even on the lands energy companies have the rights to explore but don't have the rights to get the oil.
In the meantime, we need short-term solutions like offshore drilling and then for Congress to lift restrictions on building new green energy and fossil fuel plants.
President Bush is willing to approve such legislation. Mr. Larson and those other like-minded people just don't understand it is we the consumer that drove up the demand and not Bush, Chaney and McCain.
Consumers are just now lessening their demand but the Clinton, Gore, Obama and Biden Democrats don't want to upset their special interest supports by making it easier to allow energy companies to build and explore to increase the supply.
They better hope those Democrats they elect have better ideas than turning down your thermostat and inflating your tires.
Ron Feldman
Roselle