No energy policy = international threat

Since the president has been in office, the price of gas has increased 67 percent. We have a Secretary of Interior who supports $10 a gallon gas.

Just as in the debt crisis, our nation’s lack of an energy policy has become an intentional threat to our national security. “Green energy” is fine and needed. Provide the incentives and get out of the way and the private sector will meet the challenge. To force it in the premature stages of current devlopment is reckless.

Without fossil fuel, our economy and society will be forced into the stone age. We need to drill, increase our refining capacity, build nuclear plants and increase natural gas applications while alternatives are aggresively developed. This way the Middle East becomes irrelevant. There is absolutley no reason this intentional threat to our national security should be placed upon us by the our president.

Bill Hopkins

Huntley