Our economy needs Keystone Pipeline

I am addressing the article "Do we need the Keystone Pipeline?" My answer: Yes, definitely.

For umpteen years, we have been paying our hard-earned money to the already-rich Arabs. This cheaper gas will spur the economy.

How many times have you heard someone say, "I would go there, but the money for gas will kill me"? With cheaper gas people will travel, be it vacations, to a major sidewalk sale in Lake Geneva and a hundred other places they wouldn't go before because the gas bill wasn't worth it.

All over, money is being spent because it doesn't cost an arm and a leg for gas.

The government is supposed to do right for the American people. This is right. We may use less trains to carry oil, thus preventing chances of spills. Even if gas goes to $1.50 a gallon, fine.

The environmentalists' worry is nonapplicable. I have seen pictures of bears laying on the Alaska pipelines and moose feeding around it. It's a pipe, not quicksand, not a slimy bog; not millions of trees cut. It's our freedom from the Arabs.

God has blessed us with energy for our use, so let's use it.

Buying food is a major expense today. I know people that have not eaten a steak in months because there isn't enough money to buy the groceries they would like. Maybe now they will buy a steak once in a while.

Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow.

Don Bekeleski

Elk Grove Village