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ENERGETIC RESPONSES br> Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Oil Is Not Well : /p>

As long as the politicians, oil companies, and environmentalists keep the U.S. hamstrung in the production of energy in this country, the American people will continue to pay through the nose.

France generates over 70 percent of its electricity through the use of nuclear power. We have the capacity, but not the will, to do the same.

We have enough coal in Wyoming to satisfy our power needs for hundreds of years, but not the will to use it. Instead, we ship it overseas. There are huge low-sulphur coal deposits locked up in the Escalante National Monument, placed off-limits to development by Bill Clinton, as a payoff to Indonesian contributors to his reelection campaign.

We can't drill for oil in ANWR, because of opposition by the wacko environmentalists. We won't know how much oil there is there until we drill.

We can't drill for oil in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, because Florida politicians balk, and then arrange payoffs from their friends for those willing to side with them.

There are an estimated four trillion barrels of oil locked up in shale in the U.S. Rocky Mountains. Shell Oil has developed a viable method of extracting in place. Of course, first they have to have the permission of the government to go ahead....

On an on, we flirt with alternate fuel sources, such as biodiesel, and ethanol (a net energy loser in production), while we pay ever higher prices at the pump.

p>We are all sheep, afraid to kick out our current totally corrupt government and start over. br> -- R. Goodson

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