The American Spectator

The Nation's Pulse

Crude Construction

By Sam Kazman on 8.12.08 @ 12:07AM

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After all the incessant yammering about how "the era of cheap gas is over," filling up at that price was transcendentally lovely. I even celebrated by squirting a few drops at a colleague standing nearby. He didn't get wet, but he understood the gesture -- it was a toast to life. And regardless of whether gas ever gets that cheap again, it seems clear to me that cheaper is better.

And it's probably even clearer to those who live in less fortunate countries. Dr. John R. Christy is a highly credentialed scientist and a longtime critic of global warming alarmism. He's also personally familiar with what it means for people to live without affordable energy.

Christy wrote in the Wall Street Journal last November, "My experience as a missionary teacher in Africa opened my eyes to this simple fact. Without access to energy, life is brutal and short."

If wishing for cheap energy and for the better life it brings makes us addicts, then more power to us.

Letter to the Editor

topics:
Business, Environment, Global Warming, Africa, Energy, Oil