Glenwood Post Independent,
17 March 2002

Don’t put your faith in dreamers

Dear Editor,
I was shocked to see an article in this morning’s paper whose banner read, “Rocky Mountain Institute helps forge National Energy Policy Initiative” and further “Concludes current energy policy is a threat to national security, prosperity.”
Obviously, the “Ding-a-ling crowd” is at it again.
Their proposal certainly goes against the old common-sense adage “If it works, don’t fix it.”
Certainly their proposal includes the doing away with SUV’s because the fuel consumption is higher than “THEY” want. In that regard, did you follow the terrible accident near Ringgold, Ga., on Interstate 75 in a dense fog last Thursday? There was at least a 125 vehicle pileup — yet only 4 people were killed and 39 injured. Now mentally replace the sturdy vehicles involved with the lightweight, low-powered vehicles dreamed of by the Ding-a-lings! I can visualize hundreds killed and injured!
A State senator from Wyoming confided in me last year that in the not too distant future Wyoming will become the most productive natural gas producer in the country. Did you know that?
These same Ding-a-lings are talking about Global warming — an eco-terrorist fancy with no credible evidence.
This group met in Washington with Tom Daschle, who (IN TIME OF WAR) is blocking the drilling of some very bleak country in Alaska, and they met with Jeff Bingaman, who is the Democratic head of the Senate Energy Committee. We all know that Daschle would do anything for political power. I worked with Jeff in New Mexico, years ago, and I can say for a fact that no rational man would trust a lawyer with an energy policy.
If you look back you will see that it was a Democrat, Jimmy Carter, who blocked the further use of Nuclear Energy (and gave away the Panama Canal, our second line of defense.) Much progress has been made in Nuclear Energy since then in Arco, Idaho, under Charles E. Till, on the Integral Fast Reactor. It’s a very safe and exciting development with little or no waste product! We should be converting to it now.
What I am really trying to say, is don’t put your faith in DREAMERS! Instead let’s keep the United States the World’s “NUMBER 1!”

Sincerely,
R.T. Moolick
Glenwood Springs