It is the equivalent of adding a second to the yellow on a traffic light. Your April 8 lead editorial, “Waiting on ANWR,” flaunts the tired solution for energy salvation that conservation and efficiency will save the day. It is just as irrational for me to suggest that no driving on Fridays and Tuesdays will save the day.

We collectively use more fuel today than yesterday, use more this year than last, more this decade… We import more than 60 percent of our fuel from sovereign nations. And every Alaskan citizen receives reimbursement for the original oil pipeline there, so citing Alaskan subsistence hunters as supporting data against drilling there overlooks their benefit of royalties as well as independence.

Hypocritically, Perry residents squandered their opportunity for conservation by snubbing LNG much like Maine’s seeming idea for self-sufficiency and prosperity is a gigantic bicycle path.

So, if you live in a wood house, don’t condemn cutting trees.

Bill Capistran

Caribou