I keep hearing and reading how horrible global warming is and how drastic measures are needed now to stop it. With the heating oil price crisis expected in Maine this winter, maybe these drastic measures should be delayed. We are going to need some of that global warming. I don’t want to hear about people freezing to death this winter.

The LIHEAP program is a joke with the benefit at $415, which will provide at most a couple of weeks of heat. The politicians in Washington are playing with people’s lives. They don’t give a hoot whether people freeze. They take off on their 5-week vacations – the poor darlings, they are so overworked from doing nothing!

The people who are screaming about global warming now are the same people who screamed we were entering an ice age in the early 1970s. I wish they would make up their minds. The argument that offshore drilling won’t show any results in 10 years is baloney. The other night on TV I heard the ex-CEO of Shell Oil Company say they could rapidly bring this oil to market and plenty of it.

We should never have been put in this position in the first place. The public policy of us being dependent on foreign oil from potential enemies is ridiculous. This is a matter of national security and the health of our economy. Oil is our economic lifeblood. For now there should be offshore drilling, but the Democratic politicians don’t want it because it will offend their environmental friends and supporters. Politics should be left out of it. Plenty of regular people who vote Democrat say they want offshore drilling. We need our own oil now.

Janice Bodwell

Kenduskeag