Renewable energy brings starvation, not nirvana
Environmentalists claim drilling for oil is evil, but they do not understand that renewable energy schemes can never become a substitute for fossil fuels [“Obama wants to open part of Alaska coast to oil drilling,” Page One, March 31]. You cannot replace the highly concentrated, reliable energy of fossil fuels with weak, diffuse and fluctuating energy from the wind and sun.
Food equals energy and energy equals food. The higher we push the cost of energy up with mathematically impossible renewable energy schemes, the higher the cost of food will climb.
We will literally starve to death billions of people and our economy will collapse if we try to rely on wind and solar for anything more than symbolic window dressing.
The only possible carbon-free replacement for fossil fuels is the new generation of small, relatively inexpensive liquid fluoride thorium nuclear reactors that could be mass-produced on assembly lines and are 100 percent meltdown-proof and incapable of producing nuclear weapons.
Renewable energy brings starvation, not nirvana.
— Christopher Calder, Eugene, Ore.
Drilling will benefit the wrong crowd
Yep, there goes that socialist Obama again. Now he’s opening up offshore oil drilling to the poor oil companies who only made $40 billion or so in profits last year. Boy, those tea-party people sure had him pegged.
— Richard Reuther, Richland