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To the editor:

Every day we are reminded of increasing costs for food and energy. The ones responsible for increased costs suggest alternative solutions and ignore the demands of the people. The polls indicate "the people" want more local oil supplies available today. The people want nuclear, wind, gas, etc. now. Will we the people ever realize our diminishing prosperity is the direct result of taxation, regulation and litigation government has created?

Government tyranny insists they know what is best for us. Congressman Dennis Moore mailed a response letter three pages in length reporting how Congress is hard at work developing alternative energy sources. Moore states: "we cannot drill our way out of this crisis." You can tell the people are really pleased with Congress as its "favorability polls" are at 9 percent.

Watch now for the Democrat-controlled Congress to announce it is for drilling in our own territories. They will attach so many poison-pill amendments to their legislation promised two years ago, the Republicans will have to vote against it. The media will demagogue the Republicans for saying "no" because the proposed legislation is two steps back and resolves nothing except increasing more dependence on foreign resources supplied by people who do not like us.

The only real solution to the energy problem is to remove obstacles causing the problem. Taxation, regulation and litigation our government placed upon the U.S. energy industry must be repealed in order for our freedom from dependence on foreign sources to succeed beyond empty rhetoric. This will not happen because bureaucrats, Environmentalists through their Democrat and Republican in name only lackeys will never allow it.

The solution therefore is the entire current class of the "Peoples House" must be replaced with people who will truthfully represent the people just as the Founding Fathers perceived.

Reverend Fred Thorp, M.P.A.

Shawnee