Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the editor)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May, 2006

Energy policy lack falls on all of us The energy crisis is affecting every person in the United States and the world. As a country, we use more oil per capita than any other nation. Everyone, from politicians to consumers, is blaming the president for this inept energy policy of dependence on foreign oil.

Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin was a representative prior to becoming a senator. What has he done since 1983 to introduce any type of energy policy? Outspoken Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts has been in Congress since the last energy crisis during the Carter administration, and he hasn't completed any energy policy to reduce the dependence on foreign oil, either. Twenty years ago, Brazil made a concerted effort to reduce its...