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I may be wasting my words, but I still feel compelled to point out a very simple, perhaps inconvenient, fact: we need oil and natural gas to survive as a civilization.

My visionary, progressive friends fret, and correctly so, over the global warming impact of this simple truth. Yes, we must develop alternative energy sources, and until they are more widely available, we must conserve and continue to improve emission damage from fossil fuels.

Until the arrival of our surely utopian, progressive future where we power our industries, hospitals, schools, food production, defense and social fabric without fossil fuels, lets revert to the energy-independence course that President Joe Biden started to reverse on the day he was sworn in by canceling permits for the Keystone XL Pipeline. Get it flowing.

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Canadian and domestic energy is no different from that produced overseas; it has the same environmental impact. It just comes unencumbered by kings and princes, dictators and lunatics, murderers and thieves, and flows unimpeded by the insanities of the broader world.

To my progressive friends: Put down the latte and look at the actual world we share. Tell me, where is my logic flawed?

Lastly, and most disturbing to the enlightened walking among us, Democrats will never restore expansion of our energy industry, at least not those Democrats currently in command of the once-great party many of us remember.

Lou Manfredo, Deptford Township

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