While Obama tinkers, U.S. economy suffers

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on April 05, 2012 at 3:00 AM

To the Editor:

That steady drip, drip you're hearing lately unfortunately isn't from exploratory oil drilling. Instead, it's the watering down in the value of the U.S. dollar as a result of failed economic policies and a stubborn insistence on investing billions in alternative green energy programs, none of which will be productive for at least 20 years. Obama has been running on empty for some time. Now he's asking the rest of us to join him. No thanks!

Every one of us is feeling the pinch at the gas pump and the supermarket checkout line. President Obama says he doesn't have a silver bullet to help lower gas prices. I suggest he exhume the body of the Lone Ranger. He was reputed to have silver bullets.

I wish there was a spacecraft that could transport Obama to an alternative universe where he could experiment with algae, windmills, batteries and other alternative sources. Meanwhile, back on Earth, we Americans have to deal with reality. We can't afford to straddle the penumbra of high-intensity oil drilling and a desire for a pure and perfect planet.

Harold H. Schwartz