Politicians all serving the same masters

News channels are talking about our vast oil reserves here in the United States. Some of our leaders have said that the answer to our energy needs is to “drill baby drill, drill here, drill now.” T. Boone Pickens said that we could end our dependence on foreign oil by drilling for natural gas and converting our truck fleet to burn it.

So now we are fracking for natural gas which is polluting our water sources and where is the gas going? China. We are shipping our coal and natural gas to China. Since we reward the petroleum and mining industries with tax incentives and subsidies, ad are essentially paying them to provide China with cheap energy. China gets the cheap energy, we get polluted water, we pay for it and we still have to buy expensive oil from Muslim countries that use the huge profits to finance terrorist.

Obviously the leaders of the Republicans, Democrats and tea party folks all serve the same Chinese and corporate masters.

ED BUZBEE

Sandpoint