Gov. Ritter is right on oil shale change

My concern with the position that the two Republican hopefuls for governor have in their opposition to Gov. Ritter’s oil shale position is that they are short-term solutions to our economic growth and show obvious bias toward the oil and gas industry.
The nation has newly found resources for gas that will easily bridge our national economy into a future of clean, affordable energy. There is no reason to support corporate commercial interests in a future that sells our resources at the cheapest rate and without the science to protect our economy in the areas of agriculture and tourism.
We need to err on the side of our children’s interests. Consider what Scott McInnis and Josh Penry offer.
Surely we have the innovation, political will and local resources to join the green economy. Petroleum is non-renewable. It will continue to increase in value.  Morally, it is a resource that we need to extend into the future through energy conservation and responsible development.
If Penry is sincere about slow, responsible progress, he will get behind the Governor’s Energy Office and its mission for Colorado.
TANYA TRAVIS
Grand Junction

News articles should have
focused on federal waste

On Oct. 16, The Daily Sentinel ran two separate Associated Press stories touting that “Colorado saved or created 4,700 jobs” via President Barack Obama’s stimulus program. Colorado apparently led the way, while the nation benefitted from 30,000 new or “saved” jobs.
We also learned that this effort cost $16 billion of unfunded, borrowed taxpayer money and that these particular jobs “like most contracting jobs, these were temporary, and most are already over.”
Not surprisingly, the White House economic advisor quoted in the story touted this as positive and that the results “exceeded our projections.”
Hmmmm. Rather than leading with the government-fed headlines next time, I suggest the Associated Press more accurately run something along the lines of: “Government wastes over $500,000 per temporary job; interest on borrowed dollars to be paid by grandkids; jobless rate reaches 22-year high.” But that would require using facts, doing math and drawing a conclusion instead of a quote.
ALEX CHAFFETZ
Grand Junction

Democrats share
recent years of misrule
Well, it is nice to see that John Borgen is objective in assigning his history of “misrule” to a couple of Democrats as well as Republicans, as he chastised Dave Kearsley for his attacks on President Obama.  Presidents Carter and Clinton fall within the “30 years of misrule” preceding our current administration. While this administration did inherit a deficit, members seem to be gleefully adding to it significantly.
It is also nice to see that Mr. Borgen is equally disrespectful of President Obama as he was of President Bush; calling each by their last names without using, “President.”
He chides Mr. Kearsley for picking on the president over Medicare and Afghanistan.  If our president knows there are many billions of “waste, fraud and unnecessary features” in Medicare, why are they still there?  What has the administration done to root these out, or are they just numerical fantasies to justify some phantom savings in paying for the health care bill? His sycophants must have given him some particulars during his campaign.
I also assume Obama had some really expert military and strategic advice for advocating the “right war” so many times during the campaign. Now it seems he may be thinking it is less right? It will be nice to know just what his strategy to achieve whatever he calls victory may be.
Borgen also accuses Kearsley of using the “Republican … simple answer to everything … No!”  Did not  Borgen use this same “simple answer” constantly during the eight years of President Bush’s administration?
CREIGHTON BRICKER
Grand Junction

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