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Protect energy sources

Wed., Aug. 19, 2015

What happened to the quest for energy independence? Those of us old enough remember waiting in long lines hoping to buy gasoline. We vowed as a nation to never again let a foreign country manipulate us.

So what’s changed? Why are we shipping our oil and coal resources abroad? And who is reaping the benefit? You? I know I’m not seeing any of that money. All of the talk about the environmental impact of oil and coal trains is just a smoke screen to keep us from asking these real important questions.

Maybe we should be looking to our next president as someone who will protect the birthright of our children; that is, the natural resources of the nation.

David Bauer

Spokane

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