Michael1942's Blog

The recent posting by a contributor to the local paper railed against the Presidents decision to hold off on the Keystone XL pipeline. This opinion is based  apparently more on political or personal feelings than fact. The real facts are:  America is producing more than half of our oil domestically. We are coming out of a 40 year decline in oil production and under the leadership of President Obama we are poised to start a gas and oil boom within our own borders. The keys to this boom is based on insuring that the gathering of these resources do no environmental harm ( or at least minimal and short term). It is everyone’s right to voice opinions but these opinions need to be based in fact and or experience rather than political  innuendo and misunderstood information. There in absolutely nothing wrong with opinions if they have some basis in fact but political “facts” and possibly prejudicial feelings are not truth.