Tell Carter To Quit Building Homes. It's Bad For the Environment.

The Letters To The Editor section in my local paper has got me boiling once again. Every month without missing a beat Mr. Whitley Sr. from Louisville, Kentucky spouts off his, by all accounts his left wing propaganda. His statements are not based on factual information, and I emphasize factual. The latest is the energy policy and how wise former nut farmer turned president, Jimmy Carter was so intelligent on his energy policies and leadership of the country. I remember Carter as president, but apparently Mr. Whitely must have been in a coma. The country was going through a fuel shortage during his administration, fuel shortage!! That makes his policies good? There has not been any good leadership on energy policy in this country in years and yes I am talking about Republicans as well. The only endearing quality that Republicans have is they wanted to expand our drilling. Democrats have refused to even entertain the thought. They continue to say the environment will suffer. Oil companies have done documented research (Google the research, it is there) on environmentally friendly and eco-responsible oil drilling methods. The US has not built a new refinery in over 20 years and look at the numbers of our current population growth in the same time frame and guess what? The US has continued to grow and the numbers prove it however, he have not had any significant increase in our energy production levels at all. Why can't the libs figure it out? It isn't rocket science. So should we stop improving our infrastructure? Stop building homes? NO! Society increases yet we are failing to increase any of the support areas that we need for basic survival. We need fuel to heat our homes, drive our vehicles to go to our places of employment so we can earn money to sustain our families. If we treated our growth response similar to the way we have treated our energy growth, Jimmy Carter would not be allowed to build all those houses for habitat for humanity. By the way Jim, are those built eco-responsible?