TO THE EDITOR:
Please join me in celebrating America’s energy independence.
Each day in a series of TV advertisements, the American Petroleum Institute, an arm of the petroleum industry, announces that America is now the world’s number one in natural gas production and, thanks to fracking, nearing number one in petroleum.
Energy independence means we can at last free ourselves from unreliable Middle Eastern oil supplies that entangle us in difficult political alliances.
But the best part of achieving national energy independence is that we will not, thankfully, have to expose our pristine shorelines to the risk of offshore drilling.
In fact, it never made much sense to do so, and now it makes none at all.
No vacationer who has ever thrilled at the beauty of our beaches and our appealing coastal communities will have to worry further, since neither North nor South Carolina would undertake such a reckless and dangerous effort when the American Petroleum Institute says it is entirely unnecessary.
Thank you American Petroleum Institute, and thank you, our political leaders, for restoring the integrity of our coastline.
Terry Munson
