This does wonders for their credibility. We encourage the environmental extremists to continue to claim that we don't need the oil and natural gas in ANWR, or the coal and oil under the lands locked up in the Clinton fiasco. This will be a winning message during the blackouts this summer, and while people fume about exorbitant prices for gasoline and diesel fuel and rising prices for all the goods delivered by truck. The louder these extremists sing their orchestrated poppycock, the sooner they will become irrelevant in the search for commonsense solutions to energy and environmental problems. All of us need to realize that honest debate among sincere people who disagree is the best possible way to devise public policy that will win the consent of the governed.
Policy imposed by any other authority is nothing short of tyranny.
Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization and chairman of Sovereignty International.