The is my Letter to The Editor to be Published in the Monday edition of the Las Vegas SUN:

The Democrats continue their efforts to blame the rising prices of gasoline and fuel oil on the Republicans and, in particular, the Bush Administration. There is no bigger lie to be foisted upon the American public.

Since 1980, almost 29 years ago the Democrats began their refusal to allow Off Shore Drilling, Alaskan Oil Drilling, the construction of Nuclear Power Plants and Wind Farms off the Coast of New England. Their claims, however foolish, were designed to protect the interests of their political contributors not the pocketbooks of the American citizenry.

Now the Democrats want to blame the Republican Party for failure to levy fines for ‘Price gouging’ by Big Oil. Never mind the fact that they, the Democrats, ran on the promise to keep gasoline prices low and punish Big Oil for price gouging.

 The Democrat spokesmen all say, If we were to allow drilling offshore, in Alaska, and Nuclear Power Plants it would be at least 10 years before we would realize anything in production. That may be true but, if we had begun to act in 1980, 29 years ago, the ‘10 year’ claim would be a moot point! We would have had energy prices under control and facts are facts!

One Democrat Senator said, “There would only be a one cent (.01) reduction in the price of gasoline if we had drilled in Alaska.” Oh Yeah! One cent from what! Nice try Senator but a lie is a lie no matter how you seek to sugarcoat it!