"We must act with the same boldness that President John F. Kennedy employed to inspire America to develop a space program that put a man on the moon in a little less than a decade," Gerlach writes in a recent op-ed.
From Gerlach:
We certainly do not have to travel to the moon to achieve energy independence.Democrats who control both houses of Congress have blocked U.S. oil companies from drilling for oil in Alaska or offshore, reducing the supply of domestic oil, one of the factors driving up the price of gasoline.
Some of the solution can be found just off America's shores beneath the Outer Continental Shelf.
That's where the U.S. Minerals Management Service reports billions of barrels of oil and natural gas could be tapped in an environmentally responsible way.
Foreign dictators will soon take advantage of these valuable energy resources about 60 miles off the coast of Florida. China is cooperating with Cuba to set up oil and natural gas exploration in the Atlantic.
Read the full column in The Mercury.
2 comments:
Way to go, Congressman Gerlach!
Now, if we could only convince the Dems. But, of course, drilling would make too much sense.
As usually goes with these matters, I'm reminded of Mark Twain's brilliant aphorism: "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
On a different, but pro-Gerlach, note: He's also on a committee to bring a trauma center back to Chester County.
Ever since Brandywine turned in their trauma certificate, Chester and parts of western Montgomery counties have been without a local trauma center, meaning all trauma patients have to be flown to centers as much as 50 miles away, creating a hardship on family members and reducing healthcare-related jobs (not to mention, in bad weather, we paramedics must DRIVE those 50 miles, because helicopters are grounded. That wastes valuable life-saving time).
Vote for Gerlach!
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