To the editor:
It was encouraging to read the article about the plan to provide electric power from a proposed wind farm in Butler county (Journal-World, Friday).
This plan caused me to search my files for more information on how we could replace some of our present sources, such as oil, coal, gas and nuclear. World Watch Institute recently published a report dealing with the way Occidental Petroleum has convinced the Bush Administration to make available a growing amount of aid to the Colombian military to protect the flow of oil from that country.
For fiscal year 2003, the administration requested $573 million in aid to Colombia. This includes $95 million to train and support a 4,000-member brigade of the Columbian army assigned to protect the Cano-Limon oil pipeline.
This sounds to me like the U.S. taxpayers money is helping protect our oil supply from Colombia. Once again we are not paying the true cost of our oil energy. No doubt the Bush-Cheney team is well pleased with this program.
Lester C. Marsh,
Lawrence
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