To the editor:

It’s quite true, as the Journal-World editor says, “This nation must come up with answers to make it less reliant on foreign oil and meet the growing power demands of an expanding economy.”

It’s also true, as the editor says, “We need more dreamers, positive thinkers, optimists and highly motivated individuals to show what can be done with vision and hard work” and that, “They need to be given a chance to demonstrate what they can do for the benefit of the public.”

It’s also quite true that this nation needs to rapidly develop the means to rapidly end its carbon addiction.

And it’s true that we will not be able to do this as long as we spinelessly strive to avoid fundamental change and allow those who would bind us ever tighter to our dependence on fossil fuels and who wish to continue rewarding their investors and profiting by tightening the bindings of the long suffering public to ever more greedy carbon-based power generation and transportation fuel companies. It’s a dead end road and they know it, and they are grasping at straws in their frantic efforts to keep what they see as a powerless public bound to it.

Who was it that said, “The future stands before us bright like a flame?” Whoever it was he must have known about the history of Lawrence and how it was here that free people stood up and rejected oppression in a bold and forceful manner.

Les Blevins,
Lawrence