Drill Baby Drill sounds so exciting, so American, so like The Little Engine that Could.

Sadly, according to 98% of actual climate scientists, those days needed to be over years ago.

We all learned about the water cycle in third grade or why puddles disappear. … Carbon and methane trap heat. It’s pretty basic. I know we all care about our Eastern wildfires coming from dried out soils where carbon and methane have trapped heat and affected vast weather systems.

If we truly have a free market economy, should legislators strangle an industry just because it threatens their campaign donations?

We can’t claim to be America First if we keep safer, cheaper, cleaner energy out of our American hands.

Judy Grove

Altoona (retired teacher)