To the Editor:

Let’s see: our entire planet is in danger because of the burning of fossil fuels, our economy is in the tank because of the rising cost of gasoline and diesel while the oil companies are announcing the biggest profits in the history of the planet, and we are going to open the oceans, our biggest source of both oxygen and food, to further offshore drilling. What could possibly be wrong with this picture?

Let’s get real. The solution to our energy problems is to find a different source of energy altogether from fossil fuels, not to pollute what’s left of the planet to make a select few richer while the rest of us go down with the ship. The limited amount of oil there will only prolong the agony anyway.

Judith Luber-Narod
Northboro, Mass., June 19, 2008