It’s time for those who should know better to challenge radical policies such as banning gasoline-powered cars and oil and gas drilling.

If these and other misguided measures are fully implemented, our lives would become greatly impoverished, and our great nation could become a third-world hellhole while our international rivals would pass us to dominate the world for the worse.

Fossil fuels are the lifeblood of our world, providing energy for cheap transportation, home heating and power for our factories. Furthermore, plastics made from petroleum are used in manufacturing medical instruments, electronic devices, tools and inexpensive clothing material.

Without fossil fuels, I predict the cost of transportation would go sky high as well as that of food and other necessities, because practically everything we need must be transported to us. The changeover to electric cars would also put increased pressure on our already strained electric grid, making blackouts and brownouts part of daily life.

The resulting high cost of living would leave little money left for leisure. Forget about cruises and foreign tours, and even trips to distant points in this country. A luxury vacation for future Pittsburghers might mean going to Lake Erie.

We’d also have less to spend for sports events, concerts, theater, movies, hunting, fishing, dining out and visits to the beauty parlor.

And I don’t believe these drastic sacrifices would improve the environment anyway.

If we don’t soon get the courage to oppose this foolishness, then our entire civilization will be destroyed.

Dave Majernik

Plum

Copyright ©2025— Trib Total Media, LLC (TribLIVE.com)