On the front page of the D Section in The Durango Herald (March 29), there was a story about gas and oil drilling. I would rather see stories about inventions that actually take the place of fossil fuels. There are patented, energy-saving devices from more than 100 years old to present ones that are prevented from entering the world-wide market because the power and control oil companies and other related industries have.
A young student visited me recently and said he saw a film a year ago about retired MIT friends coming up with an inexpensive invention that would save homeowners mega bucks on their heating bill. That idea never came to fruition, like so many others.
What will it take to convince oil companies to pump their resource for air travel only? Once every drop is used up, people are not going to be able to jump on a plane to see granny or to any other place of importance. The prospects of space travel for the wealthy 1 percent, which would take an obscene amount of fuel, will not be possible either. One would think if the super-elite were not able to drink the best champagne in a Virgin Air baby sippy cup (to keep the beverage from floating around in the capsule), the management of oil would be treated differently today.
Pennsylvania, Texas and others have been damaged so much from oil and gas removal that there are fires coming out of kitchen faucets, naturally undrinkable water and earthquakes that never used to occur, destroying the landscape. Colorado is next. When you see brick houses and The Strater Hotel come tumbling down, perhaps there will be a different view of how to manage fossil fuels.
Sally Florence
Durango
