Letter: Writer wasted his energy in oil letter
Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006 | 8:47 a.m.
Regarding Richard Mundy's Jan. 19 letter, "Alaska not the key to our energy woes": His claim that it would be a decade before we could realize any oil from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is the same old lame liberal spin we've been hearing from the Democrats for some time. (Is millions of barrels of crude oil from several acres of wasteland such a bad deal?)
However, this claim isn't nearly as lame as his statement that "those oil company signs around the Las Vegas Valley belong to global companies and their foreign stockholders."
For his information, the majority of refined product to Las Vegas comes from Southern California via pipeline, by American major oil companies. This includes Chevron, which has close to 30 percent of the Vegas market. I retired from this company 10 years ago and a great portion of my retirement income comes from Chevron stock. The last time I checked I was indeed a citizen of the United States.
My advice to Mr. Mundy is to get his facts straight, stop whining and buy oil company stock.
Jim Corwin
Las Vegas
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