From Hank in NYC:

Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:22 AM
To: 'letters@nytimes.com'
Subject: To The Editor

“The Big Pander to Big Oil” – Editorial – June 19, 2008

The Bush administration is bound and determined to protect their wealthiest friends and supporters right up to the day they leave office and beyond. By attempting to reverse a twenty-seven year ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, Bush and Cheney make no pretense about their distaste for protecting the planet and placing America in a leadership position with regard to conservation and environmental sustainability.

John McCain has begun to show that he is Bush III in waiting, and has come out for the offshore drilling issue even though he was recently against it. Does this remind anyone of John Kerry in 2004? The American people and the media must pressure the Congress to tell Bush that there is no way he will see offshore drilling while he is in office, and we need to send a clear message to our next President that the environment and development of alternative sources of sustainable and clean energy should be top priorities in his administration.