Go Big, Get Crazy

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From: barry levine 
Date: Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:41 AM
Subject: re: Go Big, Get Crazy
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

   Thomas L. Friedman has been embracing the Keystone Pipeline--even while protesting that he hates it in his heart--for over a year now. (http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2013/03/thomas-friedman-embraces-keystone-extortion/).  Last year it was coupled to a carbon tax. Today he wants it as a lever against Putin. Tomorrow he'll want it as a weapon against marauding Martians.

   The U.S. desperately needs a rational energy policy, quite independent of Putin's war-mongering. And no rational energy policy involves importing dirty tar-sand bitumen through a Keystone Pipeline.

Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/opinion/friedman-go-big-get-crazy.html