Editor,

Let’s suppose we decide to follow “Break Free’s” (Gary Piazzon’s) advice in a May 4 letter the editor and stop the use of all fossil fuels now.

To close down the refineries, are we going to bicycle to them, walk or skateboard in order to shut them down? We certainly aren’t going to use fossil-fueled vehicles.

Just look around you. Virtually everything you can touch, including bicycles, shoes and skateboards, has come by truck. Your bikes probably come from Asia in oil-fueled ships. And I guess we don’t need to eat anymore since nearly 100 percent of our food comes by truck.

The same holds true for clothing, and the materials needed to build our homes.

Farmers would be behind teams of horses creating enough food for themselves and a few other families.

There would be, of course, no more military, no more aviation and fewer trains. In fact, there would be no United States, either. In the winter, if we hadn’t starved to death, we could huddle around wood camp fires toasting make-believe marshmallows.

The list is endless.

For its entire existence, Earth has either been warming or cooling. At the present, carbon dioxide makes up about .04 percent of the atmosphere. It is the food source for most plants.

I guess if you can’t eat, you want to starve the plants, too. How many of you know that CO2 is not the major green house gas? It is water vapor. And you can’t legislate that away.

Therefore, I say to the Social Environmental Justice Council, “Suck it up!” To demand the cessation of fossil fuel now is insanity.

Worse than that, it would be mass murder on a scale unheard of.

Our scientists are working on cleaner, better fuels, but it will take time. Government’s reason for its two-fold “The Sky is Falling” approach to global warming is, one, to control you, and two, to tax you.

That’s the gist of it.

R.D. Beachley

Oak Harbor