The following is a letter to the editor of the AJC:

Energy and oil

We need to catch up on alternatives

Jim Wooten's "right" thinking on energy is centered in the 19th and 20th centuries ("Thinking Right," @issue, July 4). Drilling and oil seem to be the only choices that Wooten and most other right-wing pundits want to consider. It should be a national outrage that our country is not a leader in moving into the 21st century with renewable energy sources.

Brazil has become oil-independent. Japan is shipping hydrogen-cell autos to the U.S. India is marketing a reasonable compressed-air vehicle. Mr. Wooten, be part of the solution; look forward, enter the 21st century.

DENISE GRENTZ

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Could this woman be more retarded? Brazil is oil independent because they are drilling for their own offshore oil instead of buying from the middle east. And no one who favors the no-brainer of drilling for oil where we know we have it has ever suggested that we should not also look for alternative energy sources. Ms. Grentz seems to think that a country of several hundred million people can only do one thing at a time. I guess we should send all our money to the middle east and wait for our non-existent windmills to start turning while she searches for alternative energy sources.