Environmental Protection Agency needs restrictions

Congress needs to restrict and control the Environmental Protection Agency, which has caused us to lose many energy sources with such extreme restrictions on oil drilling and harassment of coal-fired electrical generating plants. We have large proven oil reserves under Alaska that EPA and radical environment groups have declared off limits for drilling, while we are importing huge amounts of oil from Arab nations that have inflicted anti-American activities against us.

Most of the electrical power in the Midwest is generated by coal-fired plants. It is vital to keep them operating without unreasonable, costly restrictions that drastically increase our cost of electricity. EPA has become a power-grabbing, dictatorial agency that has created huge problems for our energy-producing free-enterprise companies. That has led to all of us paying exorbitant prices for gasoline, heating oil and electricity.

We desperately need to wisely use energy reserves of oil and coal that we have in ample amounts to meet the basic needs of our nation.

John Kittleson

Postville