President Biden approves the $8B Willow Oil drilling project in the Alaskan Arctic Wilderness that is only political theater following release of millions of oil barrels from the SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) ahead of last year's midterm elections which helped Democrats to an election day surprise.

But energy's life or death implications should not be subject to political games as Russia's War in Ukraine has wreaked havoc to world energy markets. Biden knows charging stations for EV's must mirror Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System explosion in a necessary transition away from the fossil fuel dependence that we are now hostage to which props up Russia, Iran and this crazy little thing called Climate Catastrophe. What is an environmentalist to do?

Jay Lustgarten

Westerly