Herewith a few thoughts about last week's Democratic radio address and its presenter, Mr. Alberici:

1. Stop the whining. It doesn't become you. My father-in-law fought at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima. My older son fought in Kuwait. My younger son fought in Fallujah. You paid three cents more per gallon for gas in the afternoon than in the morning. You whine, they do not.

2. The part about not talking much publicly about politics is disingenuous. One doesn't get to deliver the weekly radio address unless one is a rabid pliable partisan.

3. Raising taxes on oil companies will not produce a single additional drop of gasoline. This strategy was tried during the Carter administration and was a spectacular flop.

4. Tax incentives to promote esoteric inefficient energy sources (wind, solar, geothermal) will inevitably lead to faulty resource allocation and therefore less overall societal productivity (and therefore more poverty).

5. There may be global warming or there may be global cooling. Whatever the case the notion that humans can significantly affect climate is a product of our uniquely narcissistic and humanocentric age. Remember that global warming beyond our imagination created the Finger Lakes about 10,000 years before the advent of the internal combustion engine. And there is currently more objective evidence of global warming on Mars than there is on Earth.

6. For over 30 years, Democrats in Congress have voted overwhelmingly against oil exploration anywhere, oil shale recovery, nuclear power plants, oil refineries and coal recovery. Republicans have voted overwhelmingly for all of the above. Logic leads one to conclude that Democrat Luddites want us all to return to pre-industrial poverty while forward-looking Republicans want to unshackle our collective human genius for good.

D.J. Fulton

Jonesboro, Ga.