OPINION:
Stephen Moore’s excellent op-ed “State of the planet: It’s better than ever” (Web, April 26) overlooks Internet communications’ wonderful contributions to energy-supply increase and a cleaner environment.
Through the use of the Internet over many service platforms, items such as documents, reports and books, among many other things which one once had to get in an automobile to physically retrieve, are now available through a home computer for fingertip retrieval. They are transported through information pipes that have zero emissions.
When I worked on U.S. Senate staffs in the ’80s and ’90s during the private-sector development of the Internet, congressional Republicans and Democrats got out of the way — as did both Republican and Democrat presidential administrations. This allowed the Internet to flourish as a gigantic economic engine for America, creating many jobs.
Lamentably, the Obama administration has put regulatory shackles on the Internet through the Federal Communications Commission issuance of “net neutrality rules.” This is just what they are doing to our free-market energy sector, too. They worship at the altar of self-proclaimed climate change, which in reality is back-door communism masquerading as environmental policy. They want to further shackle the private-sector energy where the state dictates energy policy at an unbearable price for the American people — to the detriment of our future.
Let’s hope the next administration will unshackle both.
WAYNE RONALD BOYLES III
Alexandria
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