Making energy a wedge issue won?t work in Colorado

Re: ?Romney drills home plans to step up oil, gas efforts,? May 10 news story.

As reported by The Post, Mitt Romney is critical of President Obama?s energy policy because there is not enough drilling for oil and gas and too much focus on wind and solar. Broomfield County Republican leader Erich Feigel is reported to have said, ?Stop this nonsense with windmills and solar power. It doesn?t work.?

This message is tone deaf to what is happening in Colorado. We are drilling everywhere for oil and gas here. We are well on our way toward depending on 2,000 megawatts of wind capacity and hundreds of megawatts of solar. These technologies work. Indeed, in Colorado we are developing a balanced energy portfolio, in which natural gas is used to supplant old and dirty coal power plants and back up increasing reliance on intermittent renewable resources. What?s not to like about this?

If Romney and Feigel were hoping to create a wedge issue out of energy policy to divide Coloradans in this election year, it will not work.

Bruce Driver, Boulder

This letter was published in the May 16 edition.

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