Greensboro News & Record | Letter to the Editor | September 11, 2019
History has taught the United States that when we export oil and natural gas, this country is stronger and the world is safer. World War II and the Berlin Airlift both were powered by petroleum energy.
But we as a nation slowed our production and cut it in the early 1970s — a decade noted for stagflation, rising poverty and crime. Today our gas and oil production is at all-time levels, and our enemies are reeling.