I would like to thank Thomas Burr for the very informative and rather disturbing article regarding paid political influence on Utah’s members of Congress. I think the money received by Rep. Rob Bishop from the gas and oil industry is particularly egregious given his position on the House Natural Resources Committee.
At a time when Utah should be concentrating on the preservation of our BLM land for future generations and aggressively switching to alternative energy sources, he pushes for sacrificing our most spectacular public lands for the short-term financial gain of extraction industries. His philosophy is particularly hurtful to our youth as it encourages them to seek jobs in the dead-end field of fossil fuel extraction instead of obtaining the scientific education needed to pursue positions in the rapidly expanding field of alternative energy.
Tom Mader, Moab