To the Editor:
Local energy prices, which respond to the economic laws of supply and demand, seem higher now than they were when President Joe Biden spent the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to reduce energy prices.

This adversely impacts local families, especially those on limited incomes by causing them to pay more for energy, and less for food and other essentials. High energy prices exacerbate the financial difficulties of the most vulnerable: the poor and the elderly.

We would now have had the American and Canadian energy flowing through pipelines to heat and power our lives affordably, had President Biden not killed that source of affordable energy.

Voters’ memories of this time will be simmering in the coming summer and fall.

Edgar Tolmie

Altamont