In my view, Sen. Jeff Bingaman seems to be kow-towing to the oil, gas and coal companies, and to polluters nationwide with his false carbon-sequestration ideas.

If all of the grant money that fossil-fuel addicts are receiving to develop an unsustainably dead and fossilized technology were instead given to sustainable, renewable, life-giving energy-resource development, there would be no need to build another coal- or nuclear- fired power plant.

Cars would be running on very little or no on-board fuel, and greenhouse gases would be reduced significantly, not by the pittance his corporate polluter friends are willing to achieve.

Sustainable, renewable energy resources include ethanol and biodiesel (if developed properly), biomass, geothermal, flowing water, wind, solar thermal and photovoltaic solar.

There is also "free piston" internal-combustion engine technology, and new diesel engine technology that can also significantly reduce our dependence on any kind of fossil fuel, foreign or domestic.

Having the strength to break our habitual dependence on death will save U.S. from ourselves. Is Sen. Bingaman going to truly support such a move? I wouldn't hold my breath until he does.

One thing I would do, unless he comes to see the light, is to vote against him and to get as many of my friends as possible to vote against him as well. Sen. Bingaman cannot be half for sustainability and half against.

The half against will win, and "everyone will die when the well runs dry."

If Sen. Bingaman and his family manage to survive the prevalent ignorance in America, and elsewhere in the world, regarding global warming, especially if the ignorance persists, then his descendants may very well not survive.

That is the danger he is foisting on his children and his children's children, everyone's children. That is all of humankind. How stupid is that?

Robert D. Locker lives in La Ciénega and performs the "Santa Fe Shuffle" for a living.