Dear Sir/Madam,

Just as most ancient Greeks would have been incapable of recognising the evil of slavery (because their economy depended on it), we too, for the same reason, are incapable of recognising the crime we are committing “plundering” our planet’s natural resources - oil being a prime example of the "booty".

While we can look back on the sins of our forefathers with magnanimity, our decedents will not find it so easy looking back at us. They will have difficultly not cursing our bones for the plundered and disrupted planet we leave them for their inheritance.

Your article bewails the increasing price of oil, although we pay just a fraction of its actual worth - which is why we squander it at such a criminal rate.

Oil is only so cheap because it is “stolen property” – robbed from our own children and their descendents!

U.S. Economy Feeling Bite of Costlier Oil, December 28, 2002