To The Editor: Jim Davis of Avalon urges us to listen to folks like T. Boone Pickens and his plea for energy sources independent of fossil fuels. Picken’s usual motivation is making money and lots of it, which he has and continues to through his oil interests. Now, I understand, he is venturing into other realms like wind and solar. He probably will make lots of money there also. But that doesn't invalidate his recent assertions. To me the number-one objective needs to be energy independence anyway we can get there. We are already 30 years late getting started. Sources like wind, solar, geothermal and biofuels can be very good options as supplemental sources, but they won't satisfy bulk demands for energy currently met using fossil fuels, hydro and some nuclear. In a global economy, countries that have the lowest energy costs per GNP of out put will have a big competitive advantage. Like it or not, for some time to come, we must support our ongoing bulk-power demands, much of which comes from foreign sources which threaten not only our national security, but because of high prices, put our global competitiveness and our economy at risk. Thus we must drill for domestic sources every place available, increase our refining capacity, intensify our use of coal and shale oil and conversion to nuclear power (as a clean low-cost bulk-power source.) Increased domestic fossil-fuel supply will eventually lower prices (but not short-term since we have to catch up). That may not be a bad thing and may offer incentive to sensible changes in consumption habits. Then perhaps some day we can shrug-off the noisome burden of foreign supply and all the downside economic and political stuff that brings. It is high time we send a terse message to Congress that their myopic political shenanigans won't cut it and threatens not only the country but also their careers. We might eventually wean ourselves off of fossil fuels, but we can't afford to go "cold turkey" today. BOB LOVELL Court House