Badenoch's right to want more out of our most useful assets

KEMI Badenoch is absolutely right when she says we must continue to drill for oil in the North Sea (“Badenoch: We'll get more oil out of North Sea”, Scottish Daily Express, September 1).

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Modern civilisation depends on oil and gas production, with marine gas oil for all the ships - container, warships, fishing boats, dredgers, tankers, crude carriers, ferries — at sea, while there’s diesel fuel for the excavators which mine rare earth minerals for electric vehicles (EVs) or dig out the foundations for wind farms, buildings or airport