Comments on Jonah Goldberg's column of June 19, 2010, in which he states that oil is the "True green fuel."

His rationale for this outlandish statement: If you remove the argument over climate change from the equation...fossil fuels have been one of the great boons to humanity and the environment.

First, you cannot remove climate change from the equation. Admittedly the age of oil has afforded many technological advancements, growing more food to allow more people to thrive and population to soar. Industry would not have been possible on the scale to which it has risen without oil. It has given us leisure time and given some of us great wealth, although not to major parts of the world's population. While It has raised the standard of living of those with oil, it has not raised the quality of life for a very large portion of the world's population to whom these benefits are denied.  That which allows population to grow unfettered is not a great boon to mankind. It makes sustainability of our life styles less and less attainable by the world's growing population.  Oil is a finite commodity and the population growth permitted by oil is unsustainable. Relying on oil to the exclusion of that which can become sustainable is folly.

His rational for this outlandish statement: 3. Banning off-shore oil drilling will cause us to lose $1 trillion in economic benefits. Mr. Goldberg fails to enumerate these $1 trillion benefits we stand to lose. He makes no effort to factor in the economic benefits like job creation from new true green industries. He does not take into account that business has finally come to realize that being green has financial benefits due to climate change. Ask a farmer if he thinks the climate is changing and why.

Jonah Goldberg in his infinite wisdom posted a column Saturday, June 19, stating that oil is the true "green" fuel. Why in the world would he make such a statement? Is he on drugs? His rationale is that  the BP spill is not as bad as the pollution from farm fertilizer run-off in the gulf that creates dead zones.

He goes on to say that growing corn to produce ethanol as a substitute for oil takes water and land from the production of food. Furthermore he states that we will lose $1 trillion in economic benefits, which he fails to enumerate. Next he states we will have to buy most of our oil from foreign producers. Finally he says that bio fuels are inefficient and costly and would require 30% more land to replace oil for transportation and would encourage the destruction of rain forests in countries like Brazil.