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

Goldberg's rationale for this outlandish statement: 2. Growing ethanol to fuel transportation takes land and water from growing food.

Mr. Goldberg's argument is a smoke screen which attempts to divert attention from the real problem. I don't think any serious energy company would propose corn ethanol as a replacement for oil. At this time in the development of alternative fuels most experts acknowledge that ethanol does not have the energy density to fuel over-the-road trucks, which accounts for the major use of fuel for internal combustion engines. Corn produces less energy than it requires to make the ethanol. Only subsidies by the government and tariffs on foreign ethanol keep producers viable.

T. Boone Pickens in his Pickens plan advocates replacing gasoline and diesel fuel with natural gas which we have in abundance. Cars can be converted to natural gas too. My college roommate drove a Pontiac which ran on natural gas back in the early 1950s. There was little infrastructure for natural gas in those days but he seemed to get along fine. This conversion wouldn't be cheap but it would replace a lot of imported oil and oil from deep off-shore wells. Bye Bye BP

Mr. Murphy's law put it right. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. In this case everything that could go wrong went wrong. The proof is seen in the finger pointing. It's like a bunch of kindergartners. Neither BP, the oil company, nor the owners and operators of the rented drilling platform nor the government agency responsible for enforcing safety regulations are taking responsibility for the disastrous oil spill, which seems to be getting worse daily. So far nothing seems to be able to stop the leak and it is reportedly much larger than reported by BP. One of the latest ideas for stopping the leak is shooting junk into the well. Junk items would include the heavy drilling mud, old rubber tires, and golf balls. This sounds like the act of a desperate group of "Experts" that haven't a clue as to how to stop, much less clean up the mess they have made.