The big oil, coal and gas lobbies have set up a website to spread climate change manure. The site, CO2 is Green.org, is devoted to convincing the American public that the more CO2 the fossil fuel polluters spew out the better it will be for humankind. It's all aimed at preventing cap and trade legislation. They claim that CO2 is not a greenhouse gas and isn't bad for people or plants. This is a half truth...

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: 4. Goldberg states we'll simply have to buy most of our oil from foreigners.

We already buy a major portion of our oil from foreigners. Ramping up domestic production enough to make a significant difference will take many years, Waiting for alternatives to be able to replace oil until it is either all gone or far too expensive for our transportation needs is short term thinking. The cost of drilling in deep water will mean that oil gets more expensive over time.

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

We need a strong energy policy. Anyone that is not living in a cave would likely agree to that. The devil is in the details. I don’t support the oil, coal, and gas industry’s policy of business as usual (BAU). All talk of sustainability goes out the window with just tweaking the current system a little and letting CO₂ spewing industries trade the pollution with some third world country or some company that grows tomatoes. You can trade credits, but the pollution is still there. Pollution refuses to outsource itself. Cap and Trade is not a solution. We need polluters to stop polluting. I don’t care how they do it or how much it costs. We simply have to do it. The consequences of not doing it are too great. We won’t be going to other planets any time soon in mass quantities…

If you are sitting on the fence over the global warming "debate" consider the following. Friday the New York times reported that the oil, coal, and auto industry's own scientists acknowledged back in 1995 that fossil fuels and their use by human activities did indeed affect climate change.

Today is a great time to declare our Independence from fossil fuels. We can't just turn the spigot off but the passage of the energy bill before Congress would be a good start. It took us a very long time to get where we are and it will very likely take a long time to work our way out....