Letters To The Editor

Crude oil tankers described as bombs (“Oil tankers are bombs on wheels!” March 28): I’ll let someone else point out the flammability difference between crude oil and gasoline, because my head already hurts from trying to comprehend how someone doesn’t notice how gasoline gets to gas stations. People drive cars and trucks, using up to […]

So who are the liars? Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Adam Schiff, all California’s finest, Chuck Schumer, one of New York’s greats, all the mainstream media mouths or is it Robert Mueller? Each of these, except Mueller, stood directly in front of TV cameras and stated they had evidence that President Donald Trump had colluded with […]

“In Carbon Evolution: The county argues about oil development in Cat Canyon” (March 21), ERG’s spokesperson Nathan Eady is quoted as saying that California’s Air Resources Board (CARB), showed that Cat Canyon had an average carbon intensity of 4.08 in 2017. These statistics were presented at the March 13 Santa Barbara County Planning Commission hearing […]

On Dec. 15, 2017, a gasoline tanker flipped on Highway 101 near Goleta, causing a major spill and shutting down the highway as hundreds of local residents were evacuating due to the Thomas Fire. The 101 was closed while hazardous materials crews worked to clean up the 5,000-plus gallon spill. The road, disintegrated by corrosive […]

Readers under 45 years old should not continue! You would not understand the information presented here. We have seen the first worldwide demonstration of indoctrination. Students walked out of classes to protest inaction on climate change. College students are free to demonstrate and miss class time. It’s their dime. However, students as young as 13 […]

A donnybrook took place on March 13 at the county Planning Commission meeting in Santa Maria over whether to approve a large expansion of ERG oil and gas drilling in Cat Canyon. ERG Resources faced off against an army of resource and climate defenders. In the morning, the county Planning Department and ERG Inc. presented […]

Cutting through all the talk about Trump and his supporters versus the rising opposition made up of Democrats, independents, and some Republicans, what it comes down to is one-man rule versus our democratic system of government. Many Trump supporters understand this division and choice and completely accept the one-man rule that Trump is in essence […]

Since State Parks disclosed its intention to add an off-roading campground and access road by Oso Flaco Lake, people in that area have mobilized against it: the residents of Nipomo Mesa and Trilogy and the Oso Flaco friends. I don’t blame them. I have been a resident of Oceano and have suffered the consequences of […]

There is an age-old tactic employed by insecure people. Try in every way to belittle another person in order to make yourself look better, smarter, or more important. I have a warning for congressional Democrats and their media. Stop your incessant attacks on President Donald Trump. If you want to get America’s respect, then earn […]

State Parks proposed to add a campground and off-highway vehicle (OHV) staging area at the Oso Flaco Lake day use area to facilitate access to the existing Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area (SVRA). Better access points to the OHV area would be through the Railroad Avenue, Silver Spur Place, or Callender Road, locations considered […]

I would like to respond to Mark Henry’s opinion piece “Green Dreamin’” (Feb. 21) with a letter I recently sent to U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara): Dear Congressman Carbajal, I have reviewed the goals of the Green New Deal recently proposed as a congressional resolution. Although I agree with many of the overall goals of […]

Sometimes you just have to agree with the accusations that the immigration problems we face are our own fault. In fact the whole damn bunch of us should be sued for providing an “attractive nuisance.” It’s not the fault of the people who drag children to our borders with the hope of falsifying asylum claims […]