I would like to remind the writers at The State News that writing unresearched and unsupported columns can be dangerous and misleading.

People who read your newspaper assume that what they are reading is mostly the truth when, in fact, much of what they are reading are the unfounded ramblings of young, undereducated ultraliberals.

Andrew Banyai’s column (“America must eliminate its oil dependency,” SN 1/8) began, “As much as I would like to write one of my typical columns in which I quote political leaders and shove facts and statistics down your throat to prove my point, I think I’m going to lay off this week.”

I knew what I was about to read was not a well-founded opinion on current events, but a 200-word essay pushing a liberal agenda.

Banyai wrote an oversimplified summary of events leading to the Gulf War and concluded that the conflict amounted to the bad U.S. government wanting to kill people for oil. He said all of the world’s problems can be solved with fuel cells.

Thanks to Banyai’s careless use of words, hundreds more students who read The State News now think the government is a bunch of warmongers, and, as a result have less pride in their country.

Thanks to Banyai, hundreds more students will think that magical fuel cells will solve the environmental problems on earth.

The entire column never mentioned the true causes of the Gulf War, or the fact that the clean water vapor given off by fuel cells is a much worse greenhouse gas than the carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide given off by internal combustion engines today.

Nor did it mention the catastrophic economic decline that would result from the revamp of the automobile industry.