A headline in the News Tribune on July 20 read, "Northland College divesting oil, coal and gas investments." "Hypocritical" and "cowardly" were two words that immediately jumped into my mind.
Let the college's board of trustees and its student activists get rid of their autos, their bicycles, their smartphones, and their ballpoint pens, ad infinitum. These items all require fuel, lubrication, and/or plastic - all of which has a petroleum origin. Think plastic bumpers on vehicles. Let all of them go back to walking shoes and wooden pencils.
And heaven forbid the trustees and student activists (can't forget the student activists; they run the colleges) selectively use petroleum-based products on the sly so as not to be exposed as users of petroleum.
H. John Strom
Houston, Texas
