Former HuffPo contributor Barry Sanders is at it again. Last month Sanders wrote a horribly misinformed article for the Huffington Post on “the military’s addiction to oil.” The piece was riddled with factual errors, and when the WWS and others pointed a few out, Arianna threw the guy under the bus with an editor’s note canceling the series and saying of Sanders’s defense, “it confuses as much as it clarifies.” At the time Sanders apologized for his failure “to reach an absolutely authoritative [read factually accurate] version of this essay” by explaining that he was “not a mathematician, not a military person, not a trained climatologist.” Yet despite that epiphany, he’s still at it, peddling bogus statistics about the fuel consumption of the U.S. military. But this time it’s worse. Now he’s feeding the same bad numbers that got him dumped from HuffPo to journalism students. Mollie McWilliams, a staff writer for the Golden Gate [X] Press, a publication run by the San Francisco State University Journalism Department, has interviewed Sanders for a piece called “Pollution and war meet in the Green Zone.” She writes:
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