Dec. 9, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: Individuals have the reminiscence of a goldfish. Simply two pages previous the letter writers advocating for California’s first fuel pipeline is a narrative a couple of spill of greater than 4,000 gallons of oil and contaminated wastewater in southern Monterey County (“Letters to the Editor: Despite the environmental concerns, a gas pipeline would benefit Californians,” Dec. 3; “4,000 gallons of oil, contaminated wastewater spill in Monterey County,” Dec. 5). Yep, it was on account of a pipeline failure.
Too unhealthy these readers apparently don’t bear in mind the 2015 Santa Barbara oil spill, nor the 2010 Deepwater Horizon one, not to mention the 1969 Santa Barbara one. We’re like chickens within the henhouse after a fox leaves with a lifeless buddy in its mouth. As soon as all the joy dies down, we neglect about the entire incident. That’s how we bought into this political mess within the first place.
Bella Silverstein, Santa Clarita
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To the editor: The professional-pipeline voices describe the sluggish progress in creating the infrastructure for an all-electric society as a justification. Additionally trotted out is the tried-and-true consider-the-disadvantage argument.
Sorely lacking right here is “What can I, as a person, do to assist?” You may scale back your private calls for on the infrastructure, each electrical and fossil power sources. Stroll, trip a motorbike, take public transit.
I’m actually uninterested in listening to, “It’s too sluggish and inconvenient.” To suppose that the local weather disaster goes to be much less inconvenient is head-in-the-sand denial. Most of us should purchase an electrical automotive and implement photo voltaic power storage, which goes to be lots cheaper in the long term. It’s a matter of shifting one’s priorities.
The power industries (utilities and oil) are doing every thing they will to guard their egregious income on the expense of all of us, particularly the deprived. These pro-pipeline letters within the Dec. 7 Los Angeles Occasions assist them.
Gregg Ferry, Carlsbad
