Dec. 9, 2025 7 AM PT <\/p>\n
To the editor: Americans have the memory of a goldfish. Just two pages past the letter writers advocating for California\u2019s first gas pipeline is a story about a spill of more than 4,000 gallons of oil and contaminated wastewater in southern Monterey County (\u201cLetters to the Editor: Despite the environmental concerns, a gas pipeline would benefit Californians,\u201d<\/a> Dec. 3; \u201c4,000 gallons of oil, contaminated wastewater spill in Monterey County,\u201d<\/a> Dec. 5). Yep, it was due to a pipeline failure.<\/p>\n Too bad these readers apparently don\u2019t remember the 2015 Santa Barbara oil spill<\/a>, nor the 2010 Deepwater Horizon<\/a> one, let alone the 1969 Santa Barbara<\/a> one. We\u2019re like chickens in the henhouse after a fox leaves with a dead friend in its mouth. Once all the excitement dies down, we forget about the whole incident. That\u2019s how we got into this political mess in the first place.<\/p>\n Bella Silverstein, Santa Clarita<\/p>\n ..<\/p>\n To the editor: The pro-pipeline voices describe the slow progress in developing the infrastructure for an all-electric society as a justification. Also trotted out is the tried-and-true consider-the-disadvantage argument.<\/p>\n Sorely missing here is \u201cWhat can I, as an individual, do to help?\u201d You can reduce your personal demands on the infrastructure, both electric and fossil energy sources. Walk, ride a bike, take public transit.<\/p>\n I\u2019m really tired of hearing, \u201cIt\u2019s too slow and inconvenient.\u201d To think that the climate crisis is going to be less inconvenient is head-in-the-sand denial. Most of us can buy an electric car and implement solar energy storage, which is going to be a lot cheaper in the long run. It\u2019s a matter of shifting one\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n The energy industries (utilities and oil) are doing everything they can to protect their egregious profits at the expense of all of us, especially the disadvantaged. These pro-pipeline letters in the Dec. 7 Los Angeles Times help them.<\/p>\n Gregg Ferry, Carlsbad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 9, 2025 7 AM PT To the editor: Americans have the memory of a goldfish. Just two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49068,7,9,8,24093,2072,49063,1101,49065,8076,1838,63,8390,49062,49066,49067,49064,37209],"class_list":["post-87691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-bella-silverstein","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-dec","tag-editor","tag-first-gas-pipeline","tag-first-place","tag-gallon","tag-infrastructure","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-oil","tag-pipeline-failure","tag-pro-california-gas-pipeline-voice","tag-santa-barbara-oil-spill","tag-southern-monterey-county","tag-spill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}