Stop pipeline, look to renewables

To Mr. Fore and your (former Enron) cohorts, The proposed Kinder Morgan Permian Highway Pipeline would place a leaking, exploding, air-polluting, water-contaminating, property-devaluing, cheaply-made, hastily-installed and poorly-maintained pipeline through the fastest-growing county in Texas (Hays), regardless of imminent damage to endangered species, our land, our aquifer and our lives - for the sole sake of your company’s profit.

The dirty, fracked natural gas this pipeline would carry is meant to be sold to Mexico, China and the rest of the world, yielding billion$ in annual profit for KM, while simultaneously bringing the planetary environment increased carbon, increased temperatures (well beyond safe limits), cataclysmic climate change and unknown depths of misery and death for the people of the future on this, our beloved Mother Earth.

To Kinder Morgan, and all fossil fuel profiteers: You assume the resources are there for your taking and your gain; You act shortsightedly, shamefully and arrogantly with no trace of conscience for the consequences of your actions; You act as if we have another planet to go to in the not-so-distant future; Face it: the time for fossil fuels is UP!

Oil and gas is all we knew a century ago. But we now have BETTER and CHEAPER WAYS to provide energy - that DO NO HARM. It’s time to get your greedy heads out of the (tar) sand, put on the white hat, COWBOY UP...... AND DO THE RIGHT THING: cease and desist.

Of course, there’s still a chance to make a few bucks. Here’s a hot tip: Stop destroying our planet, start thinking of generations to come - for a change - and invest in renewables instead. Your stockholders’ grandchildren will thank you.

Susan “Purly” Gates

Lame Hoss Ln.,

Driftwood, TX