Mobil Oil’s Pipeline

Lake’s objection to a replacement pipeline is typical of the provincialism of many Southland residents. They seem to believe that they are uniquely able to guzzle oil that has been produced somewhere else at the expense of the environment in some other region, transported through some other ocean or some other right of way in order for Los Angeles, the No. 1 environmental polluter in the world, to nurture its population’s love affair with the auto.

My suggestion is that to the extent offshore oil wells are prohibited, replacement pipelines barred, new refineries unbuilt and oil tankers routed elsewhere, gasoline and other oil products be rationed or denied to the citizens of Los Angeles.

EARL M. CRANSTON

Palm Desert