Addiction to fossil fuel clear and evident
Responses to the damaged jet fuel pipeline clearly demonstrate our addiction to fossil fuels (Sept 20). Indicators are the angry intolerance of a few days delay to travel, unrealistic suggestions of how to guarantee future supply, involvement of the army and synchronisation of traffic lights to help speed tankers to the airport.
If similar emotional intensity and endeavour could be focused on global warming we would be well on the way to avoiding much greater disruption to our lives. Meanwhile, the Arctic ice melts and oil companies enthusiastically plan to suck more oil from an ice-free ocean. Clearly addiction results in irrational behaviour and poor decisions. Paul Broady Somerfield
Pipeline depiction
Al Nisbet’s depiction of the Auckland airport fuel pipeline (Sept 20) makes me wonder why it took a digger to destroy 30 years of flawless service.
Don’t throw stones
Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern is attacking the National Government for not doing anything about the leaking pipeline at Marsden Point. I want to point out that the Labour Government under Helen Clark in 2005 was told of the risk of leaks in that pipeline.
So what did they do? Not much obviously. I therefore put it to Ardern ‘‘never throw with stones, if you live in a glasshouse’’. Hans Andersen Ilam