Olympic Pipeline explosion in Bellingham. To Robert's main menu. Smoke over downtown Bellingham as it was starting to subside. From my letters to the editors. Higher oil cost may be a blessing in disguise Three deaths, caused by the Olympic Pipe Line leak, has gotten our community to pause from its day to day life and think about pipeline safety.
Pipeline safety is important, but an even bigger threat lies at the consumer end of the pipe.
Thousands of people die each year in traffic fatalities while they are consuming the product that oil pipelines deliver. Just think how much better this world would be if the entire community stopped to think each time it suffered a traffic fatality. It might get people to drive more carefully and sparingly. It might get more people to wear seat belts. It might get more drunk drivers off the road.