SLO County has no reason to be fearful of Phillips 66
As I sat at the San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission meeting on Friday, I listened to people speak against the Phillips 66 oil-by-rail project. I realized that they were afraid, fearful of a company that has been around for 60 years.
I wondered how these people lived to be in their 60s and 70s.
Saul Alinsky would be proud. In his book, “Rules for Radicals,” rules Nos. 2 and 3 are about the importance of fear. That is, all we have to read about Phillips 66, we should be afraid of their bomb trains, the blast area.
It has been one fear fest after another.
I grew up in a very different country; my country was and is fearless. I live in the U.S. The only thing I am afraid of is the Sierra Club getting too big for its britches and controlling the way I live.
S.C. Tannler, Morro Bay
This story was originally published February 10, 2016 at 5:28 AM with the headline "SLO County has no reason to be fearful of Phillips 66."