Sloppy Planning Mars Fuel Pipeline Project
The Longhorn is a large, just-finished pipeline running from outside Houston to El Paso, where a connecting pipeline was supposed to deliver the fuel to Tucson and Phoenix (“Fuel Pipeline Built, but Relief Isn’t Delivered,” March 26).
This was expected to relieve Arizona’s heavy dependence on California for gasoline and other petroleum products.
It amazes me that the preliminary planning did not reveal that the connecting pipeline was already too full, that the Longhorn ends in a bottleneck and that a new connecting pipeline will have to be built.
Who is responsible for this sloppy performance?
Leonardo Chait
Pacific Palisades
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