When sweet crude oil drilling rigs and pipelines fail, they are
a mess.  When tar sands and/or fracking drilling rigs and
distribution methods fail, they are a health hazard and a
disaster.  Most recently just last Friday, in Mayflower, Ark.,
where a 20-inch pipeline ruptured and tar sands oil flowed down
the streets of an upscale residential neighborhood and into
public storm water drainage systems.  Both the Yellowstone and
Kalamazoo rivers have been similarly and recently polluted by
ruptured tar sands oil pipelines.  The time for research and
development of clean, sustainable energy sources and
conservation was about 40 years ago. President Jimmy Carter had
it right.  Put on a sweater, hug your kids and grandchildren,
call your representatives and tell them that fracking and the
Keystone XL tar sands pipeline must be stopped.