The only reason that the oil and gas companies are able to make such excessive profit is because they externalize their costs. Who pays those costs? Not only the residents of Colorado, now and well into the future, who pay with their health and the associated health care costs, but also the employees of the oil and gas industry, who risk their health and their lives so the CEOs and shareholders of these companies can make millions and millions of dollars, for example the Koch brothers.
Multiple studies in multiple states have confirmed the ill effects of oil and gas industry practices. Oil and gas production is not only detrimental to our health and well being, but will jeopardize the ability to sustain life on this planet.
We have to cut back on fossil fuels in favor of energy sources that will not put our health, the health of the employees and the health of future generations at risk. It is past time to put an end to this practice of profiting at the expense of others.
As we shut down the fossil fuel industry, we will have the ability to build a stronger economy with better, safer, and more resilient energy and jobs that benefit the whole and not just the few.
Vote against the Koch brothers and the industry that is poisoning us for profit, and vote YES on Prop 112.
Brian Gaddy
Durango
