Who are these people who think that the rest of us do not deserve electricity, heat in our homes, and everything else that depends upon natural gas? Read on as Mechanicsville resident, Travis Clements asks the question: "do protesters realize we all need electricity?"

From the article:

"I read with interest the recent news article on the pipeline protesters. The most interesting part was a comment from a protester that was something to the effect that if they delay long enough, investors will get tired of spending money fighting them.

Who are these people who think that the rest of us do not deserve electricity, heat in our homes, and everything else that depends upon natural gas? Whom do they think they are taking money from? For more than 30 days they wasted the time of police officers — four officers per shift, 24 hours a day, for 30-plus days comes to more than $100,000 per protester. Those are taxpayers’ dollars. The protesters need to reimburse me for my taxes.

Dominion is mandated to provide electricity to its customers. It conducts studies to determine what is needed now and what will be needed in the future. The government has agreed the pipeline is needed — and once it is built, the protesters will never even know it is there. Pipelines already exist all over the country and they don’t blow up every day. We need electricity.

It doesn’t matter what anyone wants to build — someone is going to protest. Windmills were proposed in Highland County until the plans were dropped because of protests. The ones built in Botetourt are still being protested. The proposed hydro plant in Tazewell will probably be protested.

Do these people realize that to have their laptops, smartphones, plug-in hybrids, and so on, they have to have electricity? We have to have infrastructure unless folks plan on using candles and smoke signals.

So to conclude, I say to the protesters: Get over it. We need electricity and I’m tired of you wasting my money."

 Read the full article and more in the Richmond Times-Dispatch