Letter: Using salt caves to store petroleum

It was more than baffling to read Brian Maffly’s fine article in the Christmas day edition of The Tribune on the engineering of salt caves beneath central Utah lands to create voids for the storage of gasoline and other hydrocarbons piped from Uintah Basin and other Utah locations. Aside from the potential hazards of underground storage of a liquid bomb, what’s puzzling about it is the juxtaposition of this technological stretch, contrasted to the intuitively obvious idea of the salt