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Support House bill
to keep Diablo open
The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant is California’s largest power plant and our largest source of safe, clean, low-cost energy in the state. It’s scheduled to close by 2025 with no firm plan to replace this much reliable generation.
After a career developing renewable energy projects in California and throughout the West, I estimate it will take California 10 years to make up that much equivalent clean-energy generation with wind and solar, and it won’t be as reliable. Even the California Independent System Operator who manages the electric grid sees an increased risk without Diablo.
Rep. Devin Nunes and a group of other California congressmen have introduced HR 4394 in the House, which would keep Diablo Canyon open beyond 2025 plus encourage the development of additional nuclear energy in our state. It’s the best choice for our clean energy future. Please contact your congressman urging them to support this bill.
Matthew Penry
Aptos
We have water usage
problem, not supply
A Letter to the Editor from Marcia Fariss of Saratoga (“Development outpacing state’s water supply,” Page A12, Oct. 24) says we don’t have enough water for all the people in the Bay Area in the first place, so we can’t build more housing. This “we don’t have enough water” line is a talking point from the “overturn SB 9 and SB 10” obstructionists.
A recent post on Nextdoor from a Los Altos Hills resident said her normal water bill was $300 a month and last month it was $2,700. Obviously, she has a leak. But this is the thing: Our household water bill, for two adults, last month was $33, as in this woman’s normal water bill is 10 times mine. Even when there were five in our household and I watered all summer long, the highest water bill I ever got was $170.
We don’t have a water problem, we have a usage problem.
Deborah Goldeen
Palo Alto
S.F.: Liberal dystopia
or world’s best city?
Readers of conservative publications must think San Francisco is hell on Earth. The widely shared June 14 Walgreens shoplifting video really catalyzed an exponential increase in stories about pervasive theft, homelessness, streets littered with needles and feces, and a government full of radicals.
Over the past six months, National Review has run four different stories about shoplifting in the city. Recent stories from Fox News and Breitbart described San Francisco’s shoplifting problem as “rampant.” A Daily Wire article accused the “woke” D.A. Chesa Boudin of making excuses for the Walgreens shoplifter).
Readers of these publications willing to leave their ideological bubble may be shocked to find most people still love the city, so much so that Time Out crowned it “World’s Best City.”
Jacob Lafarga
San Francisco
Supreme Court no longer
serves all the people
On Oct. 29 the Supreme Court announced it was open to reviewing the power of the EPA to curb emissions, a few months after Republicans packed the court and despite climate change being more and more of an obvious crisis with each passing day.
It is clear the court has been captured by narrow, moneyed interests who want to stop environmental regulation and a woman’s right to choose, regardless of what the majority of this country wants. The nomination processes undertaken by the Republican Congress were all rushed jokes. The FBI received thousands of tips about Justice Brett Kavanaugh that were never followed up. Now we have to live with a stolen branch of government.
I know there are millions of Americans who are not fooled by this. We deserve a Supreme Court that works for us, not one that is owned by billionaires.
Mathew Clark
Campbell
Source: www.mercurynews.com