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Cost of keeping
fossil fuel too high
Responding to the letter from Richard Williams about the cost of switching from fossil fuels (“Switch from fossil fuels is a costly transition,” Page A6, April 1), the author fails to mention the cost of not switching away from fossil fuels. If you digest what scientists are saying, our way of life is being destroyed by fossil fuel use much faster than we were able to predict 20 years ago.
It’s short-sighted to say it’s this or that … fossil fuels or renewables. The cost of gas at the pump is moot when you think about us not having a life on the planet.
The solution is a sit-down, ongoing discussion with the oil companies admitting their corrupt policy of leading us down this path and hastily getting busy working toward phasing down fossil fuel production while massively subsidizing renewable energy to maintain a steady-state Earth. Show the world how to do this.
Lawrence Danos
Hayward
We’re not yet ready
to quit fossil fuels
Regarding the letter “Time and again we see dangers of fossil fuels” (Page A12, April 3), the writer claims we needlessly depend on fossil fuels. We don’t have a choice today because solar only represents 2% of the world’s energy. People who can afford an electric vehicle or don’t mind paying $6 a gallon for gas can say want they want to say, but for poorer communities, gas prices are a real hardship. What can they do? Work two jobs.
When solar along with electric vehicles are cheap, that is when we can stop our dependence on fossil fuels.
Forest fire pollution is a problem, and the government needs to do more to alleviate massive fires by thinning the forest. The government also needs to deal with coal-consuming countries like China, which uses more than half of the world’s coal.
Douglas Abbott
Union City
Students deserve a yes
on Livermore Measure A
Livermore School District students enjoy lab experiments in their bi-weekly, hands-on science classes. They learn about the elements of the scientific method by formulating a hypothesis, observing the interaction of the materials and measuring the impact of the interaction. The lessons are taught by science specialists — teachers who have earned a single-subject credential in life/physical science. Livermore receives $4 million from a $138 annual parcel tax to fund this program and others.
If Measure A fails to pass, these hands-on science classes will end. Teachers could be reassigned — they have already been notified — or they could be laid off. Credentialed technology teachers could be reassigned — they have been notified as well. The support the technology specialists provide improves student learning — helping them be successful in this digital age.
Our students need your support. Vote yes on Livermore Measure A.
Cate Sarraille
Livermore
Hypocrisy in US war
crimes accusations
Re. “US formally accuses Putin of war crimes,” Page A1, March 24:
President Biden should listen to his people at the Pentagon. If he did, he would not have made such a hypocritical statement.
Julian Assange is in Belmarsh Prison in England awaiting extradition for printing war crimes of the U.S. military in Iraq. If we are to be consistent, George W. Bush should be tried alongside Mr. Putin; perhaps they could share a cell. In this insane world, the United States will sanction the International Criminal Court if it brought any charges against U.S. personnel. So much for war crimes.
Mr. Zelenskyy is hardened by support from other countries which means a wider if not a longer war.
Robert Sinuhe
Oakland
Conservatives don’t call
for silencing others
It never ceases to amaze me how the liberal readers consistently resort to their favorite fallback position: Stop watching Fox News and don’t read conservative editorials.
On the other hand, as a reader of this newspaper for 45 years, I never see conservatives suggest that liberals stop watching MSNBC, CNN or stop reading liberal columnists like Leonard Pitts.
Maybe, just maybe, we conservatives simply want the constitutionally granted ability to see diverse opinions.
Heed the saying: “Those with the weakest arguments want others to be silenced.” Many thanks to this newspaper for continuing to print diverse views despite the continual pressure from liberals to exclude them.
Steve Mahler
Livermore
Daily mail delivery is
still critical for many
Regarding Martin Wilmington’s letter on reducing the frequency of USPS deliveries to three days a week as opposed to replacing the postal service’s entire fleet of vehicles (“To cut USPS emissions, reduce delivery days,” Page A12, April 3), not everything can wait. Some of us who rely on medications and such being delivered on a timely basis count on the current delivery schedule.
June Wong
Pleasanton
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