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Oakland’s one-sided
resolution shameful
Re: “Council passes a cease-fire resolution” (Page B1, Nov. 29).
Shame, for Shame that the Oakland City Council rebuked Israel’s bombing of Gaza, but didn’t mention Hamas’ murder of 1200 Israelis and kidnapping of 240 hostages.
Shame, for shame that the resolution calls for a cease-fire, but didn’t mention that cease-fire existed until Oct. 7, when Hamas initiated its brutal attack.
Shame, for shame that Oakland’s resolution blames only Israel for thousands of Gazans’ deaths, but didn’t mention that Hamas purposefully located its military equipment and command centers in and near schools, hospitals and residential buildings specifically to use civilians as human shields.
Shame, for shame that the resolution failed to acknowledge Hamas’ intent was to cause damage to its own people in an attempt to generate anti-Israel sentiment, like that exhibited at the Oakland City Council meeting on Nov. 27.
Shame, for shame that Oakland’s City Council members have become Hamas’ useful tools.
Bruce Joffe
Piedmont
PUC decisions a
boon for PG&E only
Re: “State consumer price regulation often protects the companies” (Page A6, Nov. 29).
Dan Walters correctly says the CPUC acts to protect PG&E’s financial health. However, he muffed their decision on rooftop solar.
Their decision to trash rooftop solar economics wasn’t about making solar less lucrative, although it forcibly does that. It was about sabotaging one of our best solutions to climate disruption to fund more long-distance transmission lines that cause wildfires, are prone to outages and vulnerable to attack, and — fundamentally — are immensely expensive thus boosting PG&E’s profits at the expense not only of home solar, but of everyone in California.
Now, instead of cheaper, cleaner, safer, more resilient, all-around better rooftop solar, we’ll have more huge rate hikes on top of already one of the country’s highest electric rates. Goodbye local power, hello PG&E mega-profits.
Doug McKenzie
Berkeley
Source: www.mercurynews.com