Photo voltaic Vitality
Whereas Individuals are falling behind on their utility payments, Australia has constructed a lot photo voltaic that it’s going to quickly supply a lot of its residents three hours a day of free electrical energy. When photo voltaic output is excessive in mid-day, Australians will be capable to run their washers, or sustain their AC for no value in any respect.
Why can’t we now have that? The solar shines right here too, particularly within the South.
Sadly, the EPA canceled grants for “Photo voltaic for All” that have been already dedicated by the earlier Congress. Low and middle-income owners, who might have been including photo voltaic to their properties, now lack the start-up funds.
Different applications that assist save us cash, just like the Vitality Star program to fee effectivity in home equipment, have been additionally slated for elimination by the president’s proposed FY2026 funds. Congress might maintain Vitality Star within the funds in any case, however this administration stays hostile to energy-saving measures that decrease the income of their fossil gasoline donors.
Name Senators Markey and Warren, and your Congressperson, and inform them to defend clear power and power effectivity funds within the FY2026 funds. Let’s catch as much as Australia and assist everybody pay their payments.
Mary Memmott
Framingham
Bipartisanship
Regards the federal government shutdown, it took the airways cancelling flights to lastly finish it. By no means thoughts the meals stamps mess or the staff laid off, jet planes obtained the eye of Congress. I understand how necessary jets are. Getting house for our troops and others is essential. Preserve ’em flying! Now we now have some cooperation between politicians and a few small diploma of concord. That’s how America works greatest. Pooling our assets and brains can create a path to actual peace. Hopefully we’ll keep heading in the right direction.
Tom King
North Bennington, VT
Hub spending
I’m confused by Mayor Michelle Wu’s actions (“Oh Canada,” Nov. 18). Final week Wu was on the information stating that many households in Boston are not sure the place their subsequent meal was coming from. After I heard this I went to the Higher Boston Meals Financial institution and donated $100 price of meals.
This week I learn the information and it said that Wu’s household journey to Canada the place she chopped down the Boston Christmas tree value $5,000 in taxpayer funds. My first response was this have to be faux information, given the dire want for meals in Boston, however I used to be improper.
I’m completely disillusioned that Mayor Wu thinks she will do no matter she desires with our (hard-earned) taxpayer {dollars}. The scary half is she will do precisely that, and there may be nothing any of us hard-working taxpayers can do about it.
Michael Westen
Malden
