To the editor: With regard to your article (“Newsom’s push to cut back fossil fuels is clashing with California’s thirst for gasoline,” Aug. 11), why are Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic members of the state Legislature stunned?
The Legislature passes payments that primarily are supposed to attain factors and do extra to harass oil firms than they do to cut back air air pollution. Newsom applauds these political payments and urges them to go extra.
A few years in the past, Democrats within the Legislature pretended to be petroleum engineers and designed a cool political sort of gasoline not utilized by the opposite 49 states. This political gasoline is the one variety allowed to be bought in California. It’s extra pricey to make and may solely be made by oil refineries modified at nice expense.
When oil firms cost extra for this extra-cost gasoline, Newsom accuses them of value gouging. If California can’t discover oil refiners exterior the U.S. who’re prepared to switch their refineries to make “California-only” gasoline, and who’re prepared to place up with the state authorities’s false acquisitions and harassment, some homeowners of gasoline-powered automobiles must relearn their childhood abilities at using bicycles.
Gordon Binder, Pasadena
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To the editor: All this Sturm und Drang over the closing of two refineries in California is misplaced. Any severe examine of market traits would conclude that the top of inner combustion can be as quickly as 2035, a mere decade from now. As a substitute of telling readers {that a} discount in oil refining goes to trigger value will increase due to a shortage of gasoline, level them within the path of getting off of gasoline solely by switching to an electrical automobile.
People purchase greater than 40,000 new automobiles — about 3,300 of them are EVs — each single day on common. The most cost effective gasoline automobile is a primary econobox from Nissan for about $17,000. That a lot cash will purchase you a superb used EV that can serve you higher with out polluting the air or supporting oil firms. And because you aren’t shopping for gasoline, demand goes down, decreasing the necessity to increase costs.
I’d prefer to see California use the skills of our movie trade to supply commercials that dissuade of us from shopping for new gasoline automobiles. Scale back demand for gasoline automobiles and we’ll get to the top of inner combustion before later.
Paul Scott, Santa Monica
