To the editor: What an ideal analogy. Your brake fluid is dangerously low, so that you simply add extra brake fluid. If the housing provide is low, you simply add extra housing (“How unhealthy is California’s housing scarcity? It is dependent upon who’s doing the counting,” Sept. 27).
Let me broaden on this a bit. Your brake fluid could be low for one in every of two causes. The primary cause is that your brake linings (the friction materials that truly stops the automotive) have worn down a lot that the quantity of brake fluid used to push the pads or footwear to contact the disks or drums must be a lot higher to fill the void attributable to the worn friction materials. In the event you simply hold including brake fluid as an alternative of addressing the core drawback, the steel backing plate of the liner will ultimately contact the drum or rotor and your brakes will fail. The outcome will probably be a crash.
The second cause to your fluid being low is that you’ve got a leak within the hydraulic system. You’ll be able to hold including brake fluid, however as everybody is aware of, leaks don’t repair themselves. Finally, the hydraulic system will fail and as soon as once more, you’ll crash.
To deliver it again round: When the politicians work out find out how to clear up our site visitors congestion, our continual water and vitality shortages, our scarcity of police and fireplace reserves, our billion-dollar metropolis deficits and multi-billion-dollar state deficit, our crime, our gangs and our lack of infrastructure restore, then we are able to add some brake fluid.
William Manning, West Hills
..
To the editor: This text’s concentrate on the shortage of consensus on the definition of “scarcity” misses the mark. It’s not a scarcity of housing; it’s an extra of individuals and the woeful lack of current sources to help even those who’re right here at present.
Are we presupposed to imagine that the state’s new top-down mandates to tear aside neighborhoods and native zoning to drive the creation of chaotic, dense human warehouses with out sufficient parking, water, vitality, foliage and clear air make California a greater place? Stumps me.
Mark Algorri, Pasadena
