To the editor: It’s good to see one other innovation in our quest to affect the economic system, particularly the automobile sector (“Will electrical tractors achieve traction? At a pilot occasion for farmers, researchers see potentialities,” Sept. 24). The article states that “diesel would should be far more costly for the economics to show sharply in favor of electrical.”
Placing a value on the carbon content material of fuels would accomplish this. The worth of fuels ought to embody the fee to society of burning them. These embody prices associated to elevated quantity and ferocity of hurricanes, rising sea ranges, longer and extra frequent intervals of drought, and elevated prevalence of wildfires.
Murray Zichlinsky, Lengthy Seaside
