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Chevron gas claims
don’t maintain as much as scrutiny
Re: “Chevron touts renewable gasoline as different to EVs” (Web page C8, April 18).
Chevron introduced the event of low-carbon renewable gasoline.
Its claims of 40%-95% discount of CO2 emissions don’t stand as much as scrutiny; the feedstock is reused cooling oil. Whereas reuse is sweet, fossil gas is probably going used to course of oil into gasoline. The declare {that a} hybrid car may have a carbon footprint similar to a pure EV can be unsupportable; roughly two years after manufacture, present EVs have nearly no further carbon footprint if they’re charged utilizing renewable power.
Chevron’s product could permit gasoline automobile house owners to postpone a brand new automobile buy which is sweet. Nevertheless, their gasoline will likely be dearer. The remainder of Chevron’s claims are merely “green-washing.”
Altering local weather calls for the elimination of fossil fuels as quickly as potential whereas serving to individuals financially by way of the transition. Current laws, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation and Inflation Discount Act, goal to try this.
Campbell Scott
Los Gatos
Cease insurers from
denying canine protection
Insurance coverage corporations in California could legally cost extra for protection or deny insurance policies to individuals who personal particular breeds of canine, together with pit bulls, Dobermans and a number of other different massive breeds.
That is unfair to accountable pet house owners and to well-behaved canine. It additionally could make it tough for some individuals to seek out housing in an already difficult housing market.
Meeting Invoice 703, which can forestall such dog-breed discrimination is at present into consideration within the California Meeting. Please electronic mail or cellphone your Meeting consultant and ask them to help AB 703.
Judith Hurley
San Jose
Restorative practices
are proper name for colleges
College self-discipline has a big impression on the classroom and faculty environments, pupil interpersonal relationships and psychological well being. Many colleges, significantly in the US, usually default to exclusionary practices as a type of self-discipline. A single suspension can have important adverse results, together with reducing highschool completion charges. Whereas the advantages of restorative practices have lengthy been documented as being a extra simply, efficient and relational different to suspensions and expulsions, the challenges of implementation haven’t been adequately addressed.
I urge your readers to think about the impression on the scholars of our future if our colleges don’t make a change to good implementation of restorative practices, which incorporates supporting our academics in doing so. Any member of the general public is free to attend and submit considerations to their native college board conferences.
Cecilia Hoshiko
San Jose
Quitting Twitter will
train Musk a lesson
I’m carried out with Twitter and Elon Musk. His foolish assault on NPR — an vital useful resource that has been serving Individuals of all political persuasions for a few years — has led me to grasp
