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Conversion to EVs
already underway
Re. “State’s ban on gas-powered autos gained’t be simple process,” Web page A7, Aug. 30:
Please inform Dan Walters that the transition to electrical autos (EVs) has already begun. The California Inexperienced Constructing Code requires new tasks to offer for EV charging stations.
Many current companies, together with procuring facilities and auto dealerships, are already voluntarily offering EV charging stations, together with ADA-accessible stations, and have been doing so for at the very least the final 5 years.
Mr. Walters may also need to learn right now’s Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson which signifies that automakers together with Ford and GM are constructing battery crops in the USA in states like Kentucky that can make use of 8,000 staff.
The steam engine fueled the economic revolution, nevertheless, the revolution didn’t actually get going till James Watt made refinements to the steam engine. Maybe among the challenges Mr. Walters refers to can be solved by a future James Watt.
Gerald Veiluva
Oakland
As a substitute of charging
batteries, change them
If we’re going to have a future the place most individuals drive electrical automobiles, we should always assume by way of altering the battery in our automotive moderately than ready round for our battery to be charged.
In an excellent world, all automobiles would run on perhaps two or three normal batteries. The automotive could be designed in order that the battery might be faraway from beneath the automotive by an automatic machine which then plugs in a completely charged substitute. Out and in in minutes. Stations with a row of those machines would exchange gasoline stations on interstates or different routes the place automobiles have to journey lengthy distances.
Such a facility would require a considerable provide of energy so it may keep the wanted stock of absolutely charged batteries. No less than the supply of that energy, akin to a big photo voltaic array, might be concentrated on the level of want.
Stan Hurd
Pleasanton
With out daring steps like
EVs, ski journeys canceled
Re. “State’s ban on gas-powered autos gained’t be simple process,” Web page A7, Aug. 30:
In his issues about banning gross sales of latest EVs, Dan Walters asks, “Let’s say somebody dwelling in San Francisco wished to drive to Lake Tahoe for snowboarding?”
Sadly, he fully misses the irony in his query; there gained’t be any snow for snowboarding with out this transition to renewable fuels. Or Lake Tahoe for that matter.
Michelle Henninger
San Jose
Prop. 47 has led to
out-of-control crime
We have now arrived on the boiling level of petty crime and it continues to escalate as a consequence of no management or repercussions due to Proposition 47.
Catalytic converters, vans and automobiles stolen at a really excessive stage, vandalism to autos, tires stolen, and procuring carts and luggage loaded with items stroll out the door of any enterprise. It’s a rampage endlessly. I’ve been informed by many retailers there’s nothing we will do.
How lengthy will such a theft proceed? Who’s going to ultimately take an curiosity in stopping this habits? At instances folks have the catalytic converter changed solely to have it stolen once more. So far as the companies are involved, the patron can pay the loss.
Ann Fagliano
Castro Valley
Deaths below Trump
far exceed Bush’s
Mr. Nicholas Goldberg in his piece “Keep in mind when George W. Bush was considered historical past’s worst?” (Web page A6, Aug. 31) states that President George W. Bush’s “insurance policies led to much more deaths than Trump’s did.” This solely holds true if fight deaths are the only criterion.
In actuality, the general impact of Trump’s insurance policies resulted in additional deaths, by orders of magnitude, than Bush was ever accountable for.
Final 12 months, the Lancet Fee on Public Coverage and Well being within the Trump Period concluded that Trump’s insurance policies, or lack of them, contributed to the deaths of round 461,000 People in 2018. In 2019, the dismantling of environmental safety measures alone prompted 22,000 deaths. Moreover, 40% of deaths from COVID-19 may have been prevented if the USA had the identical COVID dying charges as different G7 nations.
About 7,000 People died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump possible contributed to over 700,000 American deaths.
Bruce Mendenhall
Newark
Arise for restored
nationwide monuments
Final 12 months, President Biden restored Bears Ears Nationwide Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante Nationwide Monument in southeastern Utah as nationwide monuments after they had been downsized by former President Trump in 2017 in favor of mining and logging. Former President Invoice Clinton designated Grand Staircase-Escalante in 1996 and former President Barack Obama designated Bears Ears in 2016. Each are sacred to the Ute, Navajo and Zuni folks. Their artifacts are each cliff dwellings and petroglyphs.
Nevertheless, state leaders in Utah are suing President Biden over his resolution. By suing the president, these leaders are doing the bidding of the mining and logging corporations that need to desecrate these lands.
Billy Trice Jr.
Oakland
