To the editor: Former Obama advisor David Axelrod tweeted: “One of many issues that galls People about our politics is the impulse of politicians to weaponize issues for political revenue as a substitute of fixing them.”
Sadly, this Editorial Board too usually weaponizes vitality realities whereas demonizing our business. Power realities are robust. They’re not free.
As your individual columnist Gustavo Arellano wrote final yr, banning vitality makes for unhealthy coverage that solely works for rich Californians.
Power realities have to be defined for all residents, particularly younger folks. Everybody embraces the thought of free and low-cost vitality options, however the precise prices of a rushed transition will devastate those self same younger folks’s financial future.
“Bans within the identify of saving the Earth virtually at all times fall on the very folks they declare to uplift.” Arellano mentioned it completely. We in oil and gasoline welcome your time to point out how we’re certainly working in good religion.
Catherine Reheis-Boyd, president and chief government, Western States Petroleum Affiliation, Sacramento
