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Tweaks assist older
planes use newer gasoline
Re. “Leaded airplane gasoline harms each group,” Web page A6, Feb. 11:
Lack of leaded gasoline was a problem within the Nineteen Eighties for auto and motorbike engines designed to run on it; tetraethyl lead lubricated valve guides that have been too gentle for unleaded and prevented pre-ignition knocking in high-compression motors.
Plane engines are 40 years behind the curve, as is the gasoline trade supporting these old-tech engines. Hardened valve guides with improved valve metals, together with lowered compression, have efficiently allowed older engines to thrive and survive with trendy gasoline.
Nick Foster
San Jose
State leaders should act
to decrease vitality costs
PG&E is once more elevating our electrical energy charges (“PG& E payments are set to leap once more this yr,” Web page C7, Feb. 11).
We already pay a few of the best charges within the nation. Our pure fuel costs have been 81% greater in December than a yr earlier.
I hope that everybody is aware of that these multi-million greenback fines on PG&E are simply handed on to us, the ratepayers.
These greater prices damage the middle- and lower-income people essentially the most.
It’s time for Gov. Gavin Newson and our Legislature to search for methods to chop our utility prices. In any case most different states have discovered methods to maintain charges far decrease than California. If they'll have decrease charges, we should always too.
We voters should demand motion.
Brian McCormick
San Jose
Give PG&E a break on
fines for burying traces
Re. “PG&E: $9B to $13.5B to bury energy traces,” Web page A1, Feb. 11:
I feel it's nice and about time that PG&E is lastly contemplating burying energy traces. I feel it could be affordable to take a greenback off of the massive fines which are being levied in opposition to the corporate for each greenback spent bettering their infrastructure by burying traces underground. It might additionally assist to companion up with cable and water corporations to work collectively and get all the utilities in the identical underground conduit.
How do fines serve the end-user? This plan would serve them with out elevating charges whereas bettering reliability.
Jarret Winter
Soquel
Memorial a marker
on path to our beliefs
Thanks for highlighting the brand new memorial honoring Japanese Americans detained on the previous Tanforan Racetrack (“Groundbreaking of memorial lauded,” Web page B1, Feb. 12).
My late father, James C. Purcell, represented a few of these detainees. He was appalled by the circumstances at Tanforan, which he described as “a jail with watchtowers and guards.” His father was a guard at Folsom Jail, so my dad knew what a jail appeared like. He needed to meet together with his shoppers of their residing quarters. “They’d put a household in a stall sufficiently big for one horse, with whitewash over the manure,” he advised us. Later, my father would efficiently argue Ex Parte Endo earlier than the USA Supreme Courtroom.
As a rustic, we've made some strides in combatting racism however we nonetheless have a protracted option to go to reside as much as our beliefs. Hopefully, this memorial will assist us get there.
Jim Purcell
Los Gatos
GOP has deserted
the social gathering’s moderates
With the GOP declaring that the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol was merely “extraordinary residents engaged in respectable public discourse,” (“GOP: Jan. 6 ‘respectable political discourse,’” Web page A1, Feb. 5 https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/05/gop-declares-jan-6-attack-legitimate-political-discourse-4/) average Republicans and true conservatives not must debate leaving the Republican Celebration. It has already left them.
Scott Stanford
Mountain View