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PG&E needs to make
a nasty system worse
Aaron Johnson from PG&E states that “PG&E doesn't add any markup on the power we purchase for purchasers use, neither gasoline nor electrical. What we pay, you pay.” (“Tricks to beat rising price of staying cool,” Web page A6, Aug. 30)
I disagree. As a photo voltaic buyer, I simply obtained my first “true up” invoice and it’s fairly telling. Principally, it says how a lot power I despatched again to the grid throughout peak and non-peak instances and the way a lot I might have paid if I had really used that a lot electrical energy. It got here out to about $1,500 for an additional 5 megawatts of generated electrical energy. So, what did I really get again? About $250 credit score. So, PG&E offered that additional electrical energy to different prospects for $250 as a substitute of the $1,500? Yeah, positive they did.
And that’s beneath NEM 2.0. Proposed NEM 3.0 guidelines will make the economics worse for brand spanking new prospects and doubtless put a nail within the residential photo voltaic market.
Bob Wheeler
Walnut Creek
By mischaracterizing act,
Thiessen steals valor
The irony in Marc A. Thiessen’s allegation-titled article, “Biden’s mortgage forgiveness is an act of stolen valor,” (Web page A7, Sept. 1) is palpable.
Thiessen accuses Biden of abusing the HEROES Act of 2003 by “utilizing a regulation designed for active-duty service women and men as a pretext to supply mortgage forgiveness” for civilians. Thiessen’s article misinforms readers that Biden is extending mortgage forgiveness reserved for active-duty service members to civilians. Nevertheless, the act grants “increased training aid alternatives” to each active-duty service members and people “endure[ing] direct financial hardship as a direct results of a ”]… nationwide emergency” — on this occasion, the COVID-19 pandemic.
By propagating an interpretation of the HEROES Act pervaded with omissions to erroneously decry President Biden’s plan as “an act of stolen valor,” it seems that Thiessen himself is committing an act akin to that of “stolen valor,” as he exploits the provocative phrase to advance his personal political agenda.
Bliss Bergmark
Pleasanton
Column nicely explains
disgust at debt aid
Thanks a lot for persevering with to incorporate Marc A. Thiessen in your “Different Views” part. I simply learn his article, “Biden’s mortgage forgiveness is an act of stolen valor.” (Web page A7, Sept. 1)
I had deliberate to write down a Letter To the Editor as a result of I used to be sickened once I learn what Joe Biden deliberate to do. As a former highschool wrestling coach, I typically suggested my seniors on choices to afford faculty. Whereas taking out a mortgage was an possibility, I typically suggested residing at residence; attending group faculty for just a few years; becoming a member of the navy to obtain increased training advantages; or creating a piece/research program.
Thiessen mentioned it so significantly better than I might, plus he added just a few extra the reason why Biden is disrespecting the sacrifices of a complete section of our nation.
David Smith
San Ramon
Republicans have proven
disdain for Structure
Whereas I agree with Roger Wooden’s stating of Article VI of the Structure (“Founders had been express about faith in U.S.,” Web page A6, Aug. 31), I've to marvel the place he’s been for the previous 12 months.
The Republican Celebration has put in political hitmen which have dominated in opposition to the U.S. Structure a number of instances. They embody loosening gun rights for people when the Structure offers no rights for people to personal weapons, stating there’s no constitutional proper for a lady to regulate her personal physique, and naturally, Kennedy v. Bremerton Faculty district, by which they assured the fitting of college staff to wish on a public college’s subject (a lot for separation of church and state). I’d add this ruling wasn’t made for salat to happen whereas dealing with Mecca.
Republicans and Christian nationalists (an oxymoron) have walked all around the rule of regulation and the Structure. They usually aren’t about to let a 234-year-old piece of paper get of their method.
Don Morgan
Harmony
Politicians ought to come
clear on college closures
Solely big-government liberals (or academics unions) thought it was a good suggestion to close down our colleges in 2020 and 2021, given the just about unanimous understanding that doing so would damage youngsters and poor households, and acquire little in the way in which of COVID management.
Now New York Governor Kathy Hochul admits it, telling a girls’s group in Albany that distant studying through the pandemic was a “mistake” that particularly affected working girls. She is quoted within the New York newspapers: “Wow. Wow, what a mistake that was. What a mistake that was. Ladies couldn’t go to their jobs. They misplaced their jobs.”
Marvel if any California politicians can be courageous sufficient to acknowledge what virtually everybody is aware of — youngsters, particularly these in lower-income households, have actually misplaced a 12 months or two of their lives, and lots of might by no means get better from it.
Mike Heller
Walnut Creek