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Conversion to EVs
already underway
Re. “State’s ban on gas-powered automobiles received’t be simple process,” Web page A7, Aug. 30:
Please inform Dan Walters that the transition to electrical automobiles (EVs) has already begun. The California Inexperienced Constructing Code requires new initiatives to offer for EV charging stations.
Many present companies, together with buying facilities and auto dealerships, are already voluntarily offering EV charging stations, together with ADA-accessible stations, and have been doing so for not less than the final 5 years.
Mr. Walters may additionally need to learn as we speak’s Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson which signifies that automakers together with Ford and GM are constructing battery vegetation in america in states like Kentucky that can make use of 8,000 employees.
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 a number of the challenges Mr. Walters refers to might be solved by a future James Watt.
Gerald Veiluva
Oakland
As an alternative of charging
batteries, change them
If we're going to have a future the place most individuals drive electrical vehicles, we must always assume when it comes to altering the battery in our automobile relatively than ready round for our battery to be charged.
In a super world, all vehicles would run on possibly two or three commonplace batteries. The automobile could be designed in order that the battery may very well be faraway from beneath the automobile by an automatic machine which then plugs in a completely charged alternative. Out and in in minutes. Stations with a row of those machines would substitute gasoline stations on interstates or different routes the place vehicles have to journey lengthy distances.
Such a facility would require a considerable provide of energy so it might preserve the wanted stock of absolutely charged batteries. At the least the supply of that energy, comparable to a big photo voltaic array, may very well 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 automobiles received’t be simple process,” Web page A7, Aug. 30:
In his considerations about banning gross sales of recent EVs, Dan Walters asks, “Let’s say somebody residing in San Francisco wished to drive to Lake Tahoe for snowboarding?”
Sadly, he fully misses the irony in his query; there received’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've arrived on the boiling level of petty crime and it continues to escalate on account of no management or repercussions due to Proposition 47.
Catalytic converters, vehicles and vehicles stolen at a really excessive stage, vandalism to automobiles, tires stolen, and buying carts and baggage loaded with items stroll out the door of any enterprise. It's a rampage for ever and ever. I've been advised by many retailers there's nothing we will do.
How lengthy will this sort of theft proceed? Who's going to finally take an curiosity in stopping this conduct? At occasions individuals have the catalytic converter changed solely to have it stolen once more. So far as the companies are involved, the buyer pays the loss.
Ann Fagliano
Castro Valley
Deaths underneath Trump
far exceed Bush’s
Mr. Nicholas Goldberg in his piece “Bear 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 real criterion.
In actuality, the general impact of Trump’s insurance policies resulted in additional deaths, by orders of magnitude, than Bush was ever answerable for.
Final yr, 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 precipitated 22,000 deaths. Moreover, 40% of deaths from COVID-19 might have been prevented if america had the identical COVID loss of life charges as different G7 nations.
About 7,000 People died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump seemingly contributed to over 700,000 American deaths.
Bruce Mendenhall
Newark
Get up for restored
nationwide monuments
Final yr, 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 individuals. Their artifacts are each cliff dwellings and petroglyphs.
Nevertheless, state leaders in Utah are suing President Biden over his determination. 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