To the editor: As soon as once more, Californians are paying the worth for counting on unstable fossil fuels (“California fuel is expensive already. The Iran struggle might value you much more, March 2”).
President Trump’s struggle of alternative in Iran reveals that fossil fuels are the alternative of vitality safety. They drive battle, pollute our air and expose us to cost spikes.
As a substitute of extra drilling to prop up this lethal, polluting business, we have to rapidly and neatly transition away from oil and fuel.
We’ve the know-how. Different nations are leapfrogging fossil fuels to reasonably priced clear vitality safety. Clear transportation provides advantages fossil fuels can’t. Electrical college buses save California $155 million per 12 months. Electrical autos scale back utility prices for everybody, whether or not you personal one or not.
The one method to get off the fuel value curler coaster is to hurry the simply transition to a more healthy, extra reasonably priced clear vitality economic system.
Christina Scaringe, Sacramento
This author is the California local weather coverage director on the Heart for Organic Variety.
