Electrical payments
Bjorn Lomborg blames clear vitality insurance policies for Britain’s sky-high electrical payments (“Lomborg: Growing vitality prices isn’t the reply,” Feb 5). Nonsense. Britain’s costs spiked as a result of it’s hooked on fuel, and when Russia invaded Ukraine, fuel costs exploded. Fuel dependence, not wind generators, is the perpetrator.
Lomborg skips the truth that photo voltaic and wind are actually the most affordable sources of latest electrical energy in a lot of the world, cheaper than coal or fuel, even with out subsidies. The reply to excessive payments isn’t doubling down on the gas that prompted the disaster. And his name for extra “innovation” earlier than we act is a strategy to sound cheap whereas retaining us chained to fossil fuels that jack up our payments each time there’s a conflict or a pipeline squeeze.
Right here in Massachusetts, Winery Wind was on monitor to energy 400,000 houses with cheaper, homegrown electrical energy and good union jobs when the Trump administration tried to kill it, citing bogus “nationwide safety” grounds that 4 federal judges have rejected. Lomborg says he desires inexpensive vitality. So do working households. Meaning extra clear energy, not much less, and a authorities that stops blocking it.
Frederick Hewett
Cambridge
SAVE Act
It’s time for Congress to cross the SAVE Act. Displaying an image ID as a way to vote is widespread sense. A majority of Individuals, over 83%, need voter ID in accordance with the most recent Gallup ballot. If that many Individuals need it, why does Chuck Schumer maintain saying it’s an abomination and Jim Crow on steroids? That may be a drained lie that Democrat elites maintain repeating.
What’s disheartening to me is that Senate Majority chief John Thune has been holding up a vote on the SAVE Act for over 300 days. Why the maintain up? Safe elections will at the least cease the vitriol between voters about stolen elections. And, then, politicians can get all the way down to the enterprise of truly governing.
Donald Houghton
Quincy
Epstein information
Jeffrey Epstein was an execrable man, a very despicable character. However he additionally mastered expertise that many morally superior people would dearly like to marshal. He had, as an illustration, a variety of pals throughout the worlds of finance, academia, politics and philanthropy that few different rolodexes may muster, and when he referred to as, they answered.
I don’t suppose for one second that each one of his contacts knew of his depredations on the time, and but many good folks are actually sullied, the stink ineradicable. The pursuit of the Epstein information has been pushed in a style unbecoming a severe investigation and seems like a helter-skelter rush to the underside, no matter the associated fee to innocents caught in political crosshairs.
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati, Ohio
