To the editor: California set the usual for effectivity when electrical automobiles have been of their infancy and all of us benefited. Now, it’s China that dominates the market, a lot in order that Volkswagen shall be manufacturing 30 EV fashions in China at about half the price of manufacturing in Germany. That, mixed with China’s large investments in renewable energy-powered manufacturing, means the U.S. gained’t be aggressive in a world market.
So, I get why the president desires to pressure People into inside combustion engine automobiles: to prop up an trade that has let its competitors get forward (“Trump plans to weaken automobile mileage guidelines that restrict air air pollution,” Dec. 3). However on this sport of musical chairs, is it actually successful when the music stops on a fossil fuel-reliant infrastructure? Renewable power isn’t going anyplace, and the remainder of the world shall be utilizing it to energy their automobiles at pennies on the greenback.
Pam Brennan, Newport Seaside
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To the editor: That is one more step in President Trump’s dismantling of local weather change initiatives. He has already ignorantly ranted that local weather change is a “con job.”
The indifference proven to the extreme penalties for our youngsters and grandchildren from local weather change, predicted by overwhelming scientific proof, is appalling.
Local weather change is not a high-priority voter subject. Even nonetheless, the perfect factor we will do is to vote out Trump’s sycophantic congressional Republicans within the upcoming midterms, primarily to offer pushback to Trump’s different egregious actions. However it might additionally cut back his congressional help for the dismantling of local weather change initiatives.
The U.S. clearly can’t remedy the local weather change downside by itself, however we’re a needed a part of the trouble.
Jack Holtzman, San Diego
