To the editor: Sammy Roth’s column about Boichik Bagels’ efforts to spike Berkeley’s eco-friendly tax measure felt significantly demoralizing.
This beloved bread maker revealed that a lot of the corporate’s fuel consumption may’ve been simply lowered by switching to electrical kettles and water heaters with out affecting high quality. It was simply the ovens that posed the issue.
If we assume the ovens use as a lot as half her whole fuel every month, and he or she experiences promoting 14,000 bagels per day, and accounting for vacation retailer closures, the ensuing tax on their $3 bagel from this measure would’ve come out to a half-cent every.
The price of these two new kettles would’ve been lower than one cent per bagel. However that was an excessive amount of to assist safeguard the planet, I assume.
Paul Kradin, Santa Ynez, Calif.
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To the editor: Two associated tales spotlight the necessity for creativeness if people are to reply successfully to the local weather emergency.
The article on the solar energy glut driving up utility payments in California whereas benefiting residents in different states affords a detrimental tackle the photo voltaic increase in California. Behind this debacle are elaborate and self-defeating economics.
Nevertheless, the true story is the untapped battery storage market that’s wanted for California to realistically wean itself off fossil fuels.
In Roth’s column on the Berkeley bagel enterprise that helped kill a pure fuel poll measure, we study that our creature comforts, supplied by way of fossil fuels, are extra invaluable to us than the planet we’ll be leaving future generations.
With out creativeness, it’s a exhausting activity to shift perceptions. We will construct sufficient storage programs for extra photo voltaic; we will transfer away from methane (“pure fuel”) as a gas supply.
To take action, we’d like correct info, much less spin from utility corporations and to get rid of the brokers who decide power prices.
Meredith Rose, Pasadena
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To the editor: The Boichik Bagels founders are poster youngsters for the basic definition of a liberal — somebody whose private pursuits are usually not at the moment at stake.
No marvel Donald Trump gained.
Bob Cowan, Los Angeles
