To the editor: Solely 65 quick years since its beautiful debut in 1959, who would’ve guessed that the answer to California wildfires is — look ahead to it — the Westinghouse Whole Electrical Residence? (“The Los Angeles fires are not any excuse to decelerate on clear vitality,” column, Jan. 30)
Given the ever-increasing electrical charges in California, there isn’t any state of affairs the place an all-electric house is cheaper than pure gasoline with out heavy “incentivizing” by all layers of presidency.
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is doing the correct factor by reducing purple tape so owners affected by the Palisades fireplace can rebuild extra simply.
Dennis Gimian, Irvine
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To the editor: Backing off from guidelines requiring new properties to be all-electric is a giant step backward.
These fires have been intensified by the unseasonable moist spring progress coupled with the significantly dry summer season brought on by local weather change. If we don’t cease emitting carbon dioxide and different greenhouse gases, that is more likely to proceed taking place.
Burning gasoline must be a factor of the previous, or at the very least we must always attempt to scale back its use. Our kids and grandchildren will marvel what we have been pondering after we recklessly continued burning fossil fuels regardless of realizing the hurt brought on to our well being and that of our planet.
We’re already seeing so many risks brought on by fossil fuels. I will not be right here by the point the planet turns into unlivable, however I’d at the very least prefer to suppose we did what we might.
Let the politicians in any respect ranges — metropolis, county, state and nationwide — know that we have to cease burning.
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed, Los Angeles
