To the editor: I used to be heartened to learn California has a number of avenues to proceed combating local weather change, resembling taxing polluting automobiles like Norway does, compelling trucking firms on the ports to make use of electrical vans and particularly Senate Invoice 684, the invoice making polluters pay. All of those collectively give us clout (“With its local weather progress beneath assault, California takes up a multipronged protection,” Could 18).
However there may be one other tactic we have now that, if deployed, could be extraordinarily efficient. It’s additionally straightforward sufficient that almost all can do it. Cease shopping for fuel automobiles. Nobody can drive you to purchase a polluting automotive. Electrical automobiles are price efficient for anybody buying a automotive from $10,000 and up, which is most everybody. The common new automotive value is $48,000, however you will get new EVs with 300 miles in vary for beneath $35,000.
So by no means purchase a fuel automotive once more. President Trump could also be making an attempt to dam California’s skill to ban the sale of gas-powered automobiles by 2035, however California automotive consumers have their very own energy: the facility to decide on the higher car that doesn’t pollute.
Paul Scott, Santa Monica
