To the editor: The print-edition picture accompanying George Skelton’s column, “The Newsom administration’s confounding actions on gasoline costs,” confirmed a Chevron station promoting gasoline for nearly $7.86 per gallon, and it dates it to 2022. To an off-the-cuff reader, this implies that was a typical worth for gasoline two years in the past.
However this station, instantly north of Olvera Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, is infamous as an outlier with scandalously sky excessive costs on a regular basis. I do know the station nicely; it’s usually featured in nationwide TV information tales on excessive gasoline costs.
However this station shouldn’t be taken as typical of something. Cease utilizing it for example.
Richard Murphy, Whittier
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To the editor: Skelton misses the purpose and neglects to offer essential context when he writes: “So, an unelected bunch of regulators can arbitrarily undertake new guidelines with out weighing the price to customers? Doesn’t appear proper. Appears a bit irresponsible and conceited.”
The California Air Sources Board’s carbon emission discount efforts are in reality precisely about prices to customers. The much less we do to cut back, the extra we can pay down the highway to cope with the disruption, destruction and dislocation that Mom Nature will hand us attributable to human hubris.
Skelton’s all-too-common dismissive angle concerning the monumental prices of local weather change is the kind of conceitedness we should always most be involved about.
Dan Rothman, Fountain Valley
