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Further analysis needed
of the CPUC solar plan
I urge the Bay Area News Group to analyze the CPUC’s fallacious proposal for rooftop solar.
This topic should be addressed by an article examining the 75% reduction in rooftop solar credit for homeowners and the even greater reduction for businesses, schools and churches. And the addition of a $15 per month electrification rate makes it much more difficult to implement rooftop solar.
At a time when we need more renewable energy sources, the CPUC’s proposal goes against the expansion of rooftop solar. While the governor has called for the state to rely more on electric vehicles, why is the CPUC working to undermine rooftop solar adoption? Rooftop solar can help meet Californians’ need to charge their vehicles off the grid.
There should be a thorough analysis of how the extreme CPUC proposal will negatively affect Californians versus how utility companies will benefit from it.
Mike Begs
San Jose
The state has a disproportionate role
in the abortion debate
June 24, 2022 – the date an important constitutional right was overturned.
The annulment of Roe v. Wade allows states to make abortion access illegal. While I believe California is in a stable enough position to retain these rights for its residents, that cannot be said for the rest of the states here in the United States. It is our moral responsibility as a community and as a state to ensure that we can provide resources to people from other states if they choose to come here for an abortion and, in the long run, to influence possibly other states to change their laws and regulations as well.
We need to work with qualified doctors and businesses to provide this service to make it more easily available to all American citizens and to protect the rights of all women.
Tisha Antonio
San Jose
Trump is running badly for
business, democracy
Re. “Trump Declares White House Offer,” Page A1, November 16:
The decision by Rupert Murdoch’s media empire highlights a point that many Republicans have ignored. Donald Trump is no longer a good investment. In the wake of the disappointing midterm election and Trump’s disappointing announcement that he will run for president again, Murdoch has distanced himself from Trump — not driven by ideology, but by what which I feel is a purely business decision.
The question is, how much longer will the American public tolerate the Trump soap opera? The expected new Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, will be hampered by his weak submission to Donald Trump and his political vulnerability to the MAGA firebrands. Many Republicans say it’s time to move on. It seems to me that Murdoch made a business calculation that continuing the Trump saga is not worth it. I hope more of my fellow Republicans get to see it as well.
David Riggs
Aptos
The fight for the climate is
a new Catch-22
The climate issue is starting to look like the new Catch-22.
The major first world polluters should be paying for the problems faced by less wealthy countries, but the reason first world countries have money is because they built economies on the very fossil fuels that caused Pollution.
In order to pay to solve the world’s problems, first world countries, like the United States, will have to continue to inflate their economies, which means more greenhouse gases.
Meade Fischer
Soquel
Centerpiece of the carbon price
of the puzzle of the fight against the climate
Re. “Biden touts climate efforts,” page A1, November 12:
President Biden’s appearance at COP27, although brief, was very significant in that it let the world know that the United States is “back in the game” in terms of taking meaningful action by our nation on the climate.
Speaking at COP27, Biden highlighted one of his major domestic successes, Congress’ massive health care and climate change bill, the Cut Inflation Act, which Biden has enacted in August. The IRA is the largest climate investment in US history – and world history, for that matter. We should all celebrate the importance of this legislation and the likelihood that it will mobilize other nations to take similar climate action.
Biden’s speech also reiterated his goal for the United States to meet its 50% emissions reduction goal by 2030. To help accelerate the United States toward this emissions reduction goal, a economy-wide carbon is essential.
Paula Danz
Los Altos