Dec. 5, 2025 6 AM PT
To the editor: California set the usual for effectivity when electrical autos had been of their infancy and all of us benefited. Now, it’s China that dominates the market, a lot in order that Volkswagen will likely be manufacturing 30 EV models in China at about half the price of manufacturing in Germany. That, mixed with China’s large investments in renewable energy-powered manufacturing, means the U.S. gained’t be aggressive in a world market.
So, I get why the president needs to pressure People into inner combustion engine automobiles: to prop up an business that has let its competitors get forward (“Trump plans to weaken vehicle mileage rules that limit air pollution,” Dec. 3). However on this sport of musical chairs, is it actually profitable when the music stops on a fossil fuel-reliant infrastructure? Renewable vitality isn’t going wherever, and the remainder of the world will likely be utilizing it to energy their automobiles at pennies on the greenback.
Pam Brennan, Newport Seaside
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To the editor: That is one more step in President Trump’s dismantling of local weather change initiatives. He has already ignorantly ranted that local weather change is a “con job.”
The indifference proven to the extreme penalties for our kids and grandchildren from local weather change, predicted by overwhelming scientific proof, is appalling.
Local weather change is not a high-priority voter issue. Even nonetheless, the perfect factor we are able to do is to vote out Trump’s sycophantic congressional Republicans within the upcoming midterms, primarily to offer pushback to Trump’s different egregious actions. However it will additionally cut back his congressional assist for the dismantling of local weather change initiatives.
The U.S. clearly can’t remedy the local weather change drawback by itself, however we’re a mandatory a part of the trouble.
Jack Holtzman, San Diego
