To the editor: As soon as once more, Californians are paying the value for counting on unstable fossil fuels (“California gas is pricey already. The Iran war could cost you even more, March 2”).
President Trump’s warfare of alternative in Iran reveals that fossil fuels are the other of power safety. They drive battle, pollute our air and expose us to cost spikes.
As a substitute of extra drilling to prop up this lethal, polluting trade, we have to rapidly and neatly transition away from oil and fuel.
Now we have the expertise. Different nations are leapfrogging fossil fuels to reasonably priced clear power safety. Clear transportation presents advantages fossil fuels can’t. Electrical faculty buses save California $155 million per year. Electrical automobiles scale back utility prices for everyone, whether or not you personal one or not.
The one option to get off the fuel worth curler coaster is to hurry the simply transition to a more healthy, extra reasonably priced clear power economic system.
Christina Scaringe, Sacramento
This author is the California local weather coverage director on the Middle for Organic Variety.
