To the editor: This text states, “From April by June, Chevron, the largest refiner and second-biggest oil producer in California, made $12.1 billion in revenue, practically 5 instances the identical quarter final 12 months, and its highest earnings in no less than six years” (“Energy company profits are soaring with the Iran war. Here’s what California officials want to do,” Aug. 5). It additionally notes, “Chevron mentioned its efficiency mirrored international operations, not state or regional outcomes, and was pushed by previous investments.”
Does Chevron and the opposite refiners reaping “obscene income,” as state Sen. Josh Becker (D-Menlo Park) put it, take into account political contributions and paid lobbying efforts totaling tens of millions of dollars to President Trump and his GOP lackeys as investments? How about their contributions to numerous unaccountable slush funds like Freedom 250?
If that’s the case, these “investments” — anybody else would precisely name them bribes — definitely paid off handsomely. And so they revenue a little bit extra with each inexperienced vitality challenge they’ve efficiently paid to kill.
Wally Ross, Pasco, Wash.
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To the editor: Whereas I assist lawmakers’ efforts to tamp down the beautiful income accruing to the likes of Chevron and Exxon because the onset of the Iranian struggle, I don’t consider outrage over that enrichment is the answer.
Fairly, the actual and lasting resolution is plugging into the longer term with electrical automobiles and leaving America’s oil-drenched previous prior to now the place it belongs.
Linda Nicholes, Huntington Seashore
