To the editor: The California Legislature ought to replace the oil drilling licensing price construction (“Trump administration orders restart of oil drilling along California coast amid Iran war,” March 13). Anybody extracting oil off our coast ought to pay extra costs to cowl prices associated to:
- Well being protection for our residents who will endure extra medical wants from the drilling;
- Environmental injury suffered on land and within the water;
- Cleanup that will likely be needed as soon as the corporate leaves us holding the bag;
- And financial injury brought on by destructive impact to tourism.
Maybe a modest $10 per barrel in every class could be about proper. With the correct quantity, drilling off our coast would develop into too costly and discourage this type of folly.
David Helkenn, San Diego
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To the editor: This administration begins a battle, creating an increase in oil costs, after which orders resumption of environmentally harmful offshore drilling. It recollects the not-so-funny joke about the one who kills their dad and mom after which claims mercy as a result of they’re an orphan.
Larry Harmell, Los Angeles
