To the editor: Regarding its article (“Newsom's impulse to reduce fossil fuels is to face the thirst for gasoline in California”, on August 11), why are Governor Gavin Newsom and the Democratic members of the state legislature surprise?
The legislature approves bills that mainly intend to obtain points and make more to harass oil companies than to reduce air pollution. Newsom applauds these political bills and urges them to approve more.
Many years ago, the Democrats in the Legislature pretended to be oil engineers and designed a type of funky political gasoline that the other 49 states do not use. This political gasoline is the only type that is allowed to sell in California. It is more expensive to do and can only be performed by modified oil refineries at high cost.
When oil companies charge more for this extra cost gasoline, Newsom accuses them of price filling. If California cannot find oil refiners outside the United States that are willing to modify their refineries to make gasoline “only from California”, and that are willing to support false acquisitions and harassment of the state government, some car owners with gasoline will have to learn their children's abilities to mount bicycles.
Gordon Binder, Pasadena
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To the editor: All this Sturm und Drang on the closure of two refineries in California is out of place. Any serious study of market trends would conclude that the end of internal combustion will be as soon as 2035, in a mere decade from now on. Instead of telling readers that a reduction in oil refining will cause price increases due to gasoline scarcity, point them in the direction of leaving the gas completely changing to an electric vehicle.
Americans buy more than 40,000 new cars, around 3,300 of them are electric vehicles, every day on average. The cheapest gas car is a basic Nissan Econobox for approximately $ 17,000. That money will buy an excellent EV that will serve you better without contaminating the air or supporting oil companies. And since it is not buying gas, demand decreases, reducing the need to increase prices.
I would like to see California use the talents of our film industry to produce commercials that deter people from buying new gas cars. Reduce the demand for gas cars and we will reach the end of internal combustion sooner rather than later.
Paul Scott, Santa Monica
