To the editor: Michael Mische guest collaborator (“We still trust gasoline. Why is California increasing cost and pollution?” On July 6) he says that “California's energy transition is inevitable”, but wants to delay the transition so that oil companies do not punish us with higher gas prices.
But Mische ignores the costs of damage induced by climate change (catastrophic fires, floods, increased sea level, droughts and extreme heat) for which taxpayers are currently leaving the invoice. It is estimated that the fires of the angels of this year cost more than $ 250 billion, and the Californians pay for climatic damage through higher energy invoices, insurance premiums, medical care and reconstruction costs.
Meanwhile, the large multinational fossil fuel corporations and California refineries enjoy record profits and will receive even more tax incentives and incentives under the budget law backwards from President Trump.
Instead of asking fossil fuel companies to face the climatic pump, therefore, the climatic bomb that is the schist of Monterey, what if we demand a clear answer about why we pay the mysterious surcharge of gasoline?
The oil and gas industry has delayed Californians for too long. The only way to escape is to invest in the transition to renewable energy, and quickly. There is an invoice for that. Contaminating paid the superfund climate law would require that the world's largest fossil fuel pollutants pay a small portion of their mass gains to contribute to the transition and clean the disaster they created.
We are in a climate crisis because fossil fuel companies illuminated us for decades to enrich themselves. Mische suggests that they should bury us even more deeply.
Cooper Kass, Los Angeles
The author is a lawyer for the staff of the Climate Law Institute of the Center for Biological Diversity.
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To the editor: A difficult aspect to deal with climate crisis is our deficiency as humans to project in the long term. Without lack of respect for Mische's experience, one wonders if he is considering the tragic long -term economic consequences and human suffering associated with the continuous combustion of fossil fuels. Undoubtedly, we must consider the impacts on those less capable of paying the highest fuel prices and providing relief accordingly as we make the transition, but those are the same people as the most affecting climate crisis will affect. We have just lost more than 90 people in Texas due to flooding related to that same crisis.
Mische is worried about a possible price increase this summer. We should worry about the climatic catastrophe of each summer and the suffering that our grandchildren and their children will face if we do not act in the short term to control carbon pollution.
Michael Selna, Huntington Beach
