Approach to climate change gets broad support
It was great to read that Tesla’s Model 3 is now rolling off the assembly line, bringing affordable electric vehicles to the public. Reducing the number of cars powered by gasoline will reduce the pollution responsible for health problems that plague so many of our citizens, particularly children.
The transition to electric vehicles will also reduce the risk of climate change by eliminating much of the carbon dioxide emissions that are warming our planet. We can speed that transition by placing a fee on fossil fuels, thereby providing the incentive for consumers to purchase more EVs. If we return the revenue from that fee to households, we can make this transition with no economic fallout.
This revenue-neutral approach to carbon pricing is finding support among conservatives and businesses, including major oil companies like Shell, whose CEO recently said that his next car will be electric. That’s like the CEO of Outback Steakhouse announcing that she’s becoming a vegan.
STEVE VALK, CITIZENS' CLIMATE LOBBY, ATLANTA
Getting a trophy for someone else’s success?
One of your readers has in his letter stated, “Responsible citizens feel a debt of responsibility to the less-fortunate members of society that enabled and contributed to their success,” in “Columnist Parker only half-right,” Readers Write, Aug. 2. Really! So tell me, who were “the less fortunate members of society” that Steve Jobs should have thanked for helping him create the Apple computer company? And who of these less-fortunate people should Bill Gates or Warren Buffett or Paul McCartney have thanked for their success? Your reader apparently thinks that anytime somebody through their vision, hard work and perseverance is successful, everybody should get a trophy. How nice! And so ridiculous.
SEYMOUR RICHARDS, ATLANTA
