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Phasing out fuel
autos a giant step

Re. “State phasing out fuel autos in local weather struggle,” Web page A4, Aug. 26 :

Whereas there are inquiries to be requested on the feasibility of a zero-emission future, I imagine that this momentous determination by the California Air Sources Board is a giant step ahead towards limiting greenhouse fuel emissions.

Whereas paper straws, meatless Mondays and carbon footprints would all assist with the local weather change state of affairs, this sweeping regulation will prepared the ground in considerably chopping the carbon emissions. I’m optimistic.

Wayne Zong
San Jose

Paperless billing much less
productive, environment friendly

Re. “420,000 PG&E clients revolt towards paperless-billing change,” Web page A12, Aug. 21:

As a bookkeeper, I’d like to elucidate the revolt towards PG&E’s paperless billing.

Paper billing and customary workplace invoice cost and submitting procedures have change into standardized over a whole bunch of years. With paperless billing even for a small enterprise, you must juggle a whole bunch of digital credentials and accounts all of which aren’t standardized and are topic to account lockout, vendor lock and hacking. Paper billing, even with digital funds, is much extra environment friendly for correct recordkeeping and submitting. For nonprofits, paper payments with supervisor approval signatures create a cleaner audit path than a tangled net of digital permissions.

A paperless workplace is a much less productive and fewer environment friendly workplace.

Thomas Busse
San Francisco

Housing difficulty: you possibly can’t
make the finite infinite

How does our homeless state of affairs resemble the Colorado River? It appears like they don’t have anything in widespread; but it surely’s about ignoring a reality, too many individuals utilizing a finite useful resource. With the river, the issue is clear; 40 million persons are utilizing it with extra being added on daily basis. Relatively than acknowledge this reality, we preserve looking for a method to make a finite useful resource infinite, which isn’t going to work long run.

With the homeless, the issue is a little more delicate. Low cost land to construct on is virtually nonexistent, so the strain is exerted by rising housing costs, costs that the homeless can’t afford. No developer will maintain the losses vital to construct extra housing that rents for what the homeless can afford, and authorities companies would wish to take a position vastly to make a dent in the issue, which solely will get always worse because the homeless inhabitants grows.

Meade Fischer
Soquel

Cheney stood floor
towards Trump’s lies

Re. “Trump foe Liz Cheney loses election,” Web page A4, Aug. 17:

Ernie Konnyu wonders why Rep. Liz Cheney “self-immolated”? (“Cheney’s concentrating on Trump killed congressional hopes,” Web page A6, Aug. 23)

Maybe ideas like “honor, integrity,” and “doing the fitting factor” have change into a distant thought to Konnyu. Whereas I disagree with Cheney on her political affiliation, I like her for her standing as much as the alleged “king,” as Konnyu acknowledged. Doing the fitting factor and standing up for one’s beliefs implies private integrity and a way of ethical steering, even within the face of adversity.

Liz Cheney did the fitting factor, whatever the price and stood her floor, even within the face of loss.

Steve Sulgit
Cupertino

Article leaves many
questions unanswered

Re. “‘Magic mushroom’ psychedelic might assist heavy drinkers stop,” Web page A8, Aug. 25:

Apart from having a deceptive headline, the article was infuriatingly facile and could lead on individuals right into a harmful self-experiment. As licensed marriage and household therapists, we’ll touch upon essentially the most egregious components of this reporting.

The pattern measurement is so small as to be scientifically invalid. There are a lot of totally different modalities of “discuss remedy.” Did all of the members obtain the identical kind with the identical therapists? What does “heavy consuming” imply versus being an alcoholic? Those that are consuming alcoholically should not affected by a “dangerous behavior” however from the illness of habit. The top of the article talked about a girl who drank “5 or 6 drinks each night.” How is she doing now? We don’t know as a result of the article doesn’t say.

Though the Related Press is the supply of the article, we anticipate The Mercury Information to be extra accountable in selecting and/or modifying its content material.

Mark Zalona
and Heather Turey
Santa Cruz