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Beacon, N.Y.: When I read Voicer Tom Mielczarek’s recent question, it resonated with me because while it’s true that the U.S. is a major oil producer and exporter, the oil we produce is sweet crude oil. Domestic refineries are designed for heavier crude oil. We export the domestic oil and import the heavy oil, and therein lies the problem.
Many of us are looking at the cost per gallon with increasing horror, worried about how much higher it will go. We feel helpless, even though the solution that ends this is right above us, collected by solar panels.
Transitioning our energy systems to renewables is the most American thing we can do. Oil and gas interests want us to be dependent on volatile international markets as they rake in more than $30 million every hour, which is coming straight from our pockets.
New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act originally demanded 70% renewable electricity by 2030 and 100% zero-emission electricity by 2040. Of course, oil and gas interests hate this because it hurts their bottom line. With Gov. Hochul dismantling the CLCPA, she’s endangering New Yorkers and also making life more expensive for us.
Unlike oil, sunlight is homegrown. Powering our homes with the sunshine overhead sounds like the most pro-American thing I can think of.
Christine Arroyo
Bronx: Some Voicers don’t seem to understand that just because oil comes from under America’s land or coastal waters, the oil does not belong to the U.S.A. Private international companies own it, and they don’t care about our country. Their interest is only in maximizing profit. Some people blamed Joe Biden for high gas prices, although he had nothing to do with it. Today, however, the highest gas prices in our history are a direct result of President Trump’s totally unnecessary war with Iran.
Randall Borra
Valley Stream, L.I.: As Americans are struggling with rising costs, aging infrastructure and underfunded public services, taxpayers should not be asked to finance a lavish ballroom for Trump or any political figure. Public funds are meant to serve the common good — repairing roads, supporting veterans, improving schools, strengthening public safety and protecting programs that millions of working families rely on. A grand ballroom is not a public necessity. It’s a luxury project to satisfy Trump’s enormous ego. Americans should agree on a basic principle: Taxpayers should not subsidize vanity projects for wealthy individuals. If a ballroom is truly important, private donors and personal wealth can fund it without placing the burden on citizens already paying enough in taxes and the high cost of gas. We still don’t know how the war with Iran is going to end. Lastly, did Mexico ever pay for the wall? I didn’t think so.
Vince Sgroi
Scarsdale, N.Y.: We’re paying $4.50 a gallon for gas and Trump is building a $400 million ballroom. He’s making Marie Antoinette look like a socialist.
John Kern
Portsmouth, N.H.: So, if we taxpayers are paying for the ballroom, and the White House belongs to us, does that mean I can have my wedding reception and other functions there — free, of course?
Elizabeth Smith
Plainview, L.I.: Rudy Giuliani may have been a great mayor of New York City for the 112 days beginning on the tragic morning of Sept. 11, 2001, but I will never forgive him for his Jan. 6, 2021 speech to the Capitol rioters-to-be. Shortly before Trump himself stoked the crowd’s anger by telling them, “If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” Giuliani told those MAGA fanatics, “Let’s have trial by combat!”
Richard Siegelman
North Bergen, N.J.: The Supreme Court has vacated the law that prohibited gerrymandering to create racially diverse districts in its Louisiana vs. Callais decision. That being the case, has it occurred to anyone that the gerrymandering, while deemed not in violation of election law, may actually be unconstitutional, as it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution by favoring one of the two major political parties — specifically, the Republican Party? If the Constitution is truly the law of the land, the gerrymandering must stop.
Irving A. Gelb
East Meadow, L.I.: During his confirmation hearing in 2005, Chief Justice John Roberts pledged to act as an umpire, stating that his job was to “call balls and strikes.” Considering the Supreme Court’s horrendous decisions in the Citizens United, Dobbs, Janus and Callais cases, maybe Roberts should be replaced by the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) System.
Richard Skibins
Brooklyn: Voicer Charles Tal claims that I offer “no proof” concerning the IDF’s atrocities, but I have done precisely that in previous letters. Give proof once, why give it again? With regard to proof, letters to the editor are not term papers. This forum doesn’t provide space for a citation and bibliography page with links to videos that prove my point. But Charles, I assure you that proof is there for people to see, provided they want to see. As far as antisemitism is concerned, Zionists constantly blur the line, but I must insist that Judaism is a religion and Zionism is an ideology. It is the old-fashioned, malignant ideology that I, and most of the world these days, find distressful. Distinctions matter, so stay on topic.
Nick Smith
Bronx: To Voicer Charles Tal: There are videos of IDF prison guards raping Palestinians. The Israeli government dropped charges against the rapists. You can shove your opinion.
W. Twirley
Brooklyn: Voicer Chris Lee conjures a hypothetically corrupt fire inspection system to oppose battery storage. I don’t buy it. We live with lithium-ion batteries all around us: in our laptops, cell phones, cars and e-bikes. Some lucky people even have home battery storage to back up their solar panels. Cell phones no longer spontaneously ignite, e-bike regulations are being tightened to address fire safety, and we’ve seen the same progress in large-scale battery storage design and regulation. Engineers and safety experts are solving problems in a new technology that gets us off expensive and polluting fossil fuels. I don’t buy trying to torpedo technologies and regulations that will save our money, health and climate. I also don’t buy how Hochul is currently trying to torpedo our climate law and keep us hooked on fossil fuels. Wind, solar and batteries are cheaper, cleaner and safer.
Ann Schaetzel
Brooklyn: Alternate side of the street parking is a big joke. I observed that Thursday morning when nobody moved their cars. When I asked one of the car owners why he didn’t move his for the street cleaner to do its job, he told me it’s cheaper to get a ticket than to put his car in a garage. The city is spending money for a service that’s not being performed.
Charlie Pisano
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