Put these resources toward electric buses
I believe the Port Authority is making a significant contribution to improving our region’s air quality, as outlined in “Port Authority Moving Toward Natural Gas, Electric Buses” (Nov. 13). Having lived along a busy city bus corridor for many years, I experienced the constant dust, noise and black smoke emitted by diesel buses. Electric buses are not only cleaner running but also quieter and more energy efficient than their diesel counterparts.
The only question I have is why the Port Authority would spend anywhere from $120 million to $140 million to build the expensive infrastructure needed to service natural-gasfueled buses. Energy, like money, is fungible. Our local grid currently runs on about one-third natural gas, one-third coal and one-third nuclear power. Electric buses, when charging, will be using all three of these locally produced fuels.
The $120 million to $140 million cited in the article might be better spent buying more electric or electric hybrid buses since natural gas already contributes such a large and growing percentage of our power generation needs. ROBERT PODURGIEL
Carnegie torture; of a national security adviser condemnatory of Islam and of a billionaire secretary of commerce whose policies will likely favor Wall Street over the well-being of workers, the poor and our environment.
My father, too, was a soldier in World War II. The ideology that he and the Greatest Generation fought to keep outside our country bears a resemblance to Trumpism. They would not rest easy with the thought that what they struggled to keep away could reappear, this time from the inside. FRED EVANS Point Breeze
In response to Joanne Kosar’s Nov. 30 letter (“Disgraceful Behavior”): Please spare me your self-righteous indignation. I am also a proud American, which is why I passionately supported Hillary Clinton. I am also appalled by the “terrible words” I have heard — words emanating from Donald Trump and his supporters during this bloody campaign. They called her “crooked Hillary” and much worse. They chanted “Lock her up!” and shouted all manner of racist and misogynistic obscenities. They carried signs that said “Make America White Again.” They stood shoulder to shoulder with members of the KKK and neoNazis.
I remember a time when presidential elections were contentious but civil. My father, also a World War II veteran (may God rest his precious soul), and my mother were Democrats who voted twice for Adlai Stevenson
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but were perfectly happy with, and respectful of, President Dwight D. Eisenhower. We’ve come a long way from those more idealistic times; this election was a national disgrace and Third World ugly.
Mr. Trump is a desecration of the American political process. He’s a con artist of the highest magnitude and has duped all of those mostly white voters who, for reasons that still escape me, are so bitterly dissatisfied with their middle-class lives, which are, in fact, the envy of much of the rest of the world. Mr. Trump will not help them. He has no business living in the White House; he doesn’t even want to live there.
Yes, I am extremely angry about the unexpected Trump Electoral College victory, but I have a strong sense that millions of Trump supporters would have felt the same of a presidentelect Hillary Clinton. MATTHEW GALBRAITH
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