Have you had enough of John Macdonald?
In his piece, “Have you guys had enough of President Biden yet,” John Macdonald sunk to a new low. Even though he is a regular that doesn’t mean The Sun should publish anything he writes. His claims that rising gasoline and heating oil prices are Biden’s fault and we should wish Biden had never been elected are ridiculous. Macdonald is living in the Stone Age. We didn’t wait for the stones to run out before moving on to something better. The same is true about gasoline and heating oil. We already have much better alternatives: Electric vehicles and heat pumps.
So being forced to get off an old, dirty, expensive oil furnace in 10 years is a problem? What? Most oil furnaces should be near end of life by then anyway. It would be ludicrous to increase natural gas lines to rescue folks from being forced to get off oil, when they can switch to clean heat pumps. I don’t have a clue what he is getting at when he says our elected nitwits have avoided adapting to natural gas lines.
His lament that people in Central Massachusetts would have to burn a table for heat when their oil furnace is taken away is insulting. How absurd that we should reach out to them with natural gas lines, when they have electricity to run efficient heat pumps already. Unlike oil or gas, we can generate some of that fuel (electricity) on our own with solar panels or small scale wind turbines. Why would anyone denigrate progressives for allowing people to get back to self sufficiency in heating their houses? Our forefathers cut down the trees to burn in their fireplaces, now we can generate at least some of the electricity to power our heating systems.
No, I am not worried about the rising gas prices. Gas prices are the lowest they have been in years. Keeping gasoline prices low should not keep us from ever moving off a dirty, unhealthy means of transportation. How selfish can we be? Even the poor folks, that can’t afford any increase in gas prices, here in the richest country in the world, are better off than most people in the rest of the world. How many of these poor folks drive gas guzzlers with more horsepower and less miles-per-gallon than is in any way necessary? I’m sick of people like Macdonald spewing this righteous indignation that Americans should not have to make any changes to reduce their disproportionate carbon emissions. We need to care about more than gas prices.
— Tom Amiro
Chelmsford