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Socal Edison short on power for IE warehouses

On the front page of your April 16 edition, you had the headline, “Supervisor warns new warehouses may be without power.” Funny, he provides this warning while our governor says California will only sell electric vehicles by 2035, and has declared we will build over 1 million more homes in the state in a matter of years. Now, when we don’t have the electrical capacity for just a few warehouses, what does that mean for the entire state? We have shut down a nuclear power plant, haven’t built a major electrical power plant in decades, and our local windpower grid isn’t working most of the time. In the meantime, Edison requests new rates every time I open my monthly bill. I’m just thankful I have solar, but it’s a shame that not all people can afford to go that route. Let’s add to the equation electrical usage if everyone has an electric car. I hope people plan on purchasing a gas generator so they can charge their cars to make it to work and school each day. Is California prepared for a sustainable electric future? If not, doesn’t it make sense to have a plan in place before mandating what people have to drive? — Valerie Liese,

Cherry Valley

Vaccine mandates and the evolving science

Re “Evolving science has made vaccine mandates obsolete” (April 15):

Surprising column from a retired medical doctor pointing to the fact that the COVID-19

vaccines only “provide some protection against serious and life threatening infections, they do not block transmission.” ICUS throughout the country were filled with patients who refused to get vaccinated. Those vaccinated who did get COVID-19 were able to stay home and not clog ICUS for patients who had other life-threatening ailments. I understand that the time has probably passed for the Legislature to enact stronger mandated controls to prevent virus transmission. The writing is bordering on irresponsible as it suggests to the unvaccinated that they really don’t need to get vaccinated. Funny that in such a developed nation that the U.S. has such a low vaccination rate as compared to other developed nations. It’s pieces like this that feed the politicking of the vaccines and the virus itself. When COVID-19 details are in the paper, just look at the states with the highest cases and deaths by percentage; the top ones are red states. Writing like this along with news shows like Fox (socalled news) and One America have been feeding their viewers misinformation and ignoring the science since vaccines were available.

— Christopher Otto,

Riverside

Don't resist arrest but instead comply with requests of authority

Re “Resisting arrest often is deadly for Black people” (April 17):

I read the article about the use of deadly force when contacting the police. It is a terrible

Tax cuts are a fresh idea for California

Re “GOP needs fresh ideas to halt irrelevance in California” (April 22):

Tom Elias writes that Republicans can no longer win in California because they have no fresh, new ideas. He claims their most tired idea is the cutting of taxes. But cutting taxes is a very fresh idea.

I cannot recall taxes ever being cut. For the last 40 years taxes have steadily been increased and levied. Oddly, California voters keep voting for these increases.

Example: Prop. 6 in 2017 would have lowered gasoline taxes. Voters voted “no.”

Perhaps the GOP’S trouble isn’t “old ideas.”

— Mike Allred, Norco