To the editor: The print-edition picture accompanying George Skelton’s column, “The Newsom administration’s confounding actions on gas prices,” confirmed a Chevron station promoting gasoline for nearly $7.86 per gallon, and it dates it to 2022. To an informal reader, this implies that was a typical value for gasoline two years in the past.
However this station, instantly north of Olvera Road in downtown Los Angeles, is infamous as an outlier with scandalously sky excessive costs on a regular basis. I do know the station properly; it’s typically featured in nationwide TV information tales on excessive gasoline costs.
However this station shouldn’t be taken as typical of something. Cease utilizing it for instance.
Richard Murphy, Whittier
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To the editor: Skelton misses the purpose and neglects to offer essential context when he writes: “So, an unelected bunch of regulators can arbitrarily undertake new guidelines with out weighing the price to customers? Doesn’t appear proper. Appears a bit irresponsible and smug.”
The California Air Assets Board’s carbon emission discount efforts are in reality precisely about prices to customers. The much less we do to scale back, the extra we can pay down the highway to cope with the disruption, destruction and dislocation that Mom Nature will hand us as a consequence of human hubris.
Skelton’s all-too-common dismissive angle concerning the huge prices of local weather change is the kind of conceitedness we must always most be involved about.
Dan Rothman, Fountain Valley