To the editor: Studying this text could lead on one to consider that banning gasoline home equipment, similar to water heaters and house heaters, and changing them with electrical home equipment would eradicate 100% of NOx emissions from gasoline home equipment (“Regulators seek to phase out gas-powered appliances in Southern California,” June 4). This isn’t true, as a result of pure gasoline is used to generate electrical energy in California — in 2023, it made up 43.68% of our producing vitality, based on the California Energy Commission.
I feel this Air High quality Administration District initiative to part out gasoline home equipment ought to be postponed till such time as 0% of California’s vitality is generated with fossil fuels. And for the reason that price to transform from gasoline to electrical is substantial contemplating the prices of recent home equipment, installations and upgrades of family electrical panels, the state and AQMD ought to rebate all of those conversion prices to households. If this AQMD initiative is deemed by the state to be essential, then it ought to pay for its implementation.
Greg Zebrowski, Manhattan Seaside
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To the editor: There are two issues with adopting electrical water heaters. One is retrofitting the provision, in all probability not a difficulty with new building however a critical consideration when substituting gasoline for electrical energy. The opposite is paying for that electrical energy. Our utilities have made electrical energy so costly that, even with photo voltaic panels mitigating a number of the price, home equipment that use vital energy are a luxurious for use solely the place mandatory. The AQMD must concentrate on these sensible issues as an alternative of the chimera of targets. Any idiot can mandate a share determine and so look like doing one thing, nevertheless it takes finesse to search out sensible options that don’t themselves create new issues.
Martin Usher, Thousand Oaks
