Re: “Bill Gates was right: Make climate spending about results” (Nov. 26, Opinion):
The writer will get the aim precisely proper, as Gov. Jay Inslee proposed in 2013, “that local weather expenditures ‘be prioritized to make sure the best quantity of environmental profit for every greenback spent … ’ ”
However he will get the technique that’s wanted unsuitable. He and Invoice Gates miss the bottom hanging fruit for lowering our greenhouse fuel emissions. Since our aim is getting probably the most discount for the least expense, shouldn’t we be centered on transportation, the most important supply of emissions in Washington state?
We should be getting out of our vehicles and on our toes, bikes and transit. I do know it’s politically unpopular as a result of it’ll undermine the oil, freeway and automobile industries. So as a substitute, we’re misled into subsidizing electrification of transportation, which is costing quite a bit and doing a laughably teeny quantity. Clearly we love our vehicles greater than our kids and grandchildren. In the meantime, emissions proceed growing. Fiddling whereas Rome burns, anybody?
Scott G. Walker, Port Townsend
