Re: “Local weather justice in WA not served by rejecting pure fuel” [Dec. 11, Opinion]:
This Op-Ed feels like an argument I’ve heard for years: that low-income and BIPOC households should select between value and well being. It is a false dichotomy.
Seattle’s pure fuel costs rose 14% this summer time, surpassing the nationwide common, and gas-burning gear places toxins into the air we breathe on daily basis, each inside and out of doors our properties. The higher means ahead is to assist folks create state, federal and native incentives to modify to electrical gear like warmth pumps, that are 3 times extra environment friendly than fuel furnaces and do not hurt our well being.
Local weather and vitality justice is served by utilities and authorities officers who be certain that all Washingtonians can have the prospect to reap the advantages of going electrical.
Patricia Heye, Kingston