Re: “Bill Gates was right: Make climate spending about results” (Nov. 26, Opinion):
The creator will get the purpose 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 fallacious. He and Invoice Gates miss the bottom hanging fruit for lowering our greenhouse fuel emissions. Since our purpose is getting essentially the most discount for the least expense, shouldn’t we be centered on transportation, the most important supply of emissions in Washington state?
We must be getting out of our automobiles and on our ft, bikes and transit. I do know it’s politically unpopular as a result of it’ll undermine the oil, freeway and automotive industries. So as an alternative, we’re misled into subsidizing electrification of transportation, which is costing lots and doing a laughably teeny quantity. Clearly we love our automobiles greater than our kids and grandchildren. In the meantime, emissions proceed rising. Fiddling whereas Rome burns, anybody?
Scott G. Walker, Port Townsend
