Opinion: Oil companies stoke class warfare to stop climate-change legislation
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To the editor: The oil industry excels at pitting poor people’s concerns against needed climate legislation. (“A big question complicating the climate debate: Are current policies only benefiting the rich?” Aug. 22)
Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez (D-Echo Park) is the latest to carry water for the oil lobby. He trots out the meme of expensive Teslas while ignoring the numerous low-cost electric vehicles that have sold in the hundreds of thousands.
Worst of all, legislators like Gomez, Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De Leon (D-Los Angeles) and even Gov. Jerry Brown all use gas-burning cars instead of vehicles powered by clean, renewable electricity. They not only pollute the air they purportedly wish to keep clean, but the gas they buy funds the industry they claim to be fighting.
Environmental leaders don’t pollute their constituents’ air. These people are clearly not environmentalists.
Paul Scott, Santa Monica
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