Letter | High gas prices necessary to reduce consumption

Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | January 5, 2022 | Letters to the Editor

[artichokegrower]

High gas prices necessary to reduce consumption

Lots of folks are complaining about the price of gasoline. Here is my thinking: 1. I love my grandkids. 2. I believe in science. 3. Climatologists tell us that human–created emissions will make our grandkids’ lives uncomfortable, and eventually horrible. 4. Twenty percent of our emissions come from burning gasoline. 5. High gas prices will reduce consumption and therefore reduce emissions. (Unfortunately, low-income people will suffer the most—as usual.) 6. Therefore, I am willing to pay a little more today in the hope that my grandkids will have a better life.

If you cannot accept this logic, buckle up, because $5 gas is the least of our coming problems.

— Don Eggleston, Aptos

[artichokegrower]

Letter to the editor in the local paper here on the central coast of California. This is the thinking of the liberal elite. The hell with the working man. Wonder if this guy thinks about those who commute to work in the stores, restaurants, farms, medical offices and other services he utilizes.

[CatOwner]

And increase the prices of everything shipped and delivered by truck.

[albie]

“Wonder if this guy thinks...”

...NO. HE DOESN’T.

[brownsfan]

This is no surprise. The top politicians barely hide it. The rank and file climate change warriors will gladly tell you they support it.

[albie]

” uncomfortable, and eventually horrible.”

...by the way you dipsh—...try adding “ly”.

[PROCON]

If he has grandchildren then he's old enough to remember all the times these doomsayer 'scientists' predicted all sorts of "man-made" catastrophes from acid rain to the ozone hole to global cooling to climate change; not one of their predictions have ever come to pass in 50 years.

He doesn't believe in science, he's just plain stupid.

[Lurker]

Liberals hate all the people they profess to care about.

All of them.

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[rockinqsranch]

This is the type of letter I’d expect to be published by the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Typical torqued thinking of the occupants of the area.

[ConservativeInPA]

That eff’n moron has no idea how the price of oil and natural gas affects everything. Obviously he is a product of government schools. If you want to improve the quality of lives of your grandchildren, then demand that all teachers with an education degree are fired and replace with someone that can actually think. In the mean time, this asshole should just STFU.

[eyeamok]

If you cannot accept this logic, buckle up

If it was "logic" then maybe you would have a point, but every word you wrote was based on EMOTIONS and NOT Science, data, Facts or Logic. These same people you refer to as "climatologists" are the same people that swore up and down during a massive Propaganda Campaign during the 60's and 70's that our Pollution was hurling us into an Extinction Level ICE AGE. You sir, are just an Old Fool, blinded by Fear and Emotions.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

Wasn’t a former democrat VP candidate named Eggleston?

Didn’t he have to withdraw do to mental problems.

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[TheDon]

This is the thinking of wealthy psychopaths.

[Zathras]

There are few places in CA stranger than Santa Cruz.
One party rule for 50 years at least, rampant drug use.
We tried to setup a chip design center there back in the mid 80’s.
No one ever showed up for work.

[eldoradude]

Thomas Eagleton - McGovern’s first choice for VP.

[marktwain]

He is so horribly wrong about so much.

He has completely been brainwashed.

It is not "climatologists" who support the manmade global warming hoax. It is climate modelers, who are doing it with computer models that do not even agree with each other.

[hanamizu]

Dear Don,

Here’s a video of the guy you likely voted for coming home after flying back to DC from DEL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV0HUNeFTtY

[Campion]

This is the thinking of the liberal elite.

And they are _utterly_ convinced that they are right, and have _zero_ capacity to think critically about _any_ part of their argument.

"Climatologists say" is not science, it's the bandwagon fallacy.

Computer models aren't science either, until they start correctly predicting observations.

I have two degrees in a hard science and one in an applied science. A close relative has a degree in history and one in school administration. Guess which one of us is utterly convinced that "climate change" [sic] is a dire emergency, because "that's what the science says".

[Sacajaweau]

gas or food...gas or food....

[rktman]

Apparently the writer believes in “scientists”. Not necessarily in science which it appear he knows nothing of. He should answer the following and we’ll wait:

1. Define the “correct” temperature range for the planet.

2. Define the “correct” humidity range for the planet.

3. Define the “correct” mean sea level for the planet.

4. Define the “correct” amount of precipitation for the planet.

5. Define the “correct” makeup of the atmosphere.

6. Define the “correct” amount of sea ice at the N/S poles.

7. Define/explain past glaciation and subsequent warming without any input from humans.

[M Kehoe]

Thanks.

I was thinking that it might run in the family.

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