Texas needs energy-generation upgrades for all-electric cars

EV future wants extra planning

Plans abound to provide electrical automobiles and vehicles. I favor the transition however doubt the state’s present capability of electrical energy era can provide all of the charging stations that shall be wanted. Tesla CEO Elon Musk says we might want to double the capability of energy era nationally. In Texas, has anybody finished the mathematics?

Certain, electrical automobiles will scale back the quantity of gasoline and diesel gas wanted. However the charging stations must be equipped by electrical energy that’s principally generated by hydrocarbons right now. And a large-scale improve in electrical energy era will take years to put in. The place are the plans to fulfill the long run want?

– Joel Raymond, Arlington

GCISD residents, listen

These of you within the Grapevine-Colleyville Impartial Faculty District want to look at the Sept. 26 board assembly on-line. (Sept. 28, 1A, “Grapevine-Colleyville college trustees spar on ethics considerations”) It provides you with an concept of what’s going on within the district. The assembly additionally featured a sharp exchange between the board president and a trustee who’s within the minority of the polarized board.

Superintendent Robin Ryan introduced his retirement not too long ago. What a loss to our once-proud instructional program. So long as we permit Patriot Cellular zealots to decide on our metropolis and faculty officers, we will count on extra of the identical.

Ask your self in case you suppose GCISD is best off right now than two years in the past.

– Tommy Taylor, Colleyville

Don’t delay this important demise information

Texas’ Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Overview Committee is required to report findings earlier than every legislative session. However state officers are withholding the 2022 report, blaming procedural points. (Sept. 19, 1A, “Advocates decry delay of Texas maternal mortality report”)

Suspending launch of present info and specializing in procedures and strategies of counting deaths slightly than on stopping them delays life-saving modifications in maternal well being care.

To this point, Texas has did not fund the committee’s key suggestions for stopping maternal mortality, particularly yearlong postpartum look after Medicaid moms.

The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention estimates 80% of maternal mortality is preventable. Each delay means extra pointless deaths.

– Patti Anne Hamilton, Forestburg

So many deaths, it’s like conflict

If a headline studying “5 infantry divisions lifeless” have been to seem, it will shock our nation. But that’s nearly precisely the toll taken by drug overdoses in 2021: 107,622 lifeless. (Sept. 24, 6A, “What’s at fault for decrease life expectancy in US”) That’s greater than twice the variety of Individuals killed in fight throughout the Vietnam Warfare.

Many of the deaths, 71,238, have been from fentanyl, however meth, cocaine and pharmaceuticals kill, too.

These folks die in ones and twos, principally with out headlines or TV protection. Ought to these deaths not be our first concern? Border safety is the primary factor we should work on initially.

– Griffin T. Murphey, Fort Value

However what in regards to the weapons?

To listen to Republicans wail in regards to the risks of fentanyl whereas they battle to protect fentanyl customers’ entry to military-grade firearms could be cute have been it not so lethal.

By no means take them critically about public security.

– Chris Bellomy, Fort Value

Tragic however preventable?

The death of Joe Woodfin (Sept. 27, 1A, “Fort Value dad dies after COVID sickness as pandemic continues”) was tragic, a loss his household won’t ever utterly get better from. However the article didn’t tackle some important points. Did members of the family have vaccinations and booster pictures in opposition to the virus? Did they put on masks in public? The only precautions could make the distinction.

– Margaret Pennington, Benbrook

Don’t ban books, ban the bans

In response to Elizabeth Campbell’s piece on e book banning (Sept. 19, 1A, “Texas tops checklist as e book bans rise sharply”), I suggest a ban on e book banning.

Politics apart, e book banning is disrespectful to educators. Librarian positions require grasp’s levels that put together educators to find out what’s acceptable to hold for all demographics. Librarians are consultants and should be handled as such.

Sen. Ted Cruz not too long ago (and baselessly) accused “left-wing educators” of placing “express pornography in entrance of children.” This rhetoric is very disrespectful to schooling professionals and supposed to impress excessive reactions.

– Meredith Reilly, Fort Value