It's too easy to brush aside the letter from the Vail writer condemning the Democrats for pushing the EV agenda as another partisan attack without merit. If the wind is blowing and the government pushes funding for wind powered electricity generation is that a Democrat thing? There will be no stopping (only slowing by moneyed interests) all out electrification. Renewable electric energy is already cheaper to transmit and cheaper to produce altogether.
But what about her husband's repair shop in Vail? Is it just survival of the fittest? Or does society have an obligation to help people without the resources to re-train or re-imagine a way of making a living---as their way of making a living will be EV stampeded into oblivion? Sure it's a ways off yet but that's no comfort to the Vail writer or her husband's repair shop.
I offer no answers here but I ask this question because it's the only way forward to a fair and just transition away from fossil fuels.
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Rick Rappaport
Oro Valley
Disclaimer: As submitted to the Arizona Daily Star.
