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Letter: Hybrid vehicles are the answer

By Wayne Wright , VANCOUVER
Published: October 12, 2023, 6:00am

As a 76-year-old who has driven gas-powered vehicles my whole life, I am frustrated that our national and state governments think they know the answer to eliminating fossil fuel from vehicular transportation and commercial use. Their answer to this problem is to go all electric.

Nonsense!  We have the answer right under our nose and that is for consumers to drive hybrids. We already have the technology and it works.  The battery problem is solved because we don’t need chargers because they recharge themselves.  The lesser use of fossil fuel to power the vehicles also helps to reduce carbon emissions. We don’t have to destroy our environment because lithium consumption is drastically reduced.

The solution is practical and reasonable but our politicians who have drunk the Kool-Aid can only see dollar signs as they force our nation to convert to EVs and everything else electric. How can we be so stupid to engage in this ridiculousness? Please tell me how this wouldn’t be the answer to solving this issue with a simple solution.

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