The Squeeze on the Middle Class
I wish to commend The Times for its editorial. This was an important and insightful commentary on what I believe to be the most significant issue facing California today--economic growth and prosperity.
While your editorial properly addressed such things as housing, personal income, employment, transportation and education, it did not mention the role of energy.
As a spokesman for the petroleum industry, I am not reticent to tell you that I believe we are the backbone of California’s economy. Our 80,000 employees fuel the cars, trucks, buses and planes which move this state--its goods, services and people. Unfortunately, we have also fallen on some bad times and that cannot help but impact the middle class you so eloquently wrote about.
STAN DEVEREUX, Manager, External Affairs, Western States Petroleum Assn., Glendale
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