Electric Car
In yet another misguided use of funds, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has gone out and gotten in the car business by investing $7 million in the development of an electric car (Nov. 8).
While the DWP increases rates, DWP’s well-pampered officials are hoping to compete with GM, Ford, BMW, Acura, et al., with a $25,000 electric car--and one that can’t make a round trip from Malibu to Pasadena without resorting to auxiliary gasoline power. Can you imagine this thing struggling up the Grapevine at night with lights ablaze?
Councilman Marvin Braude, DWP Board Commissioner Mike Gage and the rest of these silly fools should spend their time trying to get rid of all those air-fouling clunkers on the freeways by eliminating loopholes in the emissions law, instead of bathing in the glow of their own egos.
I have a great name for the car: Edison (son of Edsel).
TOM CARTWRIGHT
Altadena
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