E-Mail : Daytime Running Lights
Ahead of the curve, or around the bend (“Bright Blight, Big City,” Sept. 26)? Why is it that no one has mentioned the energy required to light all of these headlights? The alternator (or generator) in your car is a load on your engine, requiring more fuel to be burned, which means more pollution.
I thought that the reason for all of these wind-tunnel-driven shapes of cars was supposed to make them use less fuel!
Your comments on the proper use of daytime running lights is right on target, as are your comments about “light pollution” on our crowded freeways.
DON CHAMBERS
Whittier
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