In rebuttal: Sam Saltonstall: No one being forced to buy electric vehicles

SUN JOURNAL • July 9, 2022

In his column about electric vehicles (“It’s not easy being green,” July 6), Cal Thomas claims the Biden administration is trying to “force us” into electric vehicles. If so, why are so many people lining up to buy them, and why are car companies everywhere retooling to build them? The demand is there because people are realizing that efficient electricity sourced from the sun is cheaper than polluting fossil fuels, and that we have to stop burning petroleum and coal as fast as we can if we wish to exist in a livable world. ~ Sam Saltonstall, Brunswick