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Tonikian, Victoria
From:CityClerk
Sent:Monday, August 26, 2019 5:43 PM
To:David Scarry
Cc:Betz, Ryan; Read, Chris
Subject:RE: Natural Gas Ordinance
Dear Mr. Scarry,
Thank you for taking the time to contact the City Council on this topic. This is a policy related issue for the City Council’s
consideration that is scheduled to be heard at the regularly scheduled City Council meeting on September 3rd. Your
message has been provided directly to them.
If you have any questions, please contact the Administration Department at (805) 781-7589.
Sincerely,
Victoria Tonikian
Administrative Assistant II
City Administration
City Clerk's Office
990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3249 E vtonikia@slocity.org T 805.781.7105 slocity.org
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From: David Scarry <
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 7:42 AM
To: E-mail Council Website <emailcouncil@slocity.org>
Subject: Natural Gas Ordinance
I think there are more effective ways to help the environment.
California’s energy production is not at a point where it produces clean energy. The energy consumed will be from
natural gas plants for a long time to come.
Even if SLO only buys clean energy we are not changing the net environmental impact of carbon source energy. We are
just shifting the source of energy. There is a limited supply of clean energy. Other cities will be using a higher
percentage of carbon produced energy.
It’s similar to a person claiming that they have no household waste by emptying there cardboard and plastic bulk
containers purchased into reusable plastic containers at the store and putting the waste in the stores recycle. True they
may have little or no waste at their house but they have done nothing to solve the problem. They have just diverted it.
There may be a time in the future when the majority of the energy used in CA is clean energy until then we are only
diverting the usage. Our equivalent energy usage of electric powered appliances will still be essentially powered by gas
fired power plants . It’s just power being directed to another city because our city bought up the clean energy.
People enjoy gas BBQ’s gas fireplaces and some prefer gas ranges where they can use cast iron cookware.
Before imposing lifestyle restrictions on everyone else please clean up the cities carbon footprint.
I realize for the moment this is directed at new construction.
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