HomeMy WebLinkAbout9/3/2019 Item 18, Ayral
From:Odile Ayral <
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Item 18
Mayor Harmon and Council Members,
I congratulate you for your efforts to curb carbon emissions in SLO, but I can’t help wondering if you are going in the
right direction when you want to make all-electric homes mandatory in new developments. You need to convince
people that all-electric homes are a good idea, not impose your views upon them because if you act like little dictators,
you can be sure it will eventually haunt you.
In my opinion, a better idea would be to encourage the creation of all-electric developments in SLO, with solar panels
and heat pumps, and after people have moved into their homes, to monitor how much it costs the owners or the
renters to run them. If the cost is very low, newspapers will report on it, and the owners of the homes will tell their
friends. Then more and more people will switch to all electric on their own, especially if the city gives them
incentives. It may take longer but it will avoid any backlash.
Furthermore, I don’t think it’s wise to limit us to electricity and totally give up on gas. Research is being done in many
places right now on methane and hydrogen that would lead to carbon free emissions, something I don’t understand but
that sounds well worth following. The more possibilities we have to use renewable energy that does not pollute, the
better for everyone.
Sincerely,
Odile Ayral
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