Camping ban article was below average
Regarding the camping ban article (Tribune, March 14), just a few comments:
Why did you use average price of Greeley homes ($414,000) and then compare with median income ($80,200). You should only compare median vs. median, or average vs. average. If you don’t know the difference, please look it up.
You indicated 85% of Greeley residents cannot afford a home. I think you meant to say that they could not afford an average cost home. Certainly more Greeley residents could afford homes less than the average price. It would be informative if you indicated what price is affordable under current guidelines.
I think you should print a clarification.
Richard M. Borys, Greeley
Gabe Evans puts polluters over families, undermining methane waste reductions
Across CD 8, Latino families live near oil and gas extraction sites, exposing them to methane pollution which can trigger asthma, respiratory illnesses, and even cancer.
The methane pollution fee is designed to reduce methane waste, with the potential to cut 960,000 metric tons of methane between 2024 and 2035, along with thousands of tons of other hazardous air pollutants.
Congress’s Congressional Review Act resolution, sponsored by Rep. Gabe Evans, threatens to eliminate these protections — putting Latino families, workers, and our entire district at greater risk.
More than seven in 10 Americans support a fee on oil and gas conglomerates for methane pollution. Leading companies have already pledged to limit emissions below pollution thresholds. Colorado has worked hard to address these concerns, bringing together state leaders, industry, and environmental groups to cut methane waste.
Thanks to readily available and cost-effective technologies, the International Energy Agency estimates that 50% of oil and gas methane emissions can be avoided at no net cost. This would make reductions feasible, practical, and in addition create jobs in the methane mitigation sector. Rep. Evans’ actions directly undermine that progress, prioritizing polluters over his constituents.
Patricia Garcia-Nelson, Greeley
Gabe Evans needs to learn the needs of CD8
Rep. Gabe Evans is working on the wrong priorities. He thinks oil and gas, wind and solar need more incentives. All these entities were doing just fine without your help. Currently the United States is the No. 1 producer of oil and gas. When Obama was president we were exporting more oil and gas than importing. Chevron is the largest producer in Colorado. Take a look at their profits and tell me they need help.
If you really want to do some good, Rep. Gabe Evans, try having a town hall meeting with your constituents and find out what the real need is in your District 8. President Trump and Co-President Musk are tearing apart the most basic needs of our most vulnerable, and you’re worried about oil and gas, wind and solar. There is a large part of your constituents that are going to be suffering horribly because of what is going on in D.C. This is a national tragedy and we don’t hear anything about this from you. You seem to be 100% behind Trump and Musk, at least we don’t hear anything from you about trying to stop what they are doing, so we have to assume you’re with them instead of the people you are supposed to represent.
Quit hiding! If you’re afraid you will catch an earful at a town hall, then just maybe you’re not working on the things that benefit most of your constituents.
Tim Wojahn, Lasalle
Cascadia won’t bring good jobs in long run
Greeley’s citizens deserve good jobs, which means a job that would enable the worker to rent or buy a place to live but still have enough money for health care, food, a car and maybe entertainment. That’s why I wonder about the “benefit” Greeley’s citizens would get after paying with our tax dollars the $1.1 billion cost of the Cascadia project in the form of permanent and construction jobs. The permanent jobs would be overwhelmingly service jobs like cleaning hotel rooms, serving in restaurants, or in the arena, catching people at the bottom of the slides in the water park, etc. These are not the kind of jobs that would allow a person to rent or buy a place to live here in Greeley. We can do better than this.
Mary Monahan, Greeley
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