This is in response to the letter from L.M. Johnson of Corvallis about electric cars. I recommend she view the DVD "Who Killed the Electric Car" as well as check out the "Plug in America" website. She will find scientific facts already done on the efficiency of electric cars over hybrids and the wasted effort on developing a hydrogen engine.

You find facts from those who developed the electric cars and the new advances in non-lead batteries. Not to mention the solar panel advances that can now be incorporated into home roofs and are as thin and flexible as a doormat. Generating your own electricity and selling the excess to the power companies. Just changing all light bulbs to fluorescents and in the near future to LED's will lower power consumption and thus eliminate new power plants from having to be built.

I for one have now joined as a member of Plug in America and will be writing and calling my Honda dealership telling them my next car will be an electric plug-in or I will shop elsewhere for an electric car.

My next home will have solar panels and be energy-efficient and I will continue to recycle as much as possible.

As for wrecking in an electric car, the EV's of the 1990s were no different than a Honda Civic in size and safety.

Educate yourself, join the movement to keep big business from controlling and suppressing the scientific advances that are being developed. Those advances will enable us to cut the umbilical cord to foreign oil and the pollution it causes.

Sheree Huppunen

Corvallis

Spare us more political mush about warming

I was disappointed that the paper wasted our time with an article like "Easy won't cut it" (Sunday, Nov. 25).

We got the politically incorrect version from Al Gore, and what the political science teacher at podunk college thinks doesn't add much. This is a serious issue, especially since the United Nations wants to be involved; you know, that same group of thugs that ripped billions of dollars from us in the "oil for food" swindle.

We need some credible articles from good climatologists who study this scientifically not a bunch of economists and environmental scientists who study it emotionally.

Maybe you could balance this article with a printing of "Climate of Fear" by Richard Lindzen, who is the Alfred P. Sloan professor of atmospheric science at MIT.

Gary Siewell

Albany