Why don’t bicyclists pay for roadwork?

Your Thursday editorial (“A gas, gas, gas”) on higher taxes at the pump to fund local road improvements was excellent. And yes, how about the folks who don’t use normal fuel?

And how do bicyclists contribute to these road costs? There has been a tremendous cost expended in repaving along Horizon Ridge and Gibson in Henderson for bicycle lanes. In some areas those lanes are so wide that the paving would be better utilized for vehicular traffic.

Esmael Candelria

Henderson

Offer choices

In Thursday’s Review-Journal we learned that the Nevada Public Utilities Commission has allowed MGM Resorts and Wynn Resorts to leave as retail customers of NV Energy and obtain their electricity on the wholesale market.

Now we citizens are required to buy our electricity from NV Energy, a quasi-private company, which last year was bought out by the greatest investor in my lifetime, Warren Buffet. He knows that NV Energy has a built-in yearly profit because it is controlled and regulated by a team of government bureaucrats.

We, on the other hand, each year see our electric bills rise because there is no competition.

It is time that we citizens are also allowed to choose our electricity from other companies that could compete with NV Energy. As a stockholder of Berkshire Hathaway, I know Mr. Buffet through his management team would vehemently object to this, as it would cut into this cash cow of his. But so what? Let the capitalistic system that Mr. Buffet always touts as the best in the world work on a true supply-and-demand basis.

Michael O. Kreps

Las Vegas

Temper tantrums

So the little school-children of Congress (read: Democrats) threw temper-tantrums because they felt no one was listening to them. Talk about brain-dead politicians.

Even Nevada Rep. Dina Titus debased herself by sitting on the floor for the lengthy sit-in.

How about this: In November let’s give Rep. Titus the opportunity to sit at home and perhaps she’ll learn what behaving like an adult means.

George Pucine

Las Vegas

Cultivated ignorance

I would like to thank the Review-Journal for publishing Nicholas Gartner’s June 18 letter, “It’s time for us to get serious and fight against terrorists.” Mr. Gartner suggests military and special weapons training for everyone, access to high-powered, high-capacity firearms, and claims armed citizens should be stationed everywhere.

This is very important. People need to know that this element exists in our society — an element fundamentally incapable of conceiving rational solutions to solve our societal woes. This thought process is ultimately the product of right-wing media that has cultivated ignorance and harnessed the resulting anger for their own special interests and political purposes.

It’s sad to see this attempt to transition this country into the land of the ignorant and home of the concealed-carry pants wetters, afraid of everyone and everything around them.

Rick Reynolds

Las Vegas