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To the Editor: 

While it is very good news that AC Transit is thinking about replacing oil-consuming, polluting, diesel buses with hydrogen-powered ones, AC Transit should not have to demonstrate that “fuel cell buses are more reliable, easier, and cheaper to maintain than” diesel buses in order to change to hydrogen. The fact that hydrogen buses do not consume oil (one of the most environmentally destructive activities an individual can engage in) and do not emit any pollutants should be enough reason to change. Reliability and other factors are minor details compared to the environmental destruction that will be eliminated by ending the use of diesel. 

Jeff Hoffman 

San Francisco