The charge neutrality of the composite fermion quasiparticles and quas
iholes at v = 1/2 is suggested by a recent semiclassical description o
f Read. We bring out some nontrivial consequence of this picture such
as a simple explanation for the effective mass divergence as v --> 1/2
and also a BCS type of instability at low temperature leading to a ''
neutral'' superfluid state.