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								April 21, 2009

The Honorable Mary Nichols							
Chair, California Air Resources Board
1001 "I" Street
P.O. Box 2815
Sacramento, CA 95812

Re: Comments on the Low Carbon Fuel Standard relating to
Transportation Electrification 

Dear Chairman Nichols, 
 
We applaud the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for its work
in developing the proposed Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulation that
can spur the creation of a new generation of clean transportation
fuels and is a critical component of the State’s plan for meeting
its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction goals under AB 32.   
 
Plug In America strongly supports ARB’s adoption of the Proposed
Regulations to Implement the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), dated
March 5, 2009. We also recommend that the Board include the
language described by the California Electric Transportation
Coalition as additions to the Board Resolution to adopt the LCFS. 

 
We agree with the broad coalition of groups who believe that
electricity is the ultimate ultra-low carbon fuel.  We also agree
there are complex issues that need to be addressed to secure the
very substantial greenhouse gas reductions from the use of
electricity as a transportation fuel.  As such, we recommend that
CARB adopt the three proposed CALETC Board Resolutions which will
allow for more time to work on these issues with stakeholders,
including the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), and
report back to CARB at its next hearing on the LCFS in December
2009.

Thank you for your work to make California a leader in reducing
greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, and for your
consideration of these comments and recommendations. 

Sincerely,

Jay Friedland
Legislative Director
Plug In America