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I have two points to make:
First does CARD really think that the handful of converted Prius
that are providing savings in overall air pollution and reduced
gasoline consumption are having any effect on smog and is thus
truly worthy of this currently proposed regulation (and from what I
have read, the smog issues are based on dubious facts)? I cannot
help but believe, and expect that most will feel the way I do, that
some special interest is involved. 
Second, does CARB need the more publicity like the following:
"Who Killed the Electric Car? pinned some of the blame for the
death of the electric vehicle in the United States on the
California Air Resources Board. In 2003, the board relaxed its
landmark support for so-called zero-emission vehicles after being
sued by the major car companies and the Bush administration.
Automakers and the administration convinced air board members that
hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles were a more viable technology than
battery-operated cars, despite the fact that fuel-cell vehicles
currently cost about $1 million each and are believed to be at
least fifteen to thirty years away from mass production."
This is misguided and given the State's financial issues, harmful
in so many ways.