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To The Board:

Forcing the nascent PHEV industry to submit to increased
regulation and punitive bureaucratic procedures that have little,
if any, proven benefit seems to be antithetical to the grander
cause of lower greenhouse emissions and improving California's air
quality.

Imagine if a state board had force Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak,
the founders of Apple, Inc., to submit to such regulations!  Would
you be proud to be a member of the board that forced Fairchild
Semiconductor (the company that spawned Intel and the semiconductor
industry as we know it today) to onerous regulatory actions -- at a
time when the semiconductor industry was in its (global) infancy in
California?  

The state is at a critical junction  - our economy is in shambles,
our environment is in need of repair, and the citizens of the state
are eager for freedom to innovate in a clean way.  State Boards
should tread lightly at a time when citizens are actively
questioning the value received from Sacramento. The state needs
more innovation, less regulation, more jobs, and a cleaner
environment.  

Please consider the time and place of your decisions - and their
long-term implications.  For CARB to intervene in such matters, it
should be mindful of the small, entreprenurial companies it could
harm -- these same companies are the Apples and Intels of
tomorrow.

Sincerely yours,
Andrew Dailey
Mill Valley, CA
415 381 1042