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Please slow down regulation of this new industry. I know a number
of people who want to convert their hybrid vehicles to get even
better gas mileage.

The proposed regulations threaten nascent industries performing
that service. Almost all of them are probably too small to survive
the CARB proposed regulations. Some provision should be included
that will exclude industry members below a certain threshhold. That
way they can continue to pursue innovative technologies that may be
throttled by onerous regulations that larger industry members can
easily meet.

Too often governments lose sight of the effects of proposed
actions on the smaller members of an industry, those whose impacts
on the deleterious emissions would be small when considering the
overall picture. Please modify the proposed regulations to allow
continued operation of the most innovative and creative sector of
our auto conversion industry, those who can show the way to larger,
less nimble industry members.