First Name | Joe |
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Last Name | Galliani |
Email Address | mrjoe@mrjoe.com |
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Subject | Electric Cars for California - NOW |
Comment | I understand that the CARB is considering reducing the number of zero emission vehicles that car makers will be required to produce in your latest regulations. I want to register my strongest protest at any reduction. Instead of reducing the number of zero emission vehicles you require the manufactures to produce, my family wants and needs you to greatly increase that number. Unless you provide the necessary regulation requiring the automakers to give us the electric cars so many of us want they will not do so. They will continue to produce the cars that are contributing to global warming and harming my health and the health of my family and friends. They will not respond to the needs and desires of the market - they will just keep force feeding us the gasoline powered, greenhouse gas producing cars we are sick and tired of. If the CARB reduces the number of ZEV cars required then CARB will be equally responsible - as far as I am concerned - as the auto makers are in doing exactly the wrong thing at this critical time for the future of our climate. It is clear automakers will not act responsibly on this issue unless you force them to. Please do not give them permission - through your reduction - to continue to deny us the latest renewable energy technology we want and need. One sure way we can help reach our state's and nation's ambitious greenhouse gas reduction goals is to give us the viable purchase option of electric cars. When electric cars are recharged from solar panels, like my friends Dency Nelson and Paul Scott both do here in Southern California, that's the cleanest most renewable transportation possible. These two friends drive their electric cars every day. I want the same option. You have the power to give me that option or to crush that possibility. So please require - at minimum - the total of 25,000 ZEVs that automakers had promised for 2012-2014 - then see if you can get them to triple that number. And while you're doing the right thing on that subject, please also do the right thing for plug-in hybrids by making a separate requirement that lets plug-ins replace the dirtiest vehicles in your regulations, instead of the cleanest ZEVs - which makes no sense to anyone. That would make a lot more sense for the environment and do more good than harm. My family and I do not feel like we are fairly represented by the actions Mary Nichols has taken thus far and we're very disappointed in her lack of leadership and the vision overall exhibited by the CARB - right when we need you to represent us most. Please do everything in your power to give us the electric cars we want and need right away. Please put the interest and health of Californians ahead of the profits of automobile manufacturers. Thanks for your time and consideration. |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2008-03-18 16:30:22 |
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