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California is not a transit-friendly state. California is a state
where people without vehicles do not get to go to places easily
(unlike other states in the East Coast and unlike most European
and Japanese cities).  As a result of poor
transportation-infrastructure planning from past decades,
California is now a major emitter of greenhouse gases from
vehicles. So I see EVs as a practical solution for us as a state
to reduce global-warming emissions. 

We can plug EVs into wind-powered or solar-powered sources, so EVs
don't necessarily have to draw electricity from the coal-powered
grid. As a state, we must move forward to tackle the difficult and
challenging issue of global warming immediately!  Otherwise, it
will be too late for us to take action if we wait any longer.

I support the governor's agenda to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
25% by 2020. The most promising way to reach this goal is to give
consumers the choice to buy Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEVs), like
your electric Tesla Roadster. Unfortunately, the California Air
Resources Board (CARB) may reduce the number of ZEVs required of
automakers by 90%, settling for only 2,500 from 2012-2014.  I ask
the CARB chair, Ms. Nichols, to do the following:

1. Require the full 25,000 ZEVs that automakers had promised for
2012-2014.
2. Create a separate requirement for plug-in hybrids that lets
them replace the dirtiest vehicles in CARB's regulations, rather
than the cleanest ZEVs.