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Dear California Air Resources Board, please support the California
Plug In Hybrid conversion industry by raising the Tier 1 ceiling to
100 vehicles up from the currently proposed 10.

Please read my previously published letter to the editor on this
subject:

To the Editor,

The California Air Resources Board dashed the first true progress
that was made on electric cars in this country, as chronicled in
the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car. They are poised to do
it again, this time to the plug in hybrid vehicle.
They are poised to make a ruling that will cripple the nascent
plug in hybrid conversion industry by imposing onerous testing and
warranty standards that capital poor entrepreneurs cannot provide.
In the process they will violate their own mandate to reduce global
warming pollution. They are validly concerned about air pollution
that can increase when a hybrid's gas engine is started less
frequently. However, conversion companies have since found that
simply having their software turn on the gas engine for a period
whenever the car starts renders these air quality issues nill.
Given that the air quality issues are now gone, and with CARB's
mandate to reduce global warming pollution, CARB has no rational
choice but to work these conversion companies to find an equitable
solution to keep plug in hybrids on the road. I'd rather not have
to watch another documentary in five years about how CARB could
have done the right thing but didn't.

Sincerly,
Daniel Bell