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I am writing you concerning the proposed changes to the
Zero-Emission Vehicles mandate.  I cannot understand why you would
postpone the urgently needed move toward ZEVs in California.  It is
obvious that these cars are needed to reduce the vast amount of
pollution that we are creating with combustion automobiles.  There
is an obvious market for these vehicles - if even 2% of Prius
owners could choose to buy an Electric powered car, there would
already be over 20,000 on the road today.  Once upon a time
California was both the country and world leader in working to
prevent pollution and global warming with it's ZEV mandate of the
1990's.  At this point, haven't we seen that it was a mistake to
abandon the ZEV mandate. There is a market for these cars - the
Toyota RAV4 Electric Car which was made based on california's ZEV
mandate is now selling USED for $65,000!!  That is over $20,000
more than it originally sold for. 

Please, please do the right thing for California's environment and
let us regain our position as the leader in ecologically friendly
policy.   I ask you to (1) re-commit to the full 25,000 ZEVs the
automakers promised, (2) create a separate requirement for plug-in
hybrids that lets them replace dirtier vehicles, and (3) provide
incentives for plug-in hybrids that have the most on-board
electricity storage.