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Dear Chairman Nichols, and the board of CARB.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has a long history of
leading the world in establishing high standards that have made
the air cleaner for everyone.  Among its many accomplishments,
nearly 12 years ago, CARB had the courage to create the Memorandum
of Agreement (MOA) in which the big seven automotive manufacturers
committed to manufacture and sell Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs). 
Our family has been one of the fortunate few to actually obtain
full function Battery Electric Vehicles that were created under
the MOA, and over the past 9+ years have driven nearly 100,000
miles in them and continue to do so today.

In the years since the MOA was created, technology has advanced
and now both pure Battery ZEVs and Plug-In Hybrids offer the best
chance to reduce greenhouse gas, our reliance on foreign oil and
improve our air quality in California, and around the country.  

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 purchase Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) and
Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles (PHEV’s).

Unfortunately, CARB may reduce the number of ZEVs required of
automakers by 90%, settling for only 2,500 from 2012-2014.

Please reconsider the current planned CARB recommendations and:
1. Require the full 25,000 Type II ZEVs that automakers had
committed to for 2012-2014-and make them available for purchase
and/or lease with option to purchase.
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.

Please ask the entire California Air Resources board to show the
same bold leadership by promoting choice for consumers by
maintaining the full ZEV requirement in what was planned for the
2012-2014 time period.

Choice for consumers means cleaner air for everyone.

Thank you.

Julie Paul