First Name | Jo-Shing |
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Last Name | Yang |
Email Address | jsyang@alum.mit.edu |
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Subject | ZEV2008 --- Electric vehicles as a way for California to reduce global-warming emissions! |
Comment | 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. |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2008-03-25 18:10:33 |
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