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Hello, I am calling to express my objection to the California Air
Resources Board’s proposed Zero Emission Vehicle changes. I
support the Governor’s agenda to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
and the most promising way to reach this goal is to give consumers
the choice to buy Zero-Emission Vehicles, like the Governor’s
electric Tesla Roadster. Unfortunately, at the next California Air
Resources Board meeting, they’re proposing to reduce the number of
Zero-Emission Vehicles required of automakers by 90%, settling for
only 2,500 from 2012-2014. Please have the Governor ask his
appointed CARB chair, Mary Nichols, to (1) re-commit to the full
25,000 ZEVs that automakers had agreed to produce in 2012-2014,
and (2) create a separate requirement for plug-in hybrids that
lets them replace the dirtiest vehicles in CARB’s regulations.
Choice for consumers means cleaner air for everyone. Hello, I'm
calling about the upcoming California Air Resources Board meeting
where they will discuss changes to the Zero Emissions Vehicle
program. I oppose the proposed 90% reduction in the number of
ZEVs. Please tell CARB that the full 25,000 ZEVs should remain a
requirement. Under Governor Davis, the ZEV program was delayed by
more than a decade. Does Governor Schwarzenegger want to be known
as the Governor who delayed ZEVs a second decade? The ZEV goals
were once 2% in 1998, 3% in 2001, and 10% in 2003. Now CARB calls
for a miniscule 0.04% in 2012 to 2014. The old 1998 target is
fifty times what is now being proposed for 14 years later. This is
not a serious attempt to clean our air.