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Dear Sirs and Ladies:                                    03/10/08

I wish to encourage you to vote for the adoption of Amendments to
the 2008 Amendments to the California Zero Emission Vehicle
Regulation.
I am a conservative republican in South Carolina. My wife and I
make a combined modest living. As fuel prices have risen to more
than double of what we paid just a few years ago, we have been
forced to make lifestyle and family budget changes. We have always
had two cars; now we have one. We used to make unscheduled trips to
the supermarket or other stores when we needed one or several
items. Now all our shopping is carefully planned for the same
trip, mindful to plot out the most cost/fuel efficient route. The
use of our automobile has been curtailed by roughly 75%. The
"Sunday drive" is a thing of the past. Fortunately living close to
our jobs, we now walk or bicycle to work most of the time. Long
trips to see old friends or relatives have ground to a virtual
halt.
Our family is not the exceptional case, but rather, more and more,
the usual or common case. We are just one of many in the United
States: every state.
Please do the citizens of California the justice of (1) being free
of the strangle-hold of OPEC and the like. We should be ashamed to
have ever put-up with it. Let's face it. Oil stinks:literally.
Drive behind a city bus for a few miles if you doubt it. 
(2)Give the folks in your state a chance to breathe some fresh air
in their own towns.
(3) Review the previous decision your board made on this proposal;
which seems to have put the nails into the coffin of GM's EV1
(ExxonMobil built the coffin - GM owned the cemetery.) By now I
could be driving an electric, non gas and oil car in South
Carolina.
Your decision adversely affected everyone, coast-to-coast. 

Personally, I will be voting with the only thing this country
seems to understand: my wallet. And will I buy a Plug-in Hybrid if
they ever make it out of the factory? I'll certainly go out of my
way to get one if I can afford it (or anything)in the future. If I
have to wait to buy a "pre-owned" Plug-in after they have been out
a few years, that is what I will do. Remember: oil
stinks-literally. Electricity is what you smell in the air after a
thunderstorm. Big difference.

I am not a person involved in politics; I work too many hours. But
I can put my money where my mouth is. 
Thank-you for your time. I appreciate your willingness to allow me
to express my viewpoint.

Yours Truly:
DjPalmer                  Jn. 3:16