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Dear California Air Resources Board members,

I applaud and support your leadership in setting the next round of
clean car standards that will protect the air we breathe from smog,
dangerous air toxics and carbon pollution. Thanks to your
leadership, in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, the rest of the nation will now also benefit from
California's trailblazing efforts to make gasoline vehicles
cleaner.

The job is not done, however. California still suffers from the
nation's smoggiest air and continued high oil prices. To ensure
every Californian can breathe healthy air in the future and to
protect our economy, we must ultimately eliminate our dependency on
oil.

That's why I urge you to adopt the strongest possible requirement
for the auto industry to produce increasing numbers of advanced
technology, plug-in electric cars. The board should strengthen
staff's proposed requirements so that they result in nearly two
million electric cars in California by 2025. Simultaneously, the
board should reject the loopholes being proposed by some
automakers; one such loophole could undermine requirements by as
much as 40 percent for an automaker.

Instead, let's help ensure that automakers are investing to make
zero-emission technologies as ubiquitous as air bags and catalytic
converters. By adopting strong standards, you will be protecting
public health, expanding vehicle choices and helping create
thousands of new jobs producing zero-emission 


Tessa woodmansee
641 stockton ave 
San Jose, ca 95126