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I am a concerned California citizen and wanted to let the board
know that adopting these full ZEV amendments is a mistake and would
be overall harmful to the people of California.

I very much believe in the ZEV mandates.  I think when dealing with
new technology and entrenched industry interests, regulations must
be enacted to bring about positive change for our state.  I do
believe that most related transportation and energy companies would
prefer not to change the vehicle technology if it were up to them. 
But we know that big changes must happen in our state and in our
country to improve the efficiency of vehicles and also to reduce
air pollution in our cities.

In regards to these proposed changes.  I really do think we should
stand firm with the initial ZEV regulations, as that is the only
way to move our state forward in terms of a cleaner and more
efficient vehicle fleet.  I also acknowledge that this transition
can not happen overnight and will take a bit of time.  But delaying
the transition will not help anyone in the end.

I would support loosing the regulations for IVM's by allowing them
to produce a mix of ZEV and TZEV vehicles.  I do see TZEV's as
moving us forward towards our goals, although not as much as pure
ZEV's.  I DO NOT believe that the ZEV limit should be reduced to 0.
 There should be at least a small amount of baseline ZEV's
produced, and the remaining can be TZEV if the IVM chooses.

I also feel very strongly that the overall ZEV/TZEV vehicle numbers
should not be reduced from the initial ZEV regulations.  Looking at
Table 3 in the Staff Report, I see the Total Change (ZEV + TZEV)
reduces the number of advanced vehicles substantially.  I strongly
disagree with this direction.  At the minimum, the IVM's should at
least produce the same number of advanced vehicles, even if they
are only TZEV.  Reducing that number, just is going to make it
harder for them and for our state to clean up the air and improve
vehicle efficiency.


So in summary, I would ask the ARB to reject these proposed
Amendments.  While I would support allowing the IVM's to partially
shift their required vehicle numbers from ZEV's to TZEV's, I also
think this is a bad idea and just makes it more difficult in the
future to meet our air pollution goals.  The people of California
should not have to breathe the polluted and unhealthy air that we
do.  It's just wrong and it can be avoided.  The technology already
exists to clean up our air, and to have a cleaner vehicle fleet. 
As we start to shift to that technology it will become cheaper and
it also offers us opportunities to create new jobs to further
develop this new technology.

Please stand strong and do ALL you can to clean up our air and make
California a more healthy place to live.

Thank you,
Peter Berg