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According to AB 32 and the Executive Order S-3-05, the goal is to
lower GHG emissions to 80% below the 1990 level by 2050.  At what
point will ARB begin to focus on CCS as a carbon mitigation tool
as it was not addressed in their "Climate Change Draft Scoping
Plan", June 2008 Discussion Draft?  Obviously, at some point, CCS
for the new and more importantly, existing electric generation
will have to become one of the climate mitigation tools necessary
to achieve these ambitious goals.
 Projections indicate that natural gas supplies to California from
the southwest and from Canada are forecasted to decline in the
future;  whereas, incremental electric power demand is forecasted
to continue to increase.  As demand continues to exceed supplies
for world oil supplies, natural gas supplies will become more
valuable as a feedstock for the petrochemical industry.  Given the
forecast for declining supplies of natural gas imported into
California, has ARB contacted the National Energy Technology
Laboratory about what can be done by the ARB to assist NETL with
the acceleration of CCS technologies that will be available to
California utilities?  
California produces a large volume of gasoline; therefore, what is
the substantial potential for burning petroleum coke produced in CA
refineries for electricity generation for CCS projects in
California.  Currently, California is exporting this fuel to China
and India where it is utilized and the emission footprint can be
detected in CA, WA, OR, and the western Arctic a few weeks later. 
Given the difficulties in citing a new electric generation
facility, has ARB collaborated with CEC on assisting CA utilities
to formulate and develop a strategy for generation that utilized
California produced petroleum coke?