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Dear California Air Resources Board,

The program subsidizes combustion fuels to the tune of billions of
dollars per year and has no place in our toolkit of climate
policies for the 2020s. There is too much on the line for our
climate to get this critical program so wrong. 

The world has changed a lot since the implementation of the LCFS in
2009. Unlike the 2000s, we have a north star goal for our climate
and the air we breathe: zero emissions transportation.  Continuing
to invest the billions in revenue from the LCFS into harmful and
polluting biofuels that end up combusted, instead of electric
vehicles powered by clean energy, hampers our efforts to fight the
climate crisis while enriching oil companies and industrial
agriculture. 

Please correct your course and modernize the program by reflecting
your consensus that the only way to meet air quality standards is
through eliminating combustion altogether, not piling on billions
of dollars in lavish incentives for combustion each and every year.
By focusing on real air pollution solutions, you could add a clean
air multiplier to the credits system, especially for public fleets
that transport many people at once, would deliver major benefits
for California's air quality and throw a lifeline to cash-strapped
transit agencies that low-income Californians depend on for
mobility. 

California cannot meet our clean air and climate goals without
harnessing the power of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard and
overhauling this multibillion-dollar program for our zero emissions
future. Please act expeditiously to reform the program to achieve
our state's ambitious goals.

Sincerely,
Lawrence Carbary
80 Ora Way  San Francisco, CA 94131-2562