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Dear CARB Committee Members,

While I appreciate your efforts to make the air cleaner in
California, I believe that targeting sport fishing boats and boats
engaging in whale watching excursions is going to far.

In your literature you talk about taking steps to fight global
warming. It is a well-known fact that the entire United States of
America contributes to only 15% of the emissions that may
contribute to global warming. The real offenders are developing
countries like China and India. You have absolutely no control over
those countries, so why are you punishing us? Any negative effects
sport boats contribute in the overall scheme of global warming is
less than a grain of sand on the seashore. But, the negative effect
your regulations will have on the private owners of these boats
could be economically catastrophic.

Your literature also brings up the health equity issues of
neighborhoods surrounding the harbor areas. Here we have some
agreement - but only with boats that operate mainly in the harbor.
Sport boats and whale watching boats spend the vast majority of
their engine running time offshore, resulting in a minimal effect
on the local neighborhoods. In addition to that, they run their
engines at low to moderate rpm's to conserve fuel. That results in
lower emissions. School bus drivers, not so much.

Your graphs and data are suspect. I have learned through difficult
and financially painful experience to be wary of data provided by
state officials. Remember the Bullet Train? I need to say no more.

In closing, I respectfully request that you remove sport boats and
whale watching boats, for the reasons previously outlined, from the
proposed new emission standards.

Sincerely,
Christopher Olsen