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My life has been devoted to the care of children. I was a stay at
home parent and then a special education instructor. Climate Change
has taken a wrecking ball to their mental health. It's causing
great emotional distress for all of us, but especially for young
people who have inherited our failure to stop it.
Electric Vehicles are critical to slow climate change so I
volunteered to become the lead tester for the Cool The Earth/ UC
Berkeley study of DC fast chargers. During my electric vehicle
advocacy work I knew many EV drivers were frustrated by fast
chargers, but during my testing I was shocked by the magnitude of
the problem. I was surprised by the huge number of dismayed and
regretful EV drivers I encountered. 
I am angry that the work done by many of us, including this board,
has been hindered by the inadequate effort by Electrify America.
They consistently rank last in consumer satisfaction. They have
repeatedly made promises to improve but follow up testing has shown
it has not happened.
It is not driver education that is the problem. Last month I too
stopped at Kettleman city on my way to LA. and four out of the six
chargers were down. At the next EA charging station in one hundred
degree weather people were on the phone with EA because all three
chargers were down. They will not improve without strict oversight.
If you give them another $200 million without specific metrics and
enforcement we're going to see more people choose gas cars. 
That would be a tragedy because every time a person drives that gas
car and releases carbon into the atmosphere it stays there for
hundreds of years. Hundreds of years. Shame on us.
What you are deciding today is will effect whether the next driver
can choose to go electric. And if they don't, then we are simply
condemning our young people to a nightmarish future. Please do your
part and do not enable this company to continue to derail EV
adoption.