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Dear California Air Resources Board,

Your proposed amendments to California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard
are a climate policy failure that reflects badly on the state's
role as a climate leader. The program subsidizes combustion fuels
with billions of dollars annually. It has no place in our toolkit
of climate policies for the 2020s. Too much is at stake for our
climate to get this critical program so wrong. 

Governor Newsom's budget proposes significant delays and cuts of
hundreds of millions of dollars to vital zero-emission
transportation programs, which makes it all the more urgent to use
the Low Carbon Fuel Standard to more fully support zero-emissions
transportation. Historically, California has devoted 80% of the
LCFS's $3 to 4 billion each year to combustion technology. It would
be counterproductive to allow these funds to continue to languish
on the climate sidelines, rather than anchoring our transition to a
zero-emissions future. 

The world has changed a lot since the implementation of the LCFS in
2009. We have a clear 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, impedes our efforts to fight the climate crisis while
enriching oil companies and industrial agriculture. 

I implore you to 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 large incentives for combustion 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,
Shirlee Jack
934 N 199th St  Shoreline, WA 98133-3511