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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 backslides on the state's role as
a climate leader. 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. This is
disgusting!

The oligarchy's sycophant, 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
thrown good money after bad, and devoted 80% of the LCFS's $3 to 4
billion each and every year to combustion technology. It would be
wild to allow these funds to continue to languish on the climate
sidelines, instead of anchoring our transition to a zero-emissions
future. 

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. 

I urge 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 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.
Clean out of patience with this dinosaur! The govt presents us with
an existential threat.  What shall we do about that? 

Sincerely,
Karen Froiland
Rohnert Park, CA 94928