Transportation is the biggest source of destructive emissions in
California. A different infrastructure that includes good
jobs closer to worker's homes and vastly improved public
transportation would address this but that isn't where we are now.
California is still a car culture. We need massive
production of affordablle EVs, and we need the public to embrace
them.
Therefore I believe the state of California must put it's
climate budget into public outreach. Excellent EVs have been
available for over a decade, yet they are still only a fraction of
the vehicles on our roads and freeways. When the public
demands them, industry will build them. Please mount a
massive pubic awareness program with regular TV and radio spots on
the most popular stations, freeway billboards, magazines and
newspapers. The future looks grim because we refuse to stop
causing the climate disaster. Accurately educate the causes
of the crisis to the public, they deserve to know. Only then
will behaviors change.
Thomas Yeates
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