With all due respect to the engineers helping improve our
environment with cleaner air, this potential mandate is extremely
premature. As a small business owner/operator, we're already
experiencing outrageous expense increases as a result of
transportation costs. We rely heavily on the grid for our
business as we're a small podcast production company and in the
past year we've seen challenges with the ability to get out
electricity to run the studio and A/C. Yet, infrastructure be
damned, we're considering a legal mandate to overwhelm the system
with more electric draw? One only has to use common sense to
see the challenges of putting the cart before the horse. As
demand for electricity increases faster than supply, as it must
under the proposed circumstances, the only result can be higher
cost. Period. And then somebody has to pay for the
infrastructure to support the demand. Again, higher
cost. Who bears the responsibility of all this? Small
business and taxpayers. With less in their pockets to spend,
customers dwindle. As customers dwindle, so do small
businesses. Yes, we have a problem in the state. Many of
them. But why create additional burden when no matter what
happens on the road, is offset with one large fire... for the
year!
Please focus your energies on what's currently realistic.
The majority of CA residents are not in a position to absorb higher
utility bills, they're unable to afford an EV and if the lowest
income communities did get EV's they would have no way to charge
them. Think before acting and do what's best for the
environment by taking one step at a time rather than leaping before
looking. Thank you.
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