| First Name | peter |
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| Last Name | schilhavy |
| Email Address | peter-and-priscilla1@hotmail.com |
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| Subject | Ineffectiveness and punitive nature of proposed CARB regulations |
| Comment | Dear CARB, Quote: The State's plan is to mandate engines that are too big and too heavy to fit in existing engine rooms. This is a BIG PROBLEM. But, rather than retreating from this plan, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) insists that boat owners can simply buy new ones that would range in cost from $4.6 million to $5.7 million. CARB insists that you can pay for these expensive new boats through increased passenger ticket prices. To buy new boats, one-day fishing and or whale watching trips would have to Triple in Price. There is no way our customers can afford to take themselves or their families out on the ocean at those prices and this will mark the beginning of the end for our businesses, our livelihoods - and your access to the sea. Given this situation your legislature will bankrupt all the sport fishing and whale watching boats. There is no way the sport fishing boats will be able to afford or fund this. I personally know one captain and boat owner and he lives paycheck to paycheck. He works construction on the side just to get by. I have a good job but when an overnight trip goes from $120 to $360 I will not be able to afford saltwater fishing and I will quit. There are 174 sporting and whale watching boats. Any emissions from these boats are released over the ocean as opposed to the enclosed valleys of CA so they are quickly diluted by the hundreds of miles of free ocean surrounding them. There are 14 million + cars in CA. The amount of pollution of these boats is miniscule compared to cars. This does not include industry. 14,894,912 U.S. automobile registrations in 2019, by state Characteristic Number of registered automobiles California 14,894,912 Feel free to bankrupt and put out of business 174 boat owners and their crews for a stupid mandate that will have no measurable effect on reducing pollution. I am a well-respected Principal mechanical engineer who has been working for 33 + years in the aerospace industry designing space engines and missile defense products. So from a technical perspective it is obvious your proposed legislation is foolish, harmful and ineffective. |
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| Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2021-11-13 19:24:17 |
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