My name is
Christopher Moore. I am a manager at a high end custom car shop
that has been using chrome plating
for 20 years. We build very high-end automobiles for clients all
over the United States. The hexavalent chrome work that
Sherm's Custom Chrome Plating does is some of the best in the
country. They are our “go to” source for quality chrome
work.
In our opinion
there are 2 other Chrome shops in the country that put out the
quality these guys put out. One is in Ohio and another in
Tennessee. If you make it illegal to use hexavalent chrome in CA we
will be forced to send our work to another state.
If all of
California’s chrome plating is going to be shipped across the
country what is the real gain in your proposed legislation? If this
legislation is passed you are now causing more pollution. You are
doing this because the chrome plating is not going to just stop. It
will continue but it will have to be shipped out of CA and then
back to CA. Do you think that pollution will not cross state
lines? Forcing us to go
across the border is not a big help for all parties involved. It
will just continue to raise the prices in this time of
inflation.
We can tell the
difference from hexavalent and TRI. TRI is not even close
to the quality of hexavalent
chrome. If we were to
try to pass off the lesser quality to our clients they would see
the difference and would leave our shop for shops in other states.
Please do not force more people to flee
CA. I believe California can be one of the best states in the
union; we just need to stop hampering capitalism.
Please shut down this proposed
legislation.