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Comment 119 for Greenhouse Gas Heavy Duty Vehicles (SmartWay) (ghghdv08) - 45 Day.

First NameLisa
Last NameKayser-Grant
Email Addresslkgrant3@earthlink.net
Affiliation
SubjectAdopt strongest diesel truck rules
Comment
Dear Members of CARB,

Please adopt the strongest rules for reducing smog from all diesel
trucks and buses, with no exemptions made for particular uses or
classes of trucks. In order to ensure the intended results of the
rules you adopt, please include measures that will allow the rules
to be enforceable within explicit time limits.

Your own legal commitment to cleaning the air in the smoggiest
parts of the state, as well as your commitment to reducing
greenhouse gases, depends on strong and decisive action that you
must now take. 

I love living in the San Joaquin but am struggling to justify
staying here now that my husband has developed asthma, and my
daughter is growing up here developing the only lungs she'll ever
have. 

I understand that the strongest rules you can adopt have high
financial costs to those who use the polluting vehicles, but we
know that everyone breathing polluted air pays even higher costs 
in terms of money spent on health care, money lost from being sick,
and the devastating loss of health and even life. We also know and
accept that cleanup costs will be passed on to consumers, who can
them make better choices about what to buy once the financial costs
of pollution are attached to the items that caused it.

Many of the people driving the trucks oppose the rules based on
money, but they are among the ones most affected by this pollution
and you are charged with protecting them in spite of their
protests. 

"Necessity is the mother of invention": technology will follow
once the rules are made and the market for it is ensured. Likewise
for incentive funding.

We are counting on you to protect our health and our economy by
creating and enforcing the best possible rules to clean up diesel
pollution in California.

Sincerely,
Lisa Kayser-Grant
Merced, CA

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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted 2008-12-10 11:43:31

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