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California needs an electric-powered transportation system from one
end of the state to the other, in Los Angeles, second-largest city
in the country, and in small towns, no matter how remote from urban
centers. California has electric-powered transportation systems in
boutique locations like Santa Barbara and they work very well
there. You don't have to be an environmental scientist to confirm
this. Just take a deep breath as a bus pulls up or pulls away. Note
how clean the air smells and feels. California can do this. It is
not a "utopian" dream or something that will take money we don't
have to expedite. We just need to sever our relations with the
fossil-fuel industry, which keeps our governor and our elected
representatives and our boards of supervisors and regulators locked
into an archaic energy solution for public transportation (i.e.,
fossil fuels). The members of the Air Resources Board . need to
protect the air Californians breathe, one of our most important
commons, and one that must be protected from rapacious fossil-fuel
corporations if it is to be passed down as an irreplaceable legacy.