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Dear CARB Board members:
    
   The Global Warming Solutions Act is a very promising forward
step to combat Global Warming.
    
   I hope you will consider a few changes.
    
   All emission allowances should be auctioned off. Program
revenues should go toward GHG reduction programs, such as clean
technologies, green jobs, and aid for low-income consumers and
small businesses to reduce their utility bills. 
  The role of offsets in the Plan must be reduced or eliminated.
It is not fair that the wealthy should be allowed to buy a right to
pollute our low income neighborhoods and habitat areas. Offsets
have the potential to stifle clean energy technology innovation.
Limiting offsets will create more clean-energy jobs, stimulating
our state's economy.
   The targets for local governments to reduce emissions must be
increased. They have to be stopped in their foolish approval of
poorly planned growth. There is nothing smart about high density
development when there is no reliable, cheap, dependable transit
that goes directly to where the people living in the devlopment
need to go. What is happening now is cities keep adding people who
have multiple cars, which they use for multiple trips every day.
   Please require businesses, government offices and residents  to
recycle their materials. 
   We have a chance to make California even better as we address
one of the worst crises our planet has ever faced. Strong CARB
policies will help our state's residents realize some of the
benefits we will receive by taking on global warming pollution:
reduced air pollution, more clean-energy jobs, less waste and
healthier communities.
    
   Thanks again for your work on behalf of clean air for
California.