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I am wrtiting today as a small business owner in opposition to
AB1346. If this were to pass, I along with hundreds, if not
thousands, of other small businesses throughtout CA would cease to
exist. We are in the business of selling commercial pressure
washers, which help keep our cities clean. We sell both gas powered
and electric powered units and most of our clients (small
businesses like us) opt for gas powereed units for obvious reasons.
Electric powered units are no match compared to gas powered units.
We are just not at a place where electric powered units will be as
effective. Not to mention more water will have to be used, longer
cleaning times, financial burden of purchasing all new equipment,
multiple batteries required to complete a job, all existing users
having to charge batteries every night and day, the toxic chemicals
inside batteries (doesn't this also affect the environment?)etc.
The loss of hundreds or thousands of small businesses will result
in higher un-employment rates and higher rates of people on
government assisted programs to get by due to loss of income.
Please reconsider.  

Sincerely,
Small CA Business Owner