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Like it or not your organization is THE MOST IMPORTANT IN THE
WORLD!  

Canada's 30 million people is "too small a market" to legislate
unilateral standards.  But somehow California  - with about the
same number of people - has managed to implement it's own
environmental standards for the past 20 years or so.  

The 1980's ZEV rules gave the rest of the world (eg, me) some hope
that there might be an alternative to my smokey, polluting and
expensive petroleum powered car.  The withdrawal of those
requirements put the entire system back 20 years.  Now GM is
talking about 40 mile range, Toyota's plug in will go 8 miles. 
Big advances after the EV1 design, huh?  

You can pass the rules to make the big US manufactures produce the
cars for California that they will have to try to sell elsewhere to
recoup their costs - that will beat the rest of the world and allow
US engineers to design German automobiles & save the US economy -
no big deal, right?  

Or you can let Toyota import piles of cars to the US.