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California EPA/Air Resources Board,

I am writing to comment on the proposed 2008 amendments to the
California Zero Emission Vehicle Regulation.  I am not an expert
on  ZEV or regulations pertaining to them.  I am merely a consumer
who is very concerned about the environment in California and the
negative effect that we, as humans, are having on the environment,
especially with regard to vehicle-generated air pollution and its
impact on Global Climate Disruption.

To my unlearned eye, it looks like the amendments you are
proposing are completely gutting the portions of the regulation
that were adopted to mandate ZEV beyond 2008.  If I am
interpreting this correctly, I want to lodge my deepest concerns
and urge you in the strongest possible terms to do all you can to
require automobile manufacturers and others to continue to convert
their fleets of passenger cars and light duty trucks to ZEV, and at
a MINIMUM, the ZEV requirements of 11% in 2009-11, 12% in 2012-14,
14% in 2015-17, and 16% in 2018 and beyond be sustained.

If a plug-in ZEV passenger car, hybrid or battery-powered, were
available today, I would purchase one within the next 12 months
and use the solar panels that I will soon have installed on my
roof to charge it.  It is my understanding that your organization
is responsible for solutions to our current and looming air
quality problems.  Please do all you can to maintain and
strengthen ZEV requirements.

Kind regards,

Matt Foster