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To Whom It May Concern,

When considering new or modified legislation pertaining to fossil
fuels and their use in transportation & electric generation, please
remember a few things:

1) California already has a much lower per-capita, per-Kw, per-mile
driven pollution rate compared to other US states and especially
developing / newly industrialized nations like China

2) California continues to shed businesses & jobs, and scare off
major job-creating investors / corporations because of the
perception of uncontrolled legislation / rules that cost citizens
and tax payers too much for fuel & electricity.

3) We have already passed to the wrong side of the cost-benefit
curve, where efforts to further reduce pollution by up to a few %
points cost a whole lot more per % improvement than all the
previous improvements over the past 25 years or so.  Effort is
better spent pushing federal & international rules to improve
ocean-borne pollution from ships and require foreign countries with
poor standards to improve emissions-side improvements (better fuel
mileage, lower SOx, NOx, PM, mercury, and other pollutants).  

4) Market forces continue to increase renewables to a point where
they are a natural part of the energy mix.  Allow existing
regulations and market forces to guide Californian's every day
choices of fuel & electricity.