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Comment 18 for Transportation Symposium to Discuss 50% Petroleum Reduction Goal (transportationsym-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Mark
Last Name: Shaw
Email Address: markjshaw@verizon.net
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Subject: 50% Petroleum Reduction Goal
Comment:
The government of the State of California has no business telling or even contemplating how persons or their businesses are or are not to go about their business, including which products they may or may not consume, including whether they may or may not consume petroleum products. The only business of the government of the State of California, in the interest of its citizens, is to ensure that the lives of its citizens are protected to the best practicable extent. Understand this: Vehicles directly powered by petroleum products emit virtually zero unhealthful matter into the air, which is virtually no more unhealthful matter than vehicles directly powered by electric batteries, hydrogen, or other non-petroleum sources. It therefore makes no rational sense for the state to mandate any reduction in the use of vehicle-powering petroleum products. And, in any case, it makes no sense for the state to mandate what or how a vehicle may be powered without a demonstration that the vehicle is emitting substances into the air that are of significant harm to the health of the public. The CARB must therefore cease mandating any level of petroleum product use in vehicles, especially the currently contemplated 50% reduction goal. It is not rational. It is not scientific. It is a waste.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2015-08-04 09:31:28
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