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Dear Board Members:
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to respond to this
important subject.  I live in Redondo Beach, Ca. and have watched &
read how the use of trucks in the harbor area of Long Beach has
been held under close scrutiny regarding emissions.  I want to see
this continued and other green house ideas used in all our urban
areas for the benefit of city dwellers.  In Redondo we have natural
gas vehicles cleaning our streets and Torrance has low emission
busses...a step in the right direction.  

I inquired into putting solar panels on my home.  It is not
possible for me as a retired home owner to afford this and I am
very disappointed that this is not more feasable.  If all our
commercial building that are in the city and at least 1/2 of the
homes, it would make a big difference in cost to run our businesses
and it would take the pressure off the delivery system during peak
hours. This would take the pressure off the power plants to supply
electricity by burning gas. Batteries now are becoming more
efficient to maintain the electricity for the evening hours.  Many
small businesses are closed down in the evening using only at
night.  

I was very disappointed in the problem that one of our L.A.
Colleges had a problem when they initiated a method of saving
millions of dollars of electrical cost only to have their hands
tied by P G and E their power supplier because they had a contract
to buy their power only from PB&E.  I don't know how that turned
out, but these are the things that keep us from moving ahead.  A
private company installed the solar and was going to sell the
electricity supplied by the solar panels and in 6 years it would
belong to them.  I saw this done in Fresno, Ca. and it was the
parking lot for one of their community buildings.  All our parking
lots should be like this.  What a difference it would make.  Let's
make it happen.