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Dear Board Members, 

Thank you for your excellent work in developing this proposal.  We
have an excellent opportunity here in California to develop a model
market-based system for the entire country.  If we can show people
that the free market can solve this problem, we have a chance of
avoiding the environmental train wreck that we see accelerating
around us.  

A big part of setting up a working market is providing certainty,
and the proposed plan addresses this in many ways. Thank you!

I would prefer to see fewer permits given out for free, which
allows the state to create winners and losers (mostly perpetrating
the winners in the existing system in which pollution is free for
polluters but taxpayers have to deal with the problems it creates).
A real market system would not only be fair, it would also raise
more money. 

Some of that money should go to California households to offset
costs that no doubt would be passed on to consumers by utilities.
This would be a big help in getting people invested in the project.


Thank you again for your work and your consideration of these
public comments.

Professor Annamaria Amenta

PS As a working scientific researcher, let me assure you that there
are very few scientific conclusions that are more certain than the
evidence for climate change, and that the evidence just in this
year indicates that the situation is even worse than we thought
when AB 32 was passed. The agricultural damage and human suffering
we will see from disruption of our delicate water system in the
Delta and the Central Valley is important around here, not to
mention the damage to the coasts from rising sea levels in our
children's lifetime.