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Subject: Cap and Trade ARB vote Dec 16

Dear Steve

I am an educated, politically active, liberal, environmentally
concerned  CA resident and it is by total coincidence that I know
anything about CA's push towards cap and trade. In other words, 
the few back page articles in the SF Chron were easy to miss and I
certainly never saw the specifics about the California
Environmental Protection Agency | AIR RESOURCES BOARD ARB Emissions
Trading Program until today. What did catch my eye was the Chron's
news last week  that the majority of Californians support cap and
trade.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/09/BUNB1GNPUA.DTL

Although I am not a certified pollster, I humbly challege whoever
took this poll... I have been informally polling my educated,
active peer group about this subject for the last month and no one
even knew what cap and trade meant... other than it was some  way
to fix the carbon pollution problem. Sad but true. So I don't know
how a majority of Californians support cap and trade when I can't
find one smart person who even understands it.

I have many questions and concerns about cap and trade not just for
CA but for the Country and for the world. The first and maybe least
important is: Where was the California Environmental Protection
Agency | AIR RESOURCES BOARD ARB Emissions Trading Program  and the
call for comments published for CA residents to read and reply? ( I
found out totally by coincidence through a friend.) The second is:
what does this vote mean? The third is: how can my voice be heard?

This email to you is a partial answer to my third question...I want
the Air Resources Control Board to know that there is  at least one
person outside SAC's  closed doors who is concerned about the
concept of cap and trade. Common sense tells me this is just
another Ponzi scheme that will make a few people very rich and the
rest of us poorer than we are now, while the planet continues to be
polluted.

So for the record of comments, I am against the California
Environmental Protection Agency | AIR RESOURCES BOARD ARB Emissions
Trading Program, and think most Californians, if they really
understood what is being promoted, would be against it too.

Thank you for the opportunity to comment. The favor of your reply
is requested.

Gael Perrin
Novato, CA