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Dear California Air Resources Board,

     Your proposed amendments to California's Low Carbon Fuel
Standard are a climate policy failure that backslides on the
state's role as a climate leader.   The program subsidizes
combustion fuels to the tune of billions of dollars per year and
has no place in our toolkit of climate policies for the 2020s. 
There is too much on the line for our climate to get this critical
program so wrong. 

     Governor Newsom's budget proposes significant delays and cuts
of hundreds of millions of dollars to vital zero-emission
transportation programs, which makes it all the more urgent to use
the Low Carbon Fuel Standard to more fully support zero-emissions
transportation.  Historically, California has thrown good money
after bad and devoted 80 percent of the LCFS's $3 to $4 billion
each and every year to combustion technology.  It would be wild to
allow these funds to continue to languish on the climate sidelines
instead of anchoring our transition to a zero-emissions future. 

     The world has changed a lot since implementation of the LCFS
in 2009.  Unlike the 2000s, we have a north star goal for our
climate and the air we breathe:  zero emissions transportation.   
Continuing to invest the billions in revenue from LCFS into harmful
and polluting biofuels that end up combusted, instead of electric
vehicles powered by clean energy, hampers our efforts to fight the
climate crisis while enriching oil companies and industrial
agriculture. 

     I urge you to correct your course and modernize the program by
reflecting your consensus that the only way to meet air quality
standards is through eliminating combustion altogether, not piling
on billions of dollars in lavish incentives for combustion each and
every year.  By focusing on real air pollution solutions, you could
add a clean air multiplier to the credits system, especially for
public fleets that transport many people at once, would deliver
major benefits for California's air quality, and throw a lifeline
to cash-strapped transit agencies that low-income Californians
depend on for mobility. 

     California cannot meet our clean air and climate goals without
harnessing the power of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard and
overhauling this multibillion-dollar program for our zero emissions
future.  Please act quickly to reform the program to achieve our
state's ambitious goals.

Sincerely,
Yvonne Smith
1648 Carmel Cir E  Upland, CA 91784-1703