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Dear California Air Resources Board,

Wirh yhe massive budgetvdeficit that zCa is experiencing, it is
wise to reevaluate expenditures across the board.  Your proposed
amendments to California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard are moving in
the wrong direction and 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. 

I think the emphasis should be placed on reducing emissions using
the technology that we know works: clean electricity. Use funds
from the  CA Low Carbon Fuel Standard to promote this in our mass
transit systems..Trying to clean up a dirty industry is just
inefficient when we know electrical power is already clean and can
fuel mass transit programs that low income people rely on. 

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% of the LCFS's $3 to 4 billion each and
every year to combustion technology. Wouldn't it be better to allow
these funds to anchor our transition to a zero-emissions future.?

The world has changed a lot since the 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 the 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 object to that wasteful spending to support the
Fossil Fuel industry and Big Ag.

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 expeditiously to reform the program to achieve
our state's ambitious goals.

Sincerely,
Marianna Riser
424 Calle Arboleda  Novato, CA 94949-6305