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Dear California Air Resources Board,

Hello, My name is Lisa Pettitt in CA We can't wait any longer to
move to another resource.  We needed it 20 yrs.ago. I want a
cleaner Earth. We AS IN OUR GOVERNMENT REFUSES TO GET IT DONE. IT
IS ALL TALK AND ZERO ACTIONS. I 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% 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 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 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. PLEASE MOVE ON THIS TODAY!!! NO TIME
TO SIT HERE AND DO NOTHING FOR our grandkids and theirs for our
families futures and for your family's futures do you really want
to set them up to die because that is what's going to happen and
it's already been happening we have toxic Waters we have a dead
ocean and we have nothing but plastic in our ocean oh sorry I
forgot we have something else in our ocean we have fukushima's
nuclear waste in that ocean and Humboldt County's nuclear waste
also dumped into the ocean and I'm going to believe all over the
planet they're doing it well that's going to kill some creatures
some sea animals you know those things that keep washing up on the
sand for god sakes people stop feeling your own bank accounts
because you're going to kill your own family's futures. Do
something now it's almost too late and the minute the government
knows it's too late now it's just stop doing anything but continue
to become richer richer rich or rich. Move on this today. Or you
will kill your own family and all human's too. T/Y LISA PETTITT
CA.

Sincerely,
Lisa Pettitt
LISAPETTIT Gmailcom  Fortuna, CA 95540