First Name | Lisa |
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Last Name | Pettitt |
Email Address | lisapettitt85@gmail.com |
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Subject | Please reform the Low Carbon Fuel Standard |
Comment | 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 |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2024-01-27 14:01:56 |
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