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As a licensed California solar contractor and long time renewable
energy advocate I strongly support California's goal to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by 174 million tons/year by 2020, which
means cutting vehicle emissions by about 70 million tons/year. The
California Air Resources Board is considering a plan on March 27
that will eliminate an average of only 291,000 tons/year by 2017
through its Zero Emission Vehicle Program. We need more than 200
times that progress by 2020! The plan also eliminates only a fifth
of the smog-forming emissions from tailpipes that doom thousands of
people to lung disease and
death.

Please require automakers to offer 100,000 zero-emission vehicles
for sale in 2012-2014 (less than 2% of the market) to get us
moving in the right direction. That's fewer than 6,000 vehicles
per year from each of the six largest car companies.