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Dear California Air Resources Board,

The proposed amendments to California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard
are a environmental policy failure that backslides on reducing
pollution. 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 environment to continue sending more tax dollars to polluting
industries. 

The 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 is seriously wrong to allow these funds
to continue to languish on the sidelines, instead of facilitating
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. 

Please change course and modernize the program by reflecting the
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, we could add a clean
air multiplier to the credits system, especially for public fleets
that transport many people at once, delivering major benefits for
air quality and throwing a lifeline to cash strapped transit
agencies. 

We 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 essential
goals.

Sincerely,
Karl Twombly
34 Cork Tree  Rancho Mirage, CA 92270-5659