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To Mary Nichols, CARB chair and Board members:

As a long term native California resident, and parent of 3
children and a grand child, I am concerned with the degraded air
quality we have in our fair state as well as the lack of
economically priced ZEV's available for consumers to purchase
and/or lease.  We all know that the technology exists today to
produce moderately priced ZEVs, however, it is clear that the auto
manufactures have resisted and have fought against regulations
requiring them to make available these vehicles on a large scale. 


This "fight" that the auto manufactures have pursued has resulted
in delays for our state and our nation in developing and
incorporating alternative energy stategies that can help make us
more energy independent, to have better air quality and less
negative impacts on our natural resouces, and to ultimately ensure
a better standard and quality of life for us and our future
generations.    

I request that you, and the California Air Resources Board (CARB),
not reduce the number of ZEVs required of automakers by 90%,
settling for only 2,500 from 2012-2014, but rather, continue, and
if possible, increase the requirement of the automakers to produce
over the full 25,000 ZEVs between 2012 to 2014 as has been
previously mandated.  In addition, I request that you create a
separate requirement for plug-in hybrids that will let them
replace the dirtiest vehicles in CARB's regulations, rather than
the cleanest ZEVs.

As a resident of California, I believe that the time has come for
our State Government to place the needs of our citizens and the
long term health of our environment above the whims of the auto
industry.  

Please do what is clearly right and madate that the automakers
produce at least the 25,000 ZEVs between 2012 and 2014.  

Thank you for your consideration.

Bill Deitchman