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Letting the automakers off the hook for more ZEV vehicles in favor
of promises of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that are only 1/4 as
efficient is a strategy that has not worked. As a taxpayer, I have
no expectation that it will work in the future and am more than a
little irritated at the high cost for hydrogen refueling
infrastructure, and fuel cell research that has come at our
expense.

Better technology is here already as TESLA and Phoenix Motorcars
have already demonstrated. The only FCEV's that are even scheduled
to be released to consumers are lease only, city specific Hondas.
We have also been down the lease only path with Ford and GM. CARB
should not accept any automakers claim of production that isn't
available for purchase. GM, Toyota, Honda, and Ford are all guilty
of ripping the California taxpayers off (not to mention the early
adopters that participated with their own money and good will by
leasing these vehicles) by collecting incentive checks the State,
only to crush or otherwise destroy the vehicles when willing
purchasers were available.

I trust that you will waste my taxpayer dollars on incentives or
other subsidies for lease only vehicles, or hydrogen
infrastructure, when affordable, mass produced, PURCHASABLE FCEV's
are decades or more away.