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Dear Air Resources Board:

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) on March 27 will revise
its Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Program, which put more than 5,000
electric cars on the roads and avoided more than 1 million metric
tons of carbon dioxide emissions (even when factoring in power
plant emissions). In 2003, however, changes to the ZEV Program
allowed electric cars to disappear as long as automakers promised
to produce 25,000 ZEVs in 2012-2014 and 50,000 in 2015-2017. Now
the automakers want out of that promise, and CARB will vote on a
proposal to weaken the Program again.

As a citizen concerned with air quality and global warming, both
of which are negatively impacted by CO-2 emissions, I request that
you take this opportunity to strengthen our state's ZEV Program,
both to help Californians and to set an example which other states
can and will follow.

Yours truly,
Julie Spickler