[Sosfbay-discuss] GP Concerns? Deadline 3/27!!

Fri Mar 14 19:08:16 PDT 2008

Wes,
The EAA (Electric Auto Assn) has been very successful in heading off  
proposed cut backs in Zero Emissions in the past by attending  
hearings and testifying, but this latest proposal looks like a tough  
one, meant to "disappear" electric cars, unless we can get the public  
to get enraged about these continuous attacks on the Zero Emissions  
standards that California has attempted to set in spite of the ARB,  
the EPA, and Washington, D.C.   (This, in spite of the fact that  
Tesla Motors is starting their delivery of their hot new roadster  
energized entirely by lithium batteries, 0-60 in 3 seconds, 200 miles  
or more between recharges.

DC recently stated that California does not have "special  
circumstances" that require a higher standard set than that of the  
Federal's.  (Really?  Aren't we the state with the highest pollution  
levels due in part to excesses by agribusiness?)

Interesting, isn't it?  Once we celebrated when a state not only  
obeyed the Federal standard but over and above it.  Now the states  
are being constrained by those standards.

BTW, ZEV includes the Fuel Cell cars which to date require 6 barrels  
of oil to produce the hydrogen that will replace one barrel of oil.   
It's strange, but at the heart of any alternative energy car is an  
electric car that outperforms ANY other system added to it: whether  
fuel cell, biodiesel, methane, internal combustion engine, etc.

The energy delivery corporations would rather bury us in tar than see  
any of us drive electric cars using virtually free energy from the  
sun from our PV-tiled roofs. Even Toyota, with its successful Prius  
hybrid, refuses to create a plug-in attachment to change your hybrid  
into a part-time electric car, easily capable of driving at least 40  
miles on its electrics.  We now have 7 of those Prius hybrids,  
adapted with plug-in capability by EAA members, happily driving  
around the Bay Area with "100 miles+" painted on their sides.  Well,  
Toyota????
Andi

On Mar 13, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Wes Rolley wrote:

> Andrea Dorey forwarded the note below...
>
> If I were one to be cynical, I might suggest that there was a  
> relationship between the fact that the California Air Resources  
> Board Chairman, Mary Nichols is married to a lawyer who represents  
> EXXON Chevron and the action described below...but then I am not  
> cynical.
>
> I might also suggest that there was a relationship between this  
> action and Mary Nichols' holdings in 13 Energy Companies (Chevron  
> holdings over $100K)  as reported in the SF Chornicle last  
> August.... but then I am not cynical.
>
> Still it is obvious what Mary Nichols meant when, in her letter to  
> Schwarzenegger accepting the post... "instructions to ARB staff for  
> modifications to encourage the production and use of electric and  
> plug-in hybrid electric vehicles..." but I am not cynical.
>
> No, I am not cynical.  I am pissed off that such GreenWashing is  
> accepted and that this mis-use of the word "green" should be an  
> embarrassment to the Green Party.
>
> Wes
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> Date: March 11, 2008 12:31:57 PM PDT
>> Subject: Re: EAA Special Notification
>>
>> Dear Andrea Dorey,
>>
>> On March 27th, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is  
>> scheduled to vote on a change to their Zero Emissions Vehicle  
>> (ZEV) program that could delay production EVs another decade.  The  
>> Electric Auto Association urges you to take action to make  
>> California aware that you want production EVs back on the roads.   
>> We have set up a website to help.  The ZEV goals were once 2% in  
>> 1998, 3% in 2001, and 10% in 2003, but later the program was put  
>> off a decade.
>>
>> Now as the end of that decade draws near, CARB staff proposes to  
>> delay another decade.  Staff calls for 840 vehicles per year  
>> (0.04%) in 2012 through 2014.  The old 1998 target is fifty times  
>> what is now being proposed for 16 years later.  In 2015 CARB  
>> proposes only 0.4%. The 2012 goals do not even approach the number  
>> of vehicles previously shown to be possible.
>>
>> The EAA does not normally use email except for membership  
>> reminders.  Because of urgent upcoming decision that may affect  
>> EVs to years to come, we are sending this email to ask that you  
>> join a low-traffic mailing list that the EAA will use to alert you  
>> to developments where your emails, letters, faxes, phone calls,  
>> etc. could make a big difference.  Participation is optional, but  
>> please do consider joining and help us advocate for EVs in  
>> important battles, such the one that will be decided on 3/27.
>>
>> For further information about what you can do to let California  
>> know you want a meaningful ZEV program, please visit:
>>
>>    http://www.eaaev.org/action/
>>
>> This page also has details on how to join our EV-advocacy mailing  
>> list to get future notices.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>>
>> Ron Freund
>>
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