[Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: GP Concerns? Deadline 3/27!! EPA is Negative too!

Sun Mar 16 22:55:00 PDT 2008

Wes,
Here's another interesting fact from Barbara Boxer:
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Slowly but surely, we're getting to the truth behind Bush EPA  
Administrator Stephen Johnson's terrible decision to block an effort  
by California and 18 other states to fight global warming.

While carefully peeling back white tape on redacted documents -- and  
with EPA personnel peering over their shoulders -- staffers from the  
Senate Environment & Public Works Committee have been closely  
reviewing additional documents dribbled out from the EPA over the  
past few weeks.

And what have we learned?  Administrator Stephen Johnson clearly  
overruled the unanimous recommendations of his legal and technical  
staff who advised him to grant California's waiver request to  
regulate greenhouse gas emissions -- putting partisan politics ahead  
of science, the law, and the health & safety of the American people.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Andrea Dorey <andid at cagreens.org>
> Date: March 14, 2008 7:08:16 PM PDT
> To: wrolley at charter.net
> Cc: Green Discuss <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] GP Concerns?  Deadline 3/27!!
>
> 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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>>
>> -- 
>> "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you  
>> don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente
>>
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