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Wes,<div>Here's another interesting fact from Barbara Boxer:</div><div>----------------</div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">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.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">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.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">And what have we learned? <b>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. </b></font></p><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">Andrea Dorey <<a href="mailto:andid@cagreens.org">andid@cagreens.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">March 14, 2008 7:08:16 PM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:wrolley@charter.net">wrolley@charter.net</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">Green Discuss <<a href="mailto:sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org">sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] GP Concerns?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Deadline 3/27!!</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> Wes,<div>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.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>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?) </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>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. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>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. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>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????</div><div>Andi</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 13, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Wes Rolley wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> Andrea Dorey forwarded the note below...<br> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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 <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/08/18/MNGBRKMAO.DTL">Chornicle </a>last August.... but then I am not cynical. <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> Wes <br> <blockquote cite="mid:E45FDF0A-FBCB-4EE3-B19E-BE4BB531A962@cagreens.org" type="cite"> <div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Lucida Grande; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Begin forwarded message:</font></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3"><b>Date: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(0, 14, 220);" color="#000edc" face="Helvetica" size="3">March 11, 2008 12:31:57 PM PDT</font></div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3"><b>Subject: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(0, 14, 220);" color="#000edc" face="Helvetica" size="3"><b>Re: EAA Special Notification</b></font></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(0, 14, 220); min-height: 13px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5">Dear Andrea Dorey,</font><font style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5">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.</font></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5"> </font></p> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5"><b>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.</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5"> </font></p> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5">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 <b>will be decided on 3/27</b>.</font></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5"> </font></p> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5">For further information about what you can do to let California know you want a meaningful ZEV program, please visit:</font></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5"> </font></p> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5"> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.eaaev.org/action/"><font style="color: rgb(0, 16, 254);" color="#0010fe">http://www.eaaev.org/action/</font></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5"> </font></p> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5">This page also has details on how to join our EV-advocacy mailing list to get future notices.</font></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5"> </font></p> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5">Sincerely,</font></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5"> </font></p> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="5">Ron Freund</font></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Times" size="4"> </font></p> <div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 13px;"><br> </div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><font style="font-family: Lucida Grande; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Lucida Grande" size="1">No virus found in this outgoing message.<br> Checked by AVG.<br> Version: 7.5.518 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1322 - Release Date: 3/9/2008 12:17 PM</font></p> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </span></font></div> <pre wrap=""><hr size="4" width="90%">_______________________________________________
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