I wrote this as an edit to my earlier post, but figured it was long enough to warrant it's own post.
I agree that something needs to be done with CARB, but I don't think blasting it out of the water is a good idea at all.
my edit.
This website is the most uninformed, biased, and utterly ignorant website that I have come across in a number of years. They use false information to motivate an unknowing and ignorant population into thinking that support is a great idea.
Lets take a look... shall we?
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Reformulated Diesel Fuel: Do you remember when CARB mandated that Diesel Fuel be reformulated without adequate testing in the 1990's? The new fuel damaged thousands of diesel engines in the state and over ten million dollars of state funds were used to replace many of the damaged engines. You the taxpayers and working people paid for this. Bet your legislators never told you about this. But they fired 20,000 teachers in the state recently because they wasted your tax dollars on fraud agencies like CARB where they have placed their friends and political cronies on the payroll until the next election.
May I introduce the mandate of ULSD into use for street driven Diesel powered vehicles. Let us not forget that the use of ULSD has been proven to drastically cut down on the amount of so2 in the atmosphere which when mixed with h2o forms the compound h2so4 that kills vegetation, animal life, and eats through paint.
And the vast lay-offs in the state are just the poor budgeting of state officials since the days of former Gov. Wilson. That is nothing new, but Gov. Schwarzenegger, is to ignorant to see what needs to be done.
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MTBE: Over thirty billion paid out by working families over ten years for extra 20 to 30 cents a gallon. Estimated 10 billion dollars more to clean up ground water around the state that is contaminated with MTBE. CARB has an army of professional liar "public information officers" who spread the CARB propaganda to keep the CARB agency budget growing every year. They spent ten years lying to both the legislature and the public about the "benefits" of MTBE in your gasoline. Finally, the legislature had to ban MTBE in your gas when scientists proved that it was a poison to our environment and you. The average working family was forced to pay out over eight thousand dollars over ten years for the MTBE poison in their gasoline in California. (They would have over $12,000 in the bank today for their childrens' education if that money had been saved and invested).
MTBE was a bad idea, but it was just a band-aid to cover up the bigger issues of population excess, poor conservation of natural resources, and too many special interest lobbies having their finger in the pot. If you are given $10 to fix a $1000 problem, you are going to come up with something like MTBE. The hike in fuel prices throughout the state is what pays for CARB, but that is only a couple cents on the dollar AND was voted on by the public, not CARB. The other excess fuel charges come from no further than the oil companies themselves. The SF Bay area produces a surplus of fuels every year, yet they have one of the highest fuel prices in the nation. When natural disasters hit the south east, the prices in the Bay Area went up as much as $.20/gal. This is strange to anyone that paid attention to the situation. When one of the Bay Area refineries was damaged by an accident and out of production for a few months, fuel prices only went up $.03/gal. So, yes, MTBE was a mistake, but to blame the fuel prices and layoffs of teachers on CARB is like blaming your wife's horrible attempt at Soufflé on the grocery store.
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Electric Car mandate: CARB set the American automotive industry back by ten years in developing hybrid cars because CARB would not allow them as zero emission or low emission cars while CARB insisted on demanding that 5% of cars in California had to be electric cars. Only after they were forced to admit that the electric cars were a fraud, did they allow hybrid cars. By that time the Japanese manufacturers were way ahead of America. That has cost the American workers in the auto industry over 200.000 jobs and crushed the industry.
This one is my personal favorite because it is the most blatant muttering of FALSE accusations on the killcarb.org website.
The American automotive industry, big oil, and Dr. Alan Lloyd are responsible for the failure of the electric car programs. The electric cars worked, there was a waiting list for them a few thousand people long. Now, did people outside the state of CA know these electric cars were being produced and sold? NOPE! GM didn't even bother attempting to promote the vehicle through decent advertising. Yet EVERY single EV-1 produced rolled off the lot within hours of it's arrival. The same went for the Ford Ranger EV, Toyota Rav-4 EV, and the like. These cars did everything they were supposed to do and more. CARB made the bold move to require that 5% of all cars sold in the US were to be electric, and this forced the automotive industry to start thinking about the future, and where to go next. They resisted, hell, at the time American's were too busy buying up big dumb SUV's that guzzle down fuel, while they witch about how much fuel costs. GM was so apt at proving that an electric car would fail, they presented rebates for SUV's, but overcharged for the EV-1. Once the leases of the EV-1 were returned, GM took them to their proving grounds in Az, and crushed every one of them. This was the same for the Toyota, Honda, and Fords. They were all crushed and hidden away from sight so the public didn't see how GOOD they really were.
GM then dropped the program and went on building crap like the H2. Meanwhile, the likes of Toyota and Honda took this EV movement as a sign of the future and continued to progress the technology. The Big 3 made the choice to do things as normal, praying on the "buy American" movement and their past customer's loyalty to continue business as they did in the 60's. The inflated credit market only fueled this, and when it burst, they were left with their cheese in the wind. In conjunction, the "green movement" picked up steam at the same time. Nothing they built got decent mileage, or was good for the planet, so sales dropped. Rather than bringing over vehicles from Europe and Asia they already produced, they tried to sell more CRAP to Americans. Their failure in recent years is only evident of their inability to predict the future, know where things were headed, or evolve their business plan. All of these things are exactly what kills a business... which it did.
As for the US being 10yrs behind because of electric car development... that is utter BS. Not only was the technology there, produced, and able to be mass produced, but they hired different people for the project. This meant all the designers and thinkers at GM were still at work producing such wonders of automotive technology as the Aztek and H2/H3. Once the project was abandoned, they fired every one of the people who worked in the program. When GM took it's big ole crap, and the bottom fell out of their feeble business plan, Toyota offered to send over engineers to help GM develop a program for hybrid vehicles. They declined the offer, and came out with a few Hybrid's that get almost as bad economy as their gasser brethren.
So, believe what you want, but that website is based on pure conjecture praying on the average American's ignorance and unwillingness to do their own investigations. God Bless America!!!
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