Hot Gas Home Refueling Draft Letter to CARB

[AllanGX]

Here's a Word Doc with a draft of a letter to the head of CARB encouraging them to change their policy towards use of "hot" gas for home refueling.
Allan

[darress]

Re: Hot Gas Home Refueling Draft Letter to CARB

Great letter. Keep us posted on any response you get.

[Curtis]

Re: Hot Gas Home Refueling Draft Letter to CARB

Allan, did he say to print and mail it, in which case you'd need to mail all the cc's as well, or do we have an email that we can use to have the group blast them with?

[AllanGX]

Re: Hot Gas Home Refueling Draft Letter to CARB

Curtis,
He did not provide an email address so I was planning on snail-mailing to all folks. I suspect a piece of paper in the hand would command more attention.
Allan

[BiggJohn]

Re: Hot Gas Home Refueling Draft Letter to CARB

Here are the email addresses and contact numbers:

Nichols, Mary - (916) 322-5840 - [email protected]
Sperling, Daniel - (916) 327-6247 - [email protected] or dsperling@arb.ca.gov
Hill, Jerry - (916) 327-6247 - [email protected] or jhill@arb.ca.gov
D'Adamo, Dorene - (916) 327-6247 - [email protected] or ddadamo@arb.ca.gov
Riordan, Barbara - (916) 327-6247 - [email protected] or briordan@arb.ca.gov
Balmes, M.D. John - (916) 327-6247 - [email protected] or jbalmes@arb.ca.gov
Kennard, Lydia - (916) 327-6247 - [email protected] or lkennard@arb.ca.gov
Berg, Sandra - (916) 327-6247 - [email protected] or sberg@arb.ca.gov
Roberts, Ron - (916) 327-6247 - [email protected] or rroberts@arb.ca.gov
Case, Judith - (916) 327-6247 - [email protected] or jcase@arb.ca.gov
Loveridge, Ron - (916) 327-6247 - [email protected] or rloveridge@arb.ca.gov

The Board, with the exception of Mary Nichols, generally doesn't check their personal ARB email. the "arbboard" account is managed by Board staff.

[CaptJeff]

Re: Hot Gas Home Refueling Draft Letter to CARB

Allan,
I like the basic letter, but when it refers to 'quality' of the gas. It seems to acquiesce that the gas we want to be albe to use is of poorer quality.The fact is that the existing 'quality' standard LIMITS the 'quality' or energy content of the gas, thereby actually prohibiting higher quality or energy level fuel from meeting an archaic standard which was instituted back when old technology busses were being used. Personally I will re-write a version of the letter showing that the standard is archaic and inappropriate.
Best,
Jeff

[AllanGX]

Re: Hot Gas Home Refueling Draft Letter to CARB

CaptJeff,
Excellent points. I'd love to see your rewrite if you don't mind sharing.
Allan