Proposed Amendments to the California Cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Market- Based Compliance Mechanisms Regulation

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Comment From: William Houk

3/09/26 @ 11:07 AM
CARB, please understand that if and when you allow the cost of any fossil fuel to be increased you are hurting the people of California that can least afford it. Most of the citizens of California can afford the raise, even though we do not like it....↓
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Comment From: jorge humberto magallanes coss

3/09/26 @ 11:06 AM
Not in favor of more taxes hitting the fuels, as it will greatly increase cost of living. If CA imposes more tax (already heavily taxed) life will be way more unaffordable than what it is already, please oppose this. Thank you.
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Comment From: Kevin Kelley Kevin Kelley

3/09/26 @ 11:06 AM
Passing this legislation would be a mistake given the amount California consumers are paying for gasoline already. More and more businesses and people are leaving California due to the high cost of doing business. Adding another $.50 to $1.00 per g...↓
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Comment From: CARLA SANCHEZ

3/09/26 @ 11:04 AM
Raising gas on an already declining economy and mild recession time period is not what we the people want. I kindly ask you to reconsider. There are people out there barely making it on rent, food, and bills and can't afford this new tax. Focus on ot...↓
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Comment From: Jeremy Weinstein

3/09/26 @ 11:04 AM
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Comment From: Venise Smalley

3/09/26 @ 11:04 AM
Please have a heart for the working families. We don't need more taxes. Everything is significantly higher now - gas, groceries, rent, healthcare, utilities, insurance and the list is endless. We cannot afford to provide for our families with more...↓
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Comment From: Anthony Jordan

3/09/26 @ 11:03 AM
Life is already expensive enough. Groceries, rent, utilities. The cost of living in the California keeps climbing, and most families are doing everything they can just to keep up. Now, state regulators at the California Air Resources Board (CARB) are...↓
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Comment From: Mark Carter

3/09/26 @ 11:03 AM
California needs to remove the fuel tax on gasoline and deisel not add more costs and tax. The legislatures are driving people out of California. STOP THIS MADNESS!!!!!
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Comment From: Kristian Hoffmann

3/09/26 @ 11:00 AM
The Proposed Amendment materially increases the compliance costs imposed on transportation fuel suppliers in California. In practice, these additional costs will be passed through to consumers as higher retail fuel prices. Although framed as a regula...↓
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Comment From: Michael Borges

3/09/26 @ 10:58 AM
This tax will continue to hurt the working public who require the vehicle either to get to a job site or they use it as a business vehicle. We have enough taxes and this one is not needed. This tax will cut into working families budget and limit the ...↓
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Comment From: Robert Harty

3/09/26 @ 10:58 AM
This is no time to be adding more taxes on the people of California. $120 a Barrel. $6.00/Gal. You have to be out of your mind. Newsome and his hap hazard handling of our State Economics is destroying the good life in our state. No more!

Rob Harty
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Comment From: Michael Wiggs

3/09/26 @ 10:56 AM
I ask that those who are increasing are taxes to stop. We need money for food , gas , and day ,today living. Low income and middle class are unable to survive the make ends meet.
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Comment From: Lloyd Erlandson

3/09/26 @ 10:54 AM
Please reconsider any increase in gas taxes. Our air is the cleanest it's been in years. I don't think more money will make it any cleaner. California has the highest gas taxes of most states and the worst roads of most states.
STOP THE INCREASE IN ...↓
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Comment From: Dorothy Gaylene Ramos

3/09/26 @ 10:53 AM
Your decisions need to be based on our economic crisis here in California. The decisions being made do not reflect the public voices and our incomes. Seniors /Veterans are having to make choices between food, medications, a place to live, utilities, ...↓
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Comment From: Melissa Shook

3/09/26 @ 10:52 AM
When is this going to stop? We can't continue with taxes upon taxes! I have no choice but to commute to Stockton for work and I have to fill my tank up at least twice a week. At these prices and the prices to come I think I will be working just to fi...↓
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Comment From: Guillermo Juarez

3/09/26 @ 10:52 AM
All this happens just when going to closed regarding Epstein files trump is doing something and why we have to pay for that unfortunately after all this happens prices never going down and the companies make more money
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Comment From: Adam Hope

3/09/26 @ 10:50 AM
Californians already pay more taxes and fees than people in most states and we can't afford another tax/fee. Please don't implement this.
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Comment From: Rebecca Abinales

3/09/26 @ 10:47 AM
To whom it may concern:
We cannot pay more at the pump! Our family as well as most California families are struggling to meet higher grocery, heating & gas prices as it is. Please do the right thing and do not let this regulation and overtaxing to co...↓
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Comment From: Catherine Mendoza

3/09/26 @ 10:45 AM
Please - no more taxes on fuel!! My husband is an independent trucker, and we are about ready to give up doing business in California. The added taxes are making it unaffordable for everyone, but especially the small business owner. Additionally, I r...↓
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Comment From: Karl Snyder

3/09/26 @ 10:45 AM
Highway robbery used to be a term used when things were way higher than they should be. Now it is exactly that, we are being robbed to use our highways! Between the highest fuel prices, highest fuel taxes, highest registration & weight fees, it cos...↓
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Comment From: Philip Corbett

3/09/26 @ 10:43 AM Form Letter 2
Dear California Air Resources Board Public Comment,

I am writing to submit a public comment opposing CARB's draft regulations for the Cap-and-Invest program.
CARB should not rush through destabilizing regulations on a self-imposed timeline that fai...↓
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Comment From: Otto Schmidt

3/09/26 @ 10:42 AM
No more taxes please, too much burden on working families.
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Comment From: Kirk Dormody

3/09/26 @ 10:42 AM
I oppose this bill in every way possible. This money grab will do absolutely nothing to improve the lives of Californians or our environment. Billions of dollars have been taken from us with zero accountability. I'd call on California to rescind it's...↓
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Comment From: Gabrielle Jackson

3/09/26 @ 10:36 AM
Please, no more taxes. We do not need more funding for programs - we need stewardship of the programs we already have. The people suffer - do you see it?
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Comment From: Gabriel Hernandez

3/09/26 @ 10:35 AM
Do not pass these amendments as they will drive the last of the refineries out of California.

This will have a significant impact on the cost of living as energy prices increase, driving production and transportation costs up.
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Comment From: Genesis Silva

3/09/26 @ 10:30 AM
I am writing to express my opposition to the proposed amendments that would increase gasoline prices by an estimated 40 to 60 cents per gallon. While I understand and support California's long‑term climate goals, this proposal places a disproportiona...↓
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Comment From: Michelle LaMarr

3/09/26 @ 10:30 AM
Please do everything in your power to stop increasing the cost of living in California! we must be allowed to drill and use the oil resource in our own backyard, keeping the cost of and dependence on foreign oil down or not at all!. Stop taxing us fo...↓
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Comment From: Gloria Elliott

3/09/26 @ 10:29 AM
Please stop digging into Californians pockets! Cost of living are already extremely high! This is yet another unfair reach into the pockets of hard working people, while those who don't work get all the breaks. You're breaking us with such high costs...↓
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Comment From: Jason Hutton

3/09/26 @ 10:06 AM
We don't need any additional CARB regulations. We need less. Reducing regulations will bring down the price of gas which will reduce costs on products across the board. We need new refineries and rely on our own oil instead of letting others cash in ...↓
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Comment From: Colleen Meyer

3/09/26 @ 9:59 AM
All these gas taxes are ridiculous and you are just putting them on us with no recourse because you "have the power." Its unfortunate that you forgot with get powerconea great responsibility. It is a shame that you say you're working for the people. ...↓
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Comment From: bp America (Matt Pennington)

3/09/26 @ 9:59 AM
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Comment From: Kyle Meng

3/09/26 @ 9:50 AM
See attached PDF on a concern over proposed implementation of offsets under the cap and a proposed alternative approach.
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Comment From: Glass Packaging Institute (Jason Ikerd)

3/09/26 @ 9:49 AM
Please find attached comments from the Glass Packaging Institute.
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Comment From: Coalition (Center for Resource... (Lucas Grimes)

3/09/26 @ 9:28 AM
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Comment From: Center for Resource Solutions (Lucas Grimes)

3/09/26 @ 9:19 AM
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Comment From: Terace Luchini

3/09/26 @ 9:19 AM
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Comment From: Roger Stach

3/09/26 @ 9:13 AM
I am opposed to the proposed Proposed Amendments to the California Cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Market- Based Compliance Mechanisms Regulation. Gasoline is already too high in California and if these amendments pass the cost to live in this S...↓
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Comment From: David Vidal

3/09/26 @ 8:59 AM
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Comment From: Terace Luchini

3/09/26 @ 8:58 AM
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Comment From: Denise England

3/09/26 @ 8:48 AM
This proposal will unfairly impact families in rural California which lacks EV infrastructure and household income does not support the purchase of electric vehicles. Furthermore, these families travel farther to work, school, and markets resulting i...↓
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Comment From: Tan Rezaei

3/09/26 @ 8:32 AM
To the California Air Resources Board:

I am writing to urge CARB to reconsider any proposed amendments that would further increase gasoline prices for California families and businesses.

California motorists already face some of the highest fuel pr...↓
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Comment From: Nick Hawkins

3/09/26 @ 7:58 AM
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Comment From: Michael Nemeth

3/09/26 @ 7:31 AM
Please see my attached comments.
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Comment From: Wanda Granillo

3/09/26 @ 7:31 AM
Why? Why are we paying more at the gas pump than other states. You have already taxed us to death. We have lost businesses, jobs, and more since you are destroying California. Stop! We can't afford food let alone gas. Stop increasing everything. ...↓
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Comment From: Rick Veldstra

3/09/26 @ 7:14 AM
Your proposed rule making here is not only a mistake, it is a blunder that CA will not be able to recover from. If your goal is to put CA through a depression worst than the 1929 to 1934 great depression, than you are on the right track. Wake up an...↓
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Comment From: Cenovio Diaz

3/09/26 @ 6:59 AM
We cannot afford another gas tax. Please do the sensible thing and overturn this. We already have highest in the nation fuel costs.
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Comment From: Ratepayer Advocate - City of L... (Timothy O'Connor)

3/09/26 @ 6:56 AM
Please see attached comment letter from the Los Angeles City Ratepayer Advocate (Office of Public Accountability)
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Comment From: Steve Hewitt

3/09/26 @ 6:09 AM
Subject: Opposition to Proposed Cap-and-Invest Fuel Cost Increases

Dear Chair and Board Members,

I am writing to express my opposition to the proposed changes to California's Cap-and-Invest program that would significantly increase the cost of gaso...↓
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Comment From: SMUD (Sara Christian)

3/09/26 @ 5:05 AM

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Comment From: Tina Cavaleri

3/09/26 @ 1:38 AM
Enough of your virtue signaling and pocket lining while our state and its tax paying constituents see a new tax every day of the year. Apparently, CA Democrats never took economics or logical reasoning courses at the JC. Stop taxing us to death. Non...↓
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Comment From: Benjamin Gogna

3/09/26 @ 12:31 AM
Do not pass amendments that will drive California's last gas company out of the state while gas is already at/above $5.00 a gallon!

Declare a state of emergency!

Oppose these carb amendments!
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Comment From: Wendell Davis

3/09/26 @ 12:00 AM
The ARB had better vote down and refuse to pass any bill, program, amendments, programs, etc. which would drive gas refineries out of California

thus ensuring citizens are not hit with ever higher and higher fuels costs.



Signed

A Concerned Cit...↓
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Comment From: Roben Kennedy

3/08/26 @ 10:55 PM
PLEASE think of the average Californian that can barely pay their bills and DO NOT add yet another cost to oil!!! Gasoline prices affect EVERYTHING! We are BARELY surviving here and are too broke to leave the state! Do not pass yet another regulation...↓
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Comment From: Carlos Morales

3/08/26 @ 10:10 PM
Do not pass amendments that will drive , California last refineries out of the state while gas is already at six dollars a gallon.
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Comment From: Jose Perez

3/08/26 @ 9:59 PM
I already pay extremely high taxes; property tax, income tax, sales tax, gas tax. And now, this board wants to push more tax on California's hard working people. If this board passes another tax whether its a gas tax or mileage tax, people will be ce...↓
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Comment From: Melanie Banfield

3/08/26 @ 9:53 PM
I am opposed to the CARB Proposed Amendments to the California Cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Market- Based Compliance Mechanisms Regulation. I'm opposed to ANY amendments that will lower the supply of crude oil or gasoline in California and/or ...↓
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Comment From: Burbank Water and Power (Jason Maruca)

3/08/26 @ 9:48 PM
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Comment From: Alex H

3/08/26 @ 9:46 PM
This is a terrible time to drive up fuel costs. We are in a recession, real people, the real economy is in a recession. Fuel costs are already astronomical. Please don't pass add to our burdens
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Comment From: Roger Lehman

3/08/26 @ 9:39 PM
Thank you for the opportunity to comment. My wife Karen and I are both retired and living on a fixed income. The policies of this State and the specific regulations formulated by your Board are what we have endured our entire adult life. There is rea...↓
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Comment From: Ryan Freel

3/08/26 @ 9:38 PM
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Comment From: Sharon Murguia

3/08/26 @ 9:19 PM
California already has the highest gas prices in the country. No matter how much taxes are increased on fuel,no amount of money is going to change the climate. STOP making fuel more expensive and focus on bringing down the cost. Thank you.
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Comment From: Alex Chang

3/08/26 @ 9:14 PM
Do not pass amendments that will drive California last refineries out of the state while gas is already $6.00 a gallon
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Comment From: russ sandridge

3/08/26 @ 9:14 PM
The Agricultural Burden of Climate Regulation:
How CARB Cap-and-Trade Amendments Could Create Economic Hardship for California Farmers
Abstract

California's cap-and-trade program, administered by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), is one of ...↓
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Comment From: Andrea Mendoza

3/08/26 @ 9:13 PM
It is worth noting that many young folks cannot afford increasing gas prices in CA. I am 32. I work three jobs, and have many coworkers who also work multiple jobs, just to live comfortably in CA. Increasing gas prices and taxes is not a sustainable ...↓
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Comment From: Eric Essman

3/08/26 @ 9:12 PM
Please do not pass any amendments that will drive refineries out of California. Gas prices are already too expensive and working families cannot afford to pay $6.00 per gallon.
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Comment From: Mark Otjen

3/08/26 @ 9:09 PM
I oppose CARB drafting regulations for the Cap and Invest program that will shut down more oil refineries in this state.
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Comment From: Curtis Chatham

3/08/26 @ 9:01 PM
I oppose these amendments in the strongest possible terms. Do not pass amendments that will close the last remaining refineries in the state. We should be using our own oil here while lowering taxes on new energy sources - not selling our oil to othe...↓
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Comment From: Gary Pitkin

3/08/26 @ 8:55 PM
No more CARB increases related to cap and invest or any other rule or regulation! We, the taxpayers, are paying way too much for a gallon of gas.
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Comment From: Louis Butel

3/08/26 @ 8:43 PM
STOP making new regulations. You are not making a cleaner world. You are killing our state and our livelihood. Please reconsider these actions which will do nothing for the environment but will continue to burden the working poor and middle class. P...↓
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Comment From: Carlos Sepeda

3/08/26 @ 8:26 PM Form Letter 5
Stop taxing us to death. None of these taxes are helping Californians. They aren't helping the
environment. It's policy that has screwed the oil and gas industry in CA and policy that is
bankrupting Californians through more gas taxes, already the hi...↓
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Comment From: Dale Reavis

3/08/26 @ 8:22 PM
California needs our Gasoline , and our refinery's . we need the jobs .
Lets keep it in California !!
Thanks
Dale
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Comment From: Athena Ara

3/08/26 @ 7:21 PM
To the California Air Resources Board,

I am writing to firmly oppose any proposal to add an additional $1.00 per gallon to California gas prices. This is not a minor policy adjustment — this is a direct assault on the financial wellbeing of everyday...↓
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Comment From: James Rankin

3/08/26 @ 7:09 PM
At this time, further restrictions on carbon offsets may simply increase global carbon emissions because fuel will make longer journeys to reach markets as more California refineries close. That's no longer just a hypothetical risk, and you should he...↓
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Comment From: ERICA VELAZQUEZ

3/08/26 @ 7:01 PM
DO NOT PASS AMENDMENTS THAT WILL DRIVE CALIFORNIA'S LAST REFINERIES OUT OF THE STATE WHILE GAS IS ALREADY AT FIVE DOLLARS A GALLON. I OPPOSE THESE CARB AMENDMENTS!
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Comment From: David May

3/08/26 @ 6:58 PM
Sacramento has no idea how my family is already struggling. They continue to regulate my family out of being able to afford to live!
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Comment From: Stefan Guth

3/08/26 @ 6:07 PM
I cant comment on the facts (not an expert), but the math is fundamentally wrong. What the article reported as a 31% increase over the national average, is mathematically a 49% increase.
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Comment From: Climate Reality Project: Silic... (Ken Johnson)

3/08/26 @ 5:50 PM
Please find herewith our second comment letter (following up on our February 8 letter) recommending that CARB establish a price floor sufficient to adequately support SB 840 budget allocations, and further recommending that SB 840 funding from auctio...↓
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Comment From: Ruth Grotenhuis

3/08/26 @ 5:42 PM
Please oppose these amendments. This will negatively affect senior citizens on a fixed income, and young families who are already struggling just to pay the rent, and pay all the other taxes we already have. Seniors on fixed incomes cannot afford a...↓
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Comment From: Gerald Marlatt

3/08/26 @ 5:40 PM Form Letter 2
Dear California Air Resources Board Public Comment,

I am writing to submit a public comment opposing CARB's draft regulations for the Cap-and-Invest program.
CARB should not rush through destabilizing regulations on a self-imposed timeline that fai...↓
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Comment From: DeLorri Nettles

3/08/26 @ 5:07 PM Form Letter 2
Dear California Air Resources Board Public Comment,

I am writing to submit a public comment opposing CARB's draft regulations for the Cap-and-Invest program.
CARB should not rush through destabilizing regulations on a self-imposed timeline that fai...↓
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Comment From: LOIS CLAYTON

3/08/26 @ 4:43 PM
Do not pass any kind of amendments that take oil refiners out of California
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Comment From: Laura Laughlin

3/08/26 @ 4:09 PM
Unelected bureaucrats should not be passing any amendments that will drive California's last oil refineries out of the state while gas prices are already at approximately $6.00 per gallon.
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Comment From: Claudio Casillas

3/08/26 @ 3:57 PM
Do not pass anymore regulations that will make fuel more expensive for all of California. Environmental regulation is good but there is too much regulation and you are doing too much. The environmentalists who are pushing these regulations don't fund...↓
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Comment From: Robert Laughlin

3/08/26 @ 3:52 PM
We must declare a state of energy emergency for the State of California. The proposed amendment is detrimental to the citizens of California and will continue to pollute the world when the last refineries are closed in our state. We are already at ...↓
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Comment From: Chris Petersen

3/08/26 @ 3:12 PM
This will dramatically increase3 the cost of living in california for the hard working Cslifornian's. Instead of being thr refuge for undocumented people and financially distressed; they State is forcing them out.
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Comment From: Auric Kantz

3/08/26 @ 2:52 PM
I am writing to express strong opposition to the Proposed Amendments to the Cap-and-Trade Regulation. These changes threaten to significantly increase direct costs on California consumers and businesses by accelerating the reduction of allowances. By...↓
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Comment From: Gerry Grotenhuis

3/08/26 @ 2:30 PM
Please do not pass any of the proposed amendments that will raise gas prices and/or cause more refineries to close in our state
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Comment From: Iris Martin

3/08/26 @ 2:03 PM
We need our gas/oil refineries, do not pass any Amendments that will drive them out of our State!
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Comment From: Marie Ravera

3/08/26 @ 2:02 PM
Please do not pass any Amendments that will drive, remove any refineries out of our State.
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Comment From: Anna Ramage

3/08/26 @ 2:01 PM
Asking you to not pass any Amendment that will drive our refineries out of our State.
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Comment From: Ronald Prisk

3/08/26 @ 2:00 PM
Do not pass any amendments that will drive refineries out of our State.
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Comment From: Debra Prisk

3/08/26 @ 1:59 PM
DO NOT PASS AMENDMENTS THAT WILL DRIVE REFINERIES OUT OF THE STATE, NOW OR EVER! ESPECIALLY WHEN GAS IS 6.00 A GALLON.
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Comment From: Dan Resciniti

3/08/26 @ 1:27 PM
I oppose all amendments to the California Cap on Greenhouse Gas blah blah blah. Gas prices in California are currently the highest in the nation and is essentially tax on the citizens that is oppressive. Refineries have left based on your regulations...↓
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Comment From: Damien Peters

3/08/26 @ 1:19 PM
Please stop wrecking the poor working class, we can't afford to Live in California with the cost of living being so much higher than other states, I am also to poor to move and I represent millions of voiceless poor people in CA
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Comment From: Kathleen DeMill

3/08/26 @ 1:01 PM
We can no afford anymore regulations. The price of energy is already crushing, and we need to find ways to lower prices, not increase them.
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Comment From: MICHAEL TABER

3/08/26 @ 12:33 PM
These policies you are trying to achieve are outside of reality and rational thinking. You have all been told this for years, we do not have the infrastructure to support you goals, and if you continue to push the companies out that are (were) suppor...↓
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Comment From: Edward Vera

3/08/26 @ 12:17 PM
Adding more tax and regulation burden on gasoline production is a terrible losing proposition for the state of California. It will increase costs for working families, seniors and businesses everywhere. Stop the nonsense and try to make things easi...↓
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Comment From: Bob Johnson

3/08/26 @ 12:06 PM
Once again you are taxing regular citizens just trying to get by to appease your Getty and Soros overlords.

Please do us all a favor and disband.
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Comment From: Jeff Kowalishen

3/08/26 @ 12:01 PM
Since your body is not voted into Office, I don't believe that you have the right or the ability to make any rules or laws that were required. Additional taxes placed upon businesses or taxpayers. Any rule that you think you can adopt that requires a...↓
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Comment From: Nadine Wright

3/08/26 @ 10:35 AM
Car culture in California is embedded in our souls. There are not enough public transit options to get around Los Angeles or other major destinations, and even if that were true, there are too many homeless & drug addicts that are a threat to civil s...↓
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