[Peace-presence] [Fwd: [Peaceaction2008] Electric Vehicle Action Alert and Rally!]

Mon Mar 24 16:20:03 MST 2008

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Subject: 	[Peaceaction2008] Electric Vehicle Action Alert and Rally!
Date: 	Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:12:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: 	Bob Tregilus <lakeport104 at yahoo.com>
To: 	peaceaction2008 at renopeace.org

Hi EVeryone!

The following should be of interest to local anti-war groups - Electric 
Vehicles - No Gas - or War - Required!

If we want peace in 2008 we need to do more than simply protest the war!

There will be a rally in Sacramento this Wednesday to insist that the 
California Air Resources Board (CARB) does not cave to oil / auto 
industry pressures to further weaken the Zero Emissions Vehicle Mandate 
(ZEV).

More info from the Alternative Transportation Club and Electric Auto 
Association of Northern Nevada follows . . .

There will be no newsletter or meeting this month. The next meeting is 
Thursday, April 18, 2008 at 5:30 p.m. at the Northwest Reno Library (see 
website <http://www.electricnevada.org/> for details). Also, on Sunday, 
April 20, 2008 we will have a booth at the annual Earth Day celebration 
in Reno (details at the website <http://www.electricnevada.org/> as 
well). If you have an EV you wish to display at Earth Day please reply 
to this message or call me at 775 826-4514.

*ATTACHED BELOW IS AN URGENT ACTION ALERT from Plug-in America 
<http://www.pluginamerica.com/>.*

*Regardless of where you live, it is critical that you contact 
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California Air 
Resources Board (CARB).* The State of California ranks consistently 
among the ten largest economies in the world. With that kind of 
purchasing power they can - and do - dictate to manufacturers what they 
can and cannot sell in the state.

In short, California can tell the manufacturers to build electric 
vehicles, as they did in 1990. The Zero Emissions Mandate (ZEV) resulted 
in the development and marketing of the General Motors EV-1, Toyota Rav4 
EV, Ford Ranger EV, and others as well as the deployment of NiMH 
batteries into transportation applications. Later, however, under 
pressure from oil companies, vehicle manufacturers, and others, ZEV was 
greatly diluted and became more of an option or guideline to the 
manufacturers than a mandate.

*There is a real possibility that the ZEV program will be amended and 
dramatically strengthened by CARB on Thursday, March 27, 2008 -- /BUT 
THAT WILL BE UP TO YOU!/*/
/
Governor Schwarzenegger and CARB must /HEAR FROM YOU! /The only response 
to rich industry groups is an informed and activist public! Don't let 
the oil companies and auto manufactures tell you what to buy. /IT'S UP 
TO YOU TO TELL THEM/ what you will purchase! /NO PLUG, NO DEAL!/

/*Please act now, it only takes a minute or two to follow the links 
below and have your voice heard: If you don't act, who will? */

Thanks!

Be well,
Bob Tregilus
Chair -
Alternative Transportation Club &
Electric Auto Association of Northern Nevada
http://ElectricNevada.org
775 826-4514

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Plug In America

Action Gram
*March 21, 2008

Plug In America Needs Your Help. You Are Invited!

Plug in America Press Conference and Rally

Date:    Wednesday - March 26, 2008

Time:    10:30 a.m.

 Where:  California EPA Building
                 1001 I Street
                 Sacramento, Ca

Electric Car Drivers:  Bring Your EV!
*

*Dear Bob,*

We want zero emission electric cars on the road, and we want them NOW!  
Help PIA inspire Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and CARB Chair Mary 
Nichols to do the right thing by clicking here 
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2711/t/4015/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23561>.

And get ready for a rousing Rally and Press Conference near the 
California Air Resources Board (CARB) Headquarters at the corner of I 
and 10th Streets in Sacramento 
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=I+St+%26+10th+St,+Sacramento,+Sacramento,+California+95814,+United+States&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=50.51141,82.265625&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=0,38.581400,-121.492980&ll=38.581398,-121.49298&spn=0.00307,0.005021&t=h&z=18&iwloc=addr&output=html> 
on March 26th.

Now is your chance to join the action before CARB votes on a proposal 
that could keep zero emission electric cars out of consumers' hands for 
decades. Raise your voice at the March 26 rally alongside Plug in 
America, Tesla Motors, former CIA Director James Woolsey, Rainforest 
Action Network and others. Please join us at 10:30 a.m. and bring your 
friends.  No RSVP required.

Tell both the Governor and Chair Nichols to support production of 
electric vehicles - the automotive technology that could work NOW to 
help clean our air and cut CO2 emissions. Click here 
<http://www.pluginamerica.org/action.shtm> and don't forget to forward 
this message far and wide to family, friends, interest groups and social 
networks like MySpace.  If you can think of a way to spread the word, do it!

As gasoline prices lurch toward the $4.00 per gallon mark, let's all 
work together to hasten the day when we can dump the pump and start 
driving clean, efficient electric cars.

Hope to see you in Sacramento on the 26th!

Chelsea Sexton
Plug in America

Again, Click here 
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2711/t/4015/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23561> 
to send a message to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841
Fax: 916-558-3160 

Click here 
<http://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/comm/bcsubform.php?listname=zev2008&comm_period=A> 
to send a message to CARB Chair Mary Nichols.

Please check our website <http://pluginamerica.org/> often for campaign 
updates and send this Action Gram to everyone you know!   

Chelsea Sexton
Plug In America

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