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THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Adopted this Order on July 25, 1995 , by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Rogers, Smith, DeSaulnier, Torlakson and Bishop
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
SUBJECT: Correspondence
C.80 LETTER from Charles Peterson, 5th District Supervisor, County of Mendocino,
Ukiah, California, 95482, dated July 11, 1995, requesting Contra Costa County
Supervisors support electric car mandates to improve air quality.
**** REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
C.81 CLAIM from Greg Moser, Esq., Weissburg and Aronson, Inc., Attorneys at Law,
555 California Street, Suite 2400, San Francisco, California, 94104, dated July 17,
1995, on behalf of the Program BETA Risk Management Authority requesting refund
of property taxes paid in the 1993-1994 and 19944995 fiscal years.
**** REFERRED TO ASSESSOR, TAX COLLECTOR, AND COUNTY
COUNSEL
C.82 LETTER from Robert Fees, Chief Education/Single Audits Branch, Division of
Audits, Office of the Controller of the State of California, Post Office Box
942850, Sacramento, CA 94250, dated July 4, 1995, providing information on the
1993-1994 Fiscal Year single audit report.
**** REFERRED TO AUDITOR-CONTROLLER, AND COUNTY
ADMINISTRATOR
IT IS BY THE BOARD ORDERED that the recommendations as noted (***)
are APPROVED.
hereby certify that this is a true andcorrectcopy of
C.C. Correspondents an action takon and entered on the minutes of the
Transportation Committee Board of Sup ors on the date hown.
ATTESTED:
Treas,-Tax Collector PHIL BAH-
R Clarkof the Board
County Counsel Of Supervi ors and ou y Administrate
Auditor-Controller By ,Deputy
Assessor
1RECEIVED
JUL 1 31996 .
JOYCE A. BEARD Office Address:
CLERK OFTHE BOARD CLERK BOARD OF SUPERVISORS 301 South State Street
Ukiah,California 95482
CONTRA COSTA CO.
COUNTY OF MENDOCINO Mailing Address:
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Courthouse
UKIAH,CALIFORNIA 95482 Ukiah,California 95482
Telephone:
(707)463-4221
FAX:(707)463-4245
July II; 1995
Dear Board Chair and Supervisors,
I am writing to you as an individual supervisor. As an elected official you
have recently received material funded by the Western States Petroleum
Association attempting to discredit electric vehicles and the California Air
Resources Board.
American citizens have been asked to pay trillions of dollars in. health care
costs and hidden taxes over the past several years to protect oil company
profits.
* Increased health care costs related to poor air, quality in
American cities have been estimated at $95 billion per year.
* Internal combustion engines are 15% to 20% efficient and
have hundreds of moving parts. Electric motors are 85% to 97%
efficient and have one moving part. In order to continually
increase their profits, .oil companies must convince Americans
to spend over one third of our income on dirty, noisy, 1.5 ton
gas vehicles to move our 150 pound bodies around. The cost of
marketing this vestige of the industrial revolution is in the -
billions of dollars per year. It's time to look at clean, quiet
electric vehicles as a transition to a more rational
transportation system.
* The infrastructure costs of extracting, transporting, refining,
distributing and dispensing gasoline are staggering. On the
other hand, the charging of electric vehicles will require no
infrastructure cost, because standard 110V outlets are all that
is required. Off-peak (overnight) charging of electric vehicles
would just balance the utility company's load without any
increased costs in infrastructure.
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
SEIJI SUGAWARA FRANK McMICHAEL JOHN PINCHES LIZ HENRY CHARLES F.PETERSON
FIRST DISTRICT SECOND DISTRICT THIRD DISTRICT FOURTH DISTRICT FIFTH DISTRICT
* The cost of military defense of our global oil supply is
difficult to quantify precisely, but is obviously awe-inspiring.
It took 3 billion years of plant and animal growth and decay to create the
world's oil resource, and we have already more than half consumed this
precious resource in the last 70 years. Government figures suggest that we
will have exhausted it in another 40. Using this irreplaceable energy
source, capable of creating 3,000 degree temperatures, merely to transport
people will only be understood for the tragedy it is when we are faced
with the task of trying to find replacement fuel sources for the
manufacture of essential materials like glass, steel, concrete and metal
alloys.
The oil company materials you have received claim increased vehicle and
infrastructure costs of $20 billion over the next several years. What they
are doing is comparing the cost of prototype electric cars to the cost of
assembly-line gas cars. If the manufacture of electric vehicles is pushed to
the assembly-line they will be cheaper to produce than gas vehicles.
Corporations do not have a conscience. Their conscience has to be
legislated by elected officials. If it hadn't been for mandates, cars would
still be without seat belts or air bags, lead would still be in our gas, and
Californians wouldn't be getting the reformulated cleaner-burning fuel
they will get next year.
We are at a crossroads. We can wait until we run out of oil and our air is
fouled before we look for alternatives, or we can start now. As much
energy strikes the earth from the sun each and every day as is stored in
all the oil reserves of the world.
Please consider the future. Please contact your state legislators and the
California Air Resources Board. Please support electric car mandates as an
appropriate transition that should begin now.
Sincerely,
"J
Charles Peterson
5th District Supervisor