California funds more rebates for plug-in cars, trucks and buses

[CHARGED EVs Mag]

The California Air Resources Board approved an additional $27 million for its Air Quality Improvement Program, which provides incentives to buy advanced-technology cars and trucks... Newswire >

[Ziv]

I realize that $27m is chump change when you have a $90Bn budget, but if that budget is underfunded by $16Bn, maybe this isn't the year for spending money even if it is a good cause...
Especially when the only plan to bridge the gap is predicated upon the California citizens voting yes on the spending when they have rejected other spending bills in the past. I think Brown is whistling past the grave yard on the budget, so CARB would be well served to visibly retrench a bit on spending. Besides the HOV stickers alone seem to be enough 'extra reason' to get people to buy great cars!

[DonC]

This is great news. FYI the funding for this doesn't come from the state budget. It comes from fines on what CARB calls "gross polluters", which are vehicles that are emitting excessive amounts of pollution. Whatever happens on taxes won't effect this program one way or the other.

[Ziv]

Don, I didn't know that, so thanks for the info!

This is great news. FYI the funding for this doesn't come from the state budget. It comes from fines on what CARB calls "gross polluters", which are vehicles that are emitting excessive amounts of pollution. Whatever happens on taxes won't effect this program one way or the other.

[EVPedaler]

This is great news. FYI the funding for this doesn't come from the state budget. It comes from fines on what CARB calls "gross polluters", which are vehicles that are emitting excessive amounts of pollution. Whatever happens on taxes won't effect this program one way or the other.

So does this implies that there are lots of "gross polluters"? I think removing one gross polluter is worth a lot more environmentally than buying one EV. Maybe better news would be they can't fund the EV rebates because they couldn't find and fine enough polluters.

[DonC]

So does this implies that there are lots of "gross polluters"? I think removing one gross polluter is worth a lot more environmentally than buying one EV. Maybe better news would be they can't fund the EV rebates because they couldn't find and fine enough polluters.

+1. Would definitely be better news. Unfortunately there are many more gross polluters than there are people fined for driving gross polluters.