California's Landmark Clean Car Mandate: How It Works And What It Means

InsideClimate News:

If all goes as planned, more than a million ultra-clean cars will be zipping around California in the next decade, a 30-fold increase from today, thanks to tough new rules recently approved by state regulators.

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[zvibenyosef2030]

02:46 PM on 02/09/2012

The Japanese, Germans, Koreans and Chinese are busily perfecting this technology, and creating hybrid or electric powered economy cars, and full sized sedans and suv's. If the US auto industry does not compete, they will be left in the dust, and filing for bankruptcy again. This is for their own good. They successfully fought every effort by previous administrations to force them to develop green technologies, and they paid the price.

[trumphent]

10:57 AM on 02/09/2012

Most people cannot begin to imagine what it would be like without pollution control laws. I can only vaguely perceive it. Go to a classic car show. Get up close to those that are running. It will make your eyes water. Now, imagine every vehicle on the road today producing that level of pollution. I, also can't imagine sitting in stop and go traffic, commuting to work and not wanting an electric car.

[DeanWormer]

09:41 PM on 02/08/2012

They already tried this once. Dealers had to bring in a bunch of golf carts and sell them below cost because hardly anyone wanted the electric cars.

[Kenz300]

05:29 PM on 02/08/2012

It is time to end the oil monopoly on transportation fuels. Bring on the electric, flex-fuel, hybrid, CNG, LNG and hydrogen fueled vehicles. The price of oil keeps rising. We need alternatives to oil fueled vehicles.

[enstncls]

02:58 PM on 02/08/2012

Who cares? by then, California will be part of Mexico. At least the Southern part.
It is the only State that the population growth comes strictly from foreigners, mostly Mexican and other Hispanics.