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Offline SZonian

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It's not easy being green.

A measure passed by California’s state legislature last year is causing a bit of road rage, as more than 200,000 low- and zero-emission vehicles are set to lose their decals that allow them to drive in the car-pool lane without another passenger.

The decal program, which the state started back in 2012, was meant to boost the number of clean-air vehicles in California. Instead, it has congested the HOV lanes, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Beginning Jan. 1, 2019, drivers who received the white and green clean-air stickers before 2017 will have to purchase a new vehicle to qualify. Drivers could obtain the decals if they buy a used car that did not previously have one and would have qualified under the previous program’s requirements, the paper reported.

A new income threshold will also eliminate certain drivers from participating in the program.

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/18/california-angers-some-zero-emission-drivers-by-taking-away-decals-that-allow-them-to-use-carpool-lane.html

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Sorry, but schadenfreude.  What right-minded person didn't see this coming?  CA turning on the people who were gullible enough to purchase these so-called "green" vehicles to gain a perk and feel smug at the same time...what a surprise.  Not.
Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.

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Another wonderful example of useful idiots thinking the the Alligator will eat them last.
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...Obsta principiis—Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon [the] American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour." - John Adams, February 6, 1775