Comment Re: Wrong approach (Score 1) 77
The idea is that people will buy their way into the carpool lane and then when the car is four years old and has lots of usable life on it, it will be substantially less valuable as it can't go into the carpool lane without multiple people being in the car, encouraging people to dump zero emission cars for cheap making them affordable to lower income people.
When the clean air act was passed California had some of the worst air in the world much like places like India and Pakistan have today. Now Californians expect our air quality to be good or excellent most days.