CFCs were banned in 1996. They’re a problem for ozone depletion but don’t contribute much to surface-level air quality problems.

I’m looking for them right now in NYC and other major urban hubs where there’s no place to pull in and park for 30 minutes almost anywhere - except for parking garages who apparently don’t want to do this. I’ll keep you posted!

As I understand it anyway, diesel cars aren’t exactly popular in North America, and the VW scandal has probably stopped it ever changing, whereas here they’re the majority of vehicles. So yes, I’m pretty sure the chemistry is the same, but the conditions very much aren’t.

You’re a monster!

As another poster points out, it depends on the city. In Europe we promoted diesel vehicles and now particulates are a huge problem.

Reserve your spot via app? Like an opentable for charging? 

TL:DR, BECAUSE GOVERNMENT TELLING PEOPLE HOW TO MANAGE THEIR OWN BUSINESS.

The answer is to daily classic cars. If we stop buying new cars, there will be a heckuva lot fewer carbon emissions total. Sure, there might be more smog in a few places, but as a whole, there will be fewer. And a decrease in the number of grey jellybeans on the road would be nice.

Not really! Just means the station selling gas at $2.80 is still on an older ‘batch’ of gas that was bought at a different price. Now if this station is consistently higher, they might be making more per gallon of gas but that money may be needed to cover other areas of the business.

I think it would make more sense to electrify grocery stores, as that’s a common place for people to already park for at least 30min once a week or so.  Much cheaper than adding single chargers all over the place that would likely be highly under-utilized.

“Get out of your paid for vehicle and into an overpriced car subsidized by the U.S. government today!”

Reducing that is important, but this strikes me as another example of promoting consumer-level incentives over regulating large-scale polluters.

No to more taxes and I’m independent politically before everyone brings that mess into things. We can’t reverse climate change so who cares. I’ll drive a damn V8/10/12 untill you day I die and I’ll be damned if the government is going to tax me for enjoying my life more than they already do. This whole environmental…

“That meant that it became much harder for lower-income people to find affordable transportation”

Cash for clunkers did nothing but hurt the used car market. 

“The core problem of the program—and similar ones in other countries—is that environmental groups, experts and car enthusiasts generally agree that keeping an old car running is more environmentally friendly than scrapping it and getting a new one. This holds true even if the new one is significantly more efficient.”

No…

Cash for Clunkers was a success for what it was designed for.  It was to get people into new cars to bailout the auto industry.  It had nothing to do about environmental or affordable cars.

Schumer has been a NY state senator forever, yet the state has no incentives for EV tax credits. He’s all talk no action . . .

I don't like any plan to completely eradicate any particular power source.  They all have their place, and diversity in power generation is always a good thing.

Finally, I’d argue that this is a program designed more to look environmentally friendly than be environmentally friendly.