*growing distrust of anything that I can’t fix with a welder intensifies*

I wouldn’t be surprised. Tax things you don’t like out of existence, it’s the same plan some places are taking with guns (Tacoma is looking at a law right now).

That’s kinda the way things have worked around here since.....pretty much always.

The US Federal Government, in cooperation with the Federal Reserve, is pleased to announce another round of corporate lottery winners, cherry picked from the biggest donor list of friends whose companies need no welfare but dammit they’ll get it anyway, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars each!

Do the math. There are 153,000,000 working age people that actually work. If the plan is going to cost $454,000,000,000  (government money comes from tax-payers)...those working people are going to have to shell out roughly $3,000 to get a $3,000 rebate.  God that is a wonderful plan.

1st Gear: Great idea! We’ve got lots of money in the treasury.

Neutral: When you consider the environmental impact of manufacturing the original ICE car, scrapping a perfectly good running OBD2 car, and then manufacturing another car to replace it, this program has nothing to do with “saving the environment”.

1st gear: This isn’t helping the problem. Taking reliable vehicles off the road and building new ones to replace them that are powered by coal and natural gas isn’t exactly a step forward.

1st Gear: If this sounds like the whole Cash for Clunkers program to you—you’re not wrong.

please don’t come to canada in the winter with that amount of car control 

Ford Mustang—the car that democratized V8 power in the U.S

I have to assume those wheels paired with some budget tires and mated to a Ford Mustang, were contributing factors to this crash.

100%. Unreasonable laws deserve no respect.

And I just bought a Hellcat....6mpg..love every second of it

Carbon credit schemes are about 1) fleecing rubes (the folks selling the carbon credits) and 2) virtue signaling while not changing their environmental-sinning ways (the folks buying carbon credits).

It’s so bloody annoying...I stopped reading the article after a couple paragraphs full of environmental bullshit.

Came for neat pictures, got stuck with another tired take on wealth politics.  Aren’t there other Kinja sites for this nonsense?

They might as well just write in there that the standards have nothing to do with emissions. They want the car banned. They don’t care what is coming out the tailpipe.

Seeing as how Edison is still looked upon fondly and has revisionists who defend him to this day to the point that they edit his Wikipedia article I highly doubt that.

Congratulations on finding a 2016 New York Times article which has been discussed here by your predecessors!