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Old 06-26-2009, 05:49 PM   #1 (permalink)
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AP: Calif. To Pay Owners To Scrap High-Pollution Cars

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SACRAMENTO (AP) — California regulators have expanded a state car-scrapping program to provide incentives of as much as $4,000 to motorists who surrender high-polluting vehicles and replace them with cleaner cars.

California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols says the program approved Friday would help get some of the oldest, dirtiest cars, trucks and sports utility vehicles off state roads.

Unlike the federal "cash for clunkers" program signed into law Wednesday by President Barack Obama, California's effort is not primarily designed to replace gas guzzlers with more fuel-efficient vehicles.

Instead, the state will target those cars with the worst smog-forming tailpipe emissions -- pollutants that give areas of California some of the country's dirtiest air.
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For low income residents, this seems like a pretty sweet deal. Ditch an old polluting guzzler and grab a 2002 Civic/Corolla/etc for around a grand, maybe even free. The text is here, and it looks like all pre-1976 and diesel vehicles will be eligible, as well as specific post-1976 vehicles identified as gross polluters, provided the vehicle in question has been registered for most of the past two years.

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