The Bay Area Air District is hoping an incentive of up to $12,000 can persuade residents to ditch their older cars in favor of cleaner air vehicles. The Clean Cars for All program will help eligible residents replace older vehicles with new or used electric, plug-in hybrid or fuel-cell electric vehicles, or zero-emission motorcycles through spring 2026. The program, funded by $10 million from state and local sources, aims to reduce financial barriers to driving zero-emission vehicles. “A clean transportation future can only be achieved if it is affordable and accessible to everyone,” said Dr. Philip Fine, executive officer of the Air District. The highest incentives will be available for participants in disadvantaged community census tracts, the air district said.
Participants may also receive funding for EV charging, including home charger installation, a portable charger, or a public EV charge card. Those who purchase a qualifying vehicle may also be eligible for up to $5,000 towards adaptive equipment for accessibility needs, according to the district. The program was launched in March 2019 and has received over $86 million in total funding to make clean vehicles affordable across the Bay Area. More information about the program is available at https://www.baaqmd.gov/en/funding-and-incentives/residents/clean-cars-for-all/program-overview .
BAAQMD needs a visit from DOGE.
What’s needed is democrats voted out of all levels of government in California.
What a disgusting waste of our tax dollars.
Tommy explains it all (what the eco-nuts won’t tell you).
I think he uses a naughty word or two… but it was ok for TV…fair warning.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbZwxEnAFc
Read the room. There’s so many videos online about the Horrible quality of new cars (wet belts, failed transmissions, blown head gaskets, spun bearings etc etc). Couple that with some car manufacturers wanting you to pay a monthly subscription fee for heated seats or remote start. People today are paying the same amount that many of us pay for a mortgage…….for a car! Ridiculous.
Did Phil Fine say that while his drawers were unzipped as he was relieving himself while facing the headwinds off the ocean, as a symbol of what he is doing to we taxpayers’ money? Up to $12K per, of course, for “disadvantaged” communities. Maybe somebody should tell this guy that the EV euphoria is waning. Something to be said about needing $5K just to get adaptive equipment.
Of note:
Fine was appointed to replace last director (Broadbent), who was making ~$390K. Oddly enough, I could not find his name on Transparent California. Comes from biden’s EPA, so we know he knows how to waste exorbitant amounts of (taxpayer) money on a dimwitted ideology. All nice when the state has, get this,
a $12,000,000,000-$20,000,000,000 (that’s billion) deficit, and a $520,000,000,000 (that is half a trillion) debt, and having just thrown $750,000,000 “emergency” funding at BART just on Thursday. Am I the only one who questions how telling a “disadvantaged” member of a community to sell his 2002 Toyota Corolla, buy a $30,000 gokart so he can get $12000 from we taxpayers is a sound idea? Gotta love him, how easily he can be generous, acting like his money doesn’t matter.
None of my vehicles are younger than 25 years, pollute far less than these paper-thin robot kites they sell these days. AND have saved many lives in the performance of their duty.
Retaining mid 1990 SS and 1970 Tempest LeMans both worth over twice
what they’re offering. When an engine needs it, rebuild and reinstall.
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Grandsons already decided which vehicle they get when bucket is kicked.
Will they take EVs? Get them off the road before the fire.
bribery only works on the stupid,then they have a junky car a year later
So what if you have a new car but an old car that meets those guidelines – do you still get the rebate?
These delusional politicos don’t seem to know that money doesn’t grow on trees. And instead our federal government giving our tax dollars to other countries it should be spent here and help our own citizens out. The “great fiasco” wrecked many people’s lives and finances. People unfortunately don’t know history well enough to see what was being pulled on us.
Not to mention the fact that an agency in charge of managing the air is pretty much a sham, given the obvious and blatant spraying operations overhead.
Why in this world would I want to use my tax dollars to buy my neighbor a new car that I can’t afford or want.
More Democrats throwing away our money.
Also Newsom Prop 50 is costing us 300 million dollars.
Am in no way advocating involvement in stock market,
example used, is only as an illustration of buyer’s preferences.
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Stock price of an online used car company, was $4.00 on
02/18/22, investing $5,000 at that price you’d have gotten
1,234 shares.
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Selling those shares at this year’s high price of $413.34,
would have yielded a returned of $510,679
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So ya, looks like Americans, do prefer used cars and a painless
transaction process. As WISE person once said. “Read the room”
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To me a better use of $10 million in buy back money would
be to use it towards increasing wild land fire fighting capabilities.
State’s measurable air quality improvement would be far superior
over buying used cars. Impaired liberal thought processes ? ? ? ?
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Year . Acres burned
2021 2,569,386
2022 331,358
2023 332,822
2024 1,077,711
2025 517,847 so far
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“Record-breaking wildfires released twice the amount of emissions
that California cut between 2003 and 2019…”
Scientific American https://tinyurl.com/wwvspcn6
Link doesn’t work but found it on their website anyway… income limits apply – as usual practically if anything over minimum wage you won’t qualify 🙁
I like that at any opportunity to sound off on anything
that might make the air they and their loved ones
breathe a little cleaner, it’s like a dog whistle and
they start howling. Even funnier, they think it
was their idea.
Irony, you cold bastid. 😝
OK…. they can have my1969 muscle car for $50K (firm)
BAAQMD is a perfect example of feckless and worthless democrat government waste of taxpayers money.
buzz off!