Calif. Plan for Emissions Stickers ‘Government Overreach’

"California has the highest [gas] taxes at 75 cents a gallon and the second-highest overall cost of gas," Gainor noted.

The point of the stickers would be to inform new car buyers of a car's emissions impact in the name of making consumers more 'educated', according to Tom Cackette of the California Air Resources Board.

"People can find this information in Consumer Reports; they can find it on the Web. The government doesn't need to get involved. If the media would put two-and-two together and connect $4 a gallon gas prices with something like massive government overreach and huge regulation, maybe people would begin to learn,"...

[this 'rating' is a prelude to sin taxes based on it]

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