California has over 30 million cars. No, not on the road all at once, thank Buddha.

California was raised on getting that oil out of the ground and into cars.

Our Senior Drivers may not drive that much anymore, but they are actually a very large part of the government revenue pie.

And the State of California will do everything it can to protect its right to collect money from our Seniors in the most greedy of ways.

Our local officials will bend over backwards to help auto dealerships sell cars.

Politicians love the smell of new car sales tax revenue. New vehicle sales account for 20% of sales taxes.

Do you see any conflict of interest there? Considering all the problems facing us from overuse of vehicles?

The following story has a few examples of our local governments doing their part to get vehicle sales up.

Missing Post from LA Times Climate Change Blog.

The following had been on LA Times before the Times shut down the comments.