SUVs speeding to the birds

Speeders to pay for police chases
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7482934.stm

SUV sales go to the birds:

Car Sales at 10-Year Low
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/07/02/business/02auto.inline2.ready.html

The carfree challenge
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=6649&volume_id=317&issue_id=385&volume_num=42&issue_num=40

And Proposition 10, which will appear on the November, 2008 California ballot. One San Francisco transportation activist is warning against supporting it:

Proposition 10, the greenwashing of elitist car dependence

"Prop 10 would authorize the state to issue $5 billion in bonds --
borrowing money from investors (and paying back with interest from
general fund revenues that pay for schools, health, public transit,
etc.) mostly to subsidize purchasers of high fuel economy and
alternative fuel vehicles (in payments from $2,000 to $50,000 per
car), $1 billion in incentives for research, development and
production of renewable energy technology (easily fundable through the
regular budget process); $550 million in incentives for research and
development of alternative fuel vehicle technology (also easily
fundable through the regular budget process); $250 million in
incentives for purchase of renewable energy technology (also easily
fundable through the regular budget process); $25 million for each of
eight cities to educate their public about these technologies ..., and $150 million to colleges to train students in these technologies.

"Borrowing from future revenues to subsidize private car purchases is
... greenwashing, [and] wrong-headed environmentalism ..."