December 30, 2004
Bollocks to your hybrid
Although hybrids are all cool, what with Hyperion offering its employees a cash incentive to purchase 'em, you still cannot drive a hybrid in the high-occupancy vehicle lane, which is good news in my book.
The HOV lanes should encourage congestion reduction and emission reduction, not only the latter. Why choose? Legislate in favour of both. And offering employees an incentive to get another car encourages more short-term thinking: provide shuttles for the employees, provide incentives to cycle or walk to work, give them bus passes, but don't encourage more consumption of new vehicles.
