California limits hybrid rebates to households earning less than $500,000

Hundreds of Californians with household incomes of $500,000 or more have collected state subsidies for buying electric and hybrid cars under a program that is criticized as a taxpayer handout to the wealthy. State regulators, in response, are restricting the subsidies to Californians who earn less than $250,000 or couples taking in less than $500,000.

WSPA lies: Oil companies are at it again … and California is the target

All over California, people are receiving very expensive-looking full-color, multi-page mailers and being subjected to radio spots announcing something called the California Gas Restriction Act of 2015. These turn out to be part of a massive and highly dishonest oil company campaign denouncing one of the best and most exciting bills that has been considered by the California legislature in a decade.