Orange County Register

This is the way the government plays the game. First, they determine which kinds of cars the government prefers, such as the touted “hybrids.”

Then they use your tax money to subsidize the manufacture and purchase of that government-preferred kind of car, which gives their preferred cars an advantage in the market. They can be sold for less than they would be sold otherwise.

Next, the government extends special benefits to their preferred kinds of cars, such as those hybrids, by allowing them to use a freeway lane most people can’t use, but all people pay for, the touted carpool lanes.

Then, just when the government’s specially favored people driving their government specially favored cars are beginning to enjoy how special they are, the government changes its mind.

This item from the Los Angeles Times:

“The days may be numbered for hybrid car owners who have enjoyed traveling solo in California’s carpool lanes.

“The stickers granting that privilege to 85,000 hybrid owners are set to expire Jan. 1, 2011. There are proposals in Sacramento to extend the deadline, but they would exclude most of the vehicles that originally qualified for the program, such as the Toyota Prius, the Honda Civic hybrid and the original Honda Insight.”

Some of those specially favored government-preferred folks apparently are more equal than others.

The question is, why when we hand over authority to government to arbitrarily show favortism are we ever surprised to find out that government will use that authority and actually show favortism? How foolish is it to assume today’s equal animals will be tomorrow’s? Maybe General Electric should consider this, hm?

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