A program encouraging people to retire their older vehicles is expected to start up again later this month.
The board of directors for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District approved $8.4 million in state funds Wednesday for the Clean Cars for All program, which provides grants to encourage Bay Area residents to turn in their old vehicles for greener transit options.
The program seeks to reduce pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions throughout the Bay Area, while simultaneously working toward the goal of equitable access to electric vehicles and clean transportation, Jack Broadbent, executive director of the air district, wrote in a memo to the board ahead of Wednesday’s meeting.
The $8.4 million allocation from the California Air Resources Board will allow the district to reopen the program and accept applications.
Since April 2019, it has provided grants up to $9,500 for low-income residents to retire older, high- polluting cars and replace them with a newer, cleaner vehicle or with mobility options like a transit card or e-bike.
The program focuses on disadvantaged communities, which limited program eligibility to 76 ZIP codes in the Bay Area.
Residents who qualify can get grants up to $9,500 to buy or lease a new or used plug-in, electric or fuel cell vehicle or get up to $7,500 to collect a pre-paid card for public transit or e-bikes.
Residents enrolled in low-income programs like CalFresh or CalWORKS could receive an additional $500.
In order to receive any of the grants, residents must first submit an application and get a pre-inspection done on their old car by an authorized dismantler. If approved, the resident then signs the terms and conditions and receives the award letter.
Once they use the money to lease or buy a new car or collect their prepaid card for other mobility options, they then turn in their old vehicle to be dismantled.
As of early August, the air district spent $16.73 million in grants to more than 1,920 applicants in the Bay Area since the program’s inception.
The air district anticipates with this new round of funding it will distribute 800-900 grants.
However, the air district will not use all of the $8.4 million in grants. Broadbent’s memo outlines that up to 15 percent can be used by the air district to administer the program — 10 percent to support air district staff costs to manage applications and cases and the remaining 5 percent can be contracted out for resident outreach.
Residents interested in the Clean Cars for All program can learn more or sign up for the email list for updates at https://www.baaqmd.gov/funding-and-incentives/residents/clean-cars-for-all.
But my old high-polluting car is worth at least twice the $9,500 they’re offering and I never have to smog test it. $9,500 is an insult, makes me want to throw in a higher lift cam and drop my rear end ratio to 4.10. I intend to burn up all the dead dinosaurs I can before I’m dead and gone. Mopar or no car!
As a Mopar owner, I salute you.
Personally, I’d recommend a 4.88 locker with some wide R888R’s, porting the heads, bumping the compression ratio up significantly (you could have the heads shaved while they’re off being ported), switching to E85 (new fuel delivery system, yep), and throwing on an 850 demon. I assuming you already have 3″ dual exhaust. If that doesn’t do it, throw a 150 shot on it, and call it a day.
And lastly – it’s crucial to do a good rip right in front of a Preeis, so they can share in your love of “green” fuel…
But NEVER, race a blown white C6…
Why stop there? Bump up the compression and run leaded race fuel!
As these “make it look good as opposed to doing good” policies get worse there will still be other options. People wanting to maintain automobile history by enjoying classics will simply convert them to run on methanol. It’s not difficult.
$9,500 will barely cover the tax and license fee. Then there’s the cost of full coverage insurance that most low income residents can’t afford.
There goes money for a desalination plant. Your tax dollars at work.
Think I’ll go take the Bullitt for a spin…
Perfect timing. Right when the cost of used cars has skyrocketed, let’s reduce the supply of used cars some more! That will help low income people! Because they don’t care about the cost of buying a used car… wait, what?
Only 94565 is eligible in Concord.
94565 is Pittsburg
our tax dollars wasted so narcissists can drive around and feel superior to everyone else…
what does California do best, create self absorbed narcissists
#RecallGavinNewsom
Bay Area Air Quality Management District sent me a letter about 5 years ago suggesting I retire my old truck. No mention of a payment of any kind. Just that I should do it for the good of the environment. My truck passes SMOG with flying colors and runs like a champ. It’s 34 years-old and I’m keeping it until it gives up the ghost.
You know who is not turning in these trucks? Mexican gardeners. Every few month my gardener and other gardeners ask if I want to sell it. Not happening.
Here we go take from the middle class and give it to the poor this is really getting sickening.The Democrats have to go.And don’t start in oh it’s not the Democrats.
Would have hoped that they’d have learned from cash for clunkers. Guess not.
the democrats did learn from cash for clunkers, they stole so much from tax payers they are doing it again…
next cash for caulkers part 2
When engine goes on any of my Large, Full Size, mid 1990s vehicles,
they’re going to dealership to have another 5.7L LT1 V8 engine put in.
Smooth ride, responsive power, comfort and room you don’t find these days.
An what the heck good does CA having electric vehicles do for us,
if California Burns, EVERY, friggin’, summer ? ? ? ?
Is estimated there are, going into 2021 fire season 147 million dead trees just in Sierra Nevada mountains.
October 27, 2019 ‘‘I Own This’: Gov. Newsom On California’s Wildfire Emergency, PG&E Power Shutoffs And More ‘
cap radio https://tinyurl.com/b9ya56m5
2019
” “Everybody has had enough,” the governor said, announcing he’d signed a sweeping executive order overhauling the state’s approach to wildfire prevention. Climate change was sparking fires more frequent, ferocious and far-reaching than ever before, Newsom said, and confronting them would have to become a year-round effort.
The state’s response, Newsom added, “fundamentally has to change.”
But two-and-a-half years later, as California approaches what could be the worst wildfire season on record, it does so with little evidence of the year-round attention Newsom promised.”
LAist https://tinyurl.com/jwfxakcv
Responsible forestry and wild land management looks like this, without DEM governmental restrains and interference.
“Experts: Managing tribal forest helped stop Wallow Fire at reservation”
Cronkite News https://tinyurl.com/mhajxp7b
Take a look at second PIC in story, satellite view of fires and imagine if wind changes to out of the north.
https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/08/05/river-fire-burns-thousands-of-acres-near-colfax-calif/
“California’s 2020 wildfire season thwarted the state’s fight against climate change, spewing enough carbon dioxide into the air to equal the emissions of millions of passenger vehicles driving over the course of a year.
Those roughly 9,600 fires burned nearly 4.2 million acres, killed 31 people, and emitted an estimated 112 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, according to a California Air Resources Board report released Dec. 31. The number is akin to the greenhouse gas emissions of 24.2 million passenger cars driving in a single year”
bloomberg https://tinyurl.com/46hyarr4
Exactly. I will run the Chevy v8 in every car I drive until I die. When the ones I have burn up, I’ll replace them or rebuild them. And when fuel becomes to costly, I will make my own. These tyrants think EVERYONE is helpless. Little do they know some of us still know how to do things for OURSELVES.
Yahoo….almost $10k for my Ford Pinto sitting in the backyard!!!
has anyone else noticed that some cities are no longer allowing gas stations to be built?
“I feel good about myself when I spend other people’s money!” Almost every politician thinks this.
I’am convinced that every stupid giveaway by politicians means a payoff somewhere down the line for them. Why else would the city councils of Walnut Creek or Concord come up with approving these massive home building projects when the know we are already crowded. Are they just stupid or do they get a kickback?
No mention of two-cycle engines putting out more pollution than an older car. Or fireplaces putting out needless pollution. The Air Board is just a useless bunch of politicians grabbing headlines and shaking people down
How many cars with their gasoline engines running would it take to equal the air pollution caused by California’s current wildfires?