Here is a link to a GA state legislature passed law concerning Hybrid use of the HOV lanes with a single occupant.

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So what has to happen now seems to be that they are waiting on the Federal Gov't to take the next step. Isn't Cali already allowing Hybrid usage of the HOVs? Why does it seem like GA is waiting permission from the Feds?

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California may be deciding soon to eliminate the Hybrid in HOV.

http://suvs.autoblog.com/2006/01/30/...r-that-progra/

California's Department of Motor Vehicles says that consumer response to the government's issuance of exemption stickers for hybrid vehicles has been such a runaway success story that it may have to shut the green loophole as early as this March. The program, designed to encourage environmentally-aware motoring affords hybrid commuters the privilege of driving in designated High Occupancy Vehicle lanes (read: car pool) without passengers. But California officials say they've been administering about 200 such stickers a day, and once Caltrans issues 50,000 decals, it will reassess the program and its impact on HOV-lane congestion.

If the 90-day study reveals that HOV lanes are packed like sardines, it could call off the program altogether as soon as this summer.

[Source: MediaNewsGroup via Daily Democrat]

Does that mean hybrid drivers would have their HOV stickers revoked? If so, the ensuing riot will make for interesting TV viewing.

Or just let only hybrids use the lanes . . . Hybrid Only Vehicles . . . works for me!

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