Would It Be A Good Idea For Standard Licence Plates to Indicte It's a Hybrid or alternate fuel vehicle?

After all, plates indicate if it's a truck, farm vehicle, car dealer....

I can see pros and cons....

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Georgia has a alternative fuel plate.

Vanity plates are expensive and don't really add any value. They are cute right up until you have to pay for it. Bumper stickers are more affordable and easily changed.

Bob Wilson

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Clarification: there you be no extra charge - just an identification it's a hybrid or alt. fuel vehicle.

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If you're suggesting something along the lines of the "support higher education" or "Square Dancer" plates, in Alabama, they also have a nucense charge. So I ask, what am I getting for this identification and the answers seem a bit thin.

Make the case for the plate as something other than vanity, I'm with you. For example, the extra charge would be used to say . . . let the air out of Hummer tires. Ok, I'd pay a vanity plate charge for that. But otherwise, it just doesn't sound like it brings any value.

Seriously, if the vanity plate charge were dedicated to some traffic or efficiency improvement program, I would seriously consider it. But just to have some lettering on my car? . . . Bumper stickers are cheaper and more flexible.

Bob Wilson

Operation Iraqi Oil Freedom:

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My other 1500 cc car:

Automatic, stock, backup car.
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Why not? People byvanity plates on just about every other topic!

Here in Texas, most of the novelty plates as you call them actually have the majority of the costs sent to the appropriate interest group, eg. "Keep Texas Wild" plates send $22 of the $30 annual fee (in addition to normal registration) to wildlife diversity funding while "Texas Parks & Wildlife" plates send $22 of the $30 to the Texas State Parks' fund.

- Shannon (Geeky, Wild Texan)

The one in Georgia has a $25 fee, and that's what gets you into the HOV lanes. The page I found it on doesn't exist anymore.

Hope in a decade hybrids are the rule - not the exception.

My thinking is it would be easier for state and local governments to identify vehicles eligible for credits as well as to promote hybrids. Some here complain that some hybrids are hard to tell from the conventional version (i.e. Civic)

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I don't think it will promote hybrids, just take the focus off their usefulness and place it on attitude. Nonhybrid drivers will look on them as vanity plates and the owners as snotty. The HOV lane identification makes sense. Hybrids will become popular only when price is close to nonhybrids, gas prices hurt for a sustained period of time, and people are convinced that the cost of ownership/resale (see bad press about the batteries) is not high. Give a 10 year/100,000 bumper to bumper warranty and demand will soar (look what it did for Kia sales).