Watch a used hybrid sale is like watching those crazy “Brides to Be” fight over Wedding Dresses at the year-end sale. Why all the drama for a used Civic Hybrid? Well it’s that Little Yellow CARB Sticker that causes people to go completely insane!
Life is good when you’re flying by those peons stuck in Southern California traffic! Want to become the envy of working-class drones everywhere? Well it is pretty impossible these days unless you have connections. I mean, only 60k of these stickers were passed out by the lovely California gov. Now they are all kaput!
There are only 2 ways to get a car pool lane sticker.
- Contact your local shady guy. He will go on the black market and buy one. Then sell it to you at double the agreed upon price.
- Buy a car with a little yellow car pool sticker on it already.
So really, do you want a Civic or a Prius; because that’s your only choices. Actually you can get an Old Skool Insight. Good Luck! Or you could buy a car that runs on Compressed Natural Gas or GNG. But those exploded every 10k miles.
So bite the bullet, knock a few “Brides to Be” out, then buy a Honda Certified Hybrid.
A town like Los Angeles has the traffic as emotionally painful as waterboarding. So do yourself a favor and grab a hybrid.