[Got the Bug]

Steve,

My guess is that majority of people who register their SPCN vehicles in CA are fairly honest about documenting the costs associated with their build and paying their fare share of sales tax. Even if people are cheating left and right, it's hard to put a solid number on the lost revenue and I know that the State won't launch a new program or build the infrastructure unless they're 100% sure they can pay for it.

SB 100 is far from perfect, but it's all we've got right now. The State of CA isn't motiviated to increase the number of SB 100 certs. You could increase the total number of SB 100 certs to 5,000 and charge people $2,000 (which people would pay), but I think it would be tough to find a legislator who is interested in taking up the cause.

As others have suggested, SEMA might be the best bet to lobby and move some sort of reasonable legislation along. My opinion is that we won't see many changes. The State of CA (wrong headed politicians and mis-informed enviromentalists) just flat out doesn't want these cars on the road and will continue to limit the number of cars that can be legally registered.