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When the idea was first circulated about a special registration
fee for people who drive hybrid cars, it seemed like some
politician’s attempt at a bad joke.  Vermont and the world face
a growing issue with climate change that is fueled, in part, by
our love of burning fossil fuels in our cars. To get people to
use less fuel we embark on expensive and expansive campaigns to
encourage people to carpool, take public transportation, walk,
ride their bikes, buy smaller cars and buy cars that get better
fuel mileage.  That seems easy enough to understand. With the
advent of good reliable hybrid cars, the federal government
instituted very