The “California Clean Car Discount Act” is the Orwellian name for a scheme by Democrat busybodies to influence what car you drive.

Say you buy a car that coughs out a lot of greenhouse gases. Should you pay more for the privilege of polluting?

And say your neighbor buys a car that spews out far less. Should he be rewarded for helping to save the planet?

I’d say no and no. But noooo…

This week, the California Assembly is expected to vote on the California Clean Car Discount Act, which, if passed, would be the nation’s first “feebate” law, imposing charges and granting rebates based on a vehicle’s emission of carbon dioxide and other gases.

One-time registration fees of up to $2,500 would be levied on new gas guzzlers, such as Hummers, Dodge Vipers and Chevy Tahoes. Some cleaner sport utility vehicles, pickups and minivans would be exempt from any charge, while the Toyota Prius, Honda Civic, Nissan Sentra and other fuel-efficient cars would get hefty rebates.

I don’t like Hummers, but if someone wants to buy one and pay $150 a week to gas it up (paying fat taxes to the state and feds while do so) then let them. But gouging them $2500 because it offends your faux religion of Global Warming? Go to hell.