The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has come to the conclusion that the Gypsy cab companies like Uber and Lyft are dysproportionally responsivle for greenhouse gas emissions in the state, and so they are looking to pass a rule mandating electric vehicle adoptions by those companies.

Uber and Lyft want public subsidies to follow the law.

The response of California should be to tell them to go Cheney themselves:

California clean-air regulators want nearly all trips on Uber and Lyft ride-hailing platforms to be in electric vehicles, mandating costly measures that the companies call unrealistic without more public subsidies for EVs.

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And yet the firms are pushing back on the CARB effort to force the transition, arguing taxpayers should shoulder much of the burden.

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Uber and Lyft say they can’t afford the EV transition either. Uber said in a December letter to CARB that, without “sufficient” subsidies, the rule would unduly burden the companies, along with their drivers and consumers.

Uber and Lyft have already proved that they are an enemy of good government (Proposition 22), let them pay their own way.