You've heard of red light cameras and speed cameras. Now California is coming out with an emissions camera. The device will measure the emissions coming from the tailpipe of your car, take a photo of your license plate, and dispatch the local environmental gestapo to force you to fix your car.

The program, perhaps the largest of its kind, would measure vehicles entering freeways in the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside.

The sensors measure pollutants as vehicles accelerate and the cameras snap an image of the license plates.

But leave it to Californiastan to put a socialist spin on the crack down:

There's even an incentive to getting caught.

Owners of smoky clunkers would receive letters informing them that the government would help pay to fix or scrap the vehicles. Between 10,000 to 20,000 of the dirtiest vehicles would be spotted, according to the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

That makes perfect sense. After all this unfairly targets older cars, meaning the poor will be hardest hit.