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Arizona lawmakers are aiding a Tucson motorized-bicycle innovator by rewriting the law to differentiate between his reasonably priced contraptions and mopeds, the Tucson Weekly reports:

According to (Roland) Bosma, Spooky Tooth Cycles, which he co-founded, provides options to people who may not have the money to buy a car, but find it exhausting to manually bike around Tucson's sprawl in the summer heat. The "green" crowd also likes that the bicycles get 150 miles per gallon, polluting less and reducing dependence on The Man (i.e., oil companies), he said.

House Bill 2796, sponsored by Rep. Tom Prezelski, D-Tucson, unanimously passed the House on March 8 and is moving in the Senate.

But the Senate Transportation Committee attached an amendment that would allow cities and towns to regulate or ban the little motor-bikes.