This bothers me, too. I know people who could really use those cars. From Bill Dupray:
But one of the most asinine parts of the plan is that they take old cars, many of which were being used as functional day-to-day transportation the day before, and destroy them. A perfectly good and useful machine destroyed for political reasons.Click on link for video.
All these low-cost vehicles are removed from the market. So much for those who can only afford lower-priced cars. Let them ride bicycles.
Has anyone calculated the cost of all this waste to The Planet? We shouldn't assume that the environment comes out ahead when all is said and done. Tossing something means something else must be produced to replace it. And production means carbon.
h/t: Hot Air
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So, a car that gets less than 18 mpg is scrapped. Replaced by a car that gets 26mpg. This 26 mpg car has an engine made of iron, steel and aluminum that had to be melted, cast and machined. A frame made of steel, body panels of sheet steel. Door handles made of cast zinc, chromed. Lots of copper wire.
How many years must the new car run to show a "profit"?
Or, is the whole idea to make poor folks move from the country to the center cities?
I guess they don't care about the poor unless they are environmentally minded poor people.
The people themselves, if truth be told, are made of carbon. NTTAWWT.
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