'Cash for Clunkers' Actually Hurt the Environment

via sda

The small business Angel of Death:

According to one Department of Motor Vehicles source, 122 Virginia dealers did not renew their licenses the year after "Cash for Clunkers" debuted.

Much more here on the environmental debacle of shredding perfectly good vehicles. Don't miss the comments.


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The truth....


Cash for Clunkers had NOTHING to do with the environment. I was about making a debt payment in steel in a point in time when the US dollar was losing value rapidly an not trusted.

The steel was recycled in sunny Regina Saskatchewan using green hydroelectricity and then rolled into sheet to make pipe. Pipe for the XL line which is stockpiled along route in the US ready to go into service.

I always find it interesting when people get talked into trying to buy a better environment. Selling a perfectly good, less fuel efficient vehicle, just to buy a newer, more fuel efficient model, doesn't help the enviro (it puts more pressure on manufacturing, manufacturing and environment are not friends), it doesn't help your pocket book (your gas savings won't make up the cost). All it does is lubricate the economy. And apparently not even that!

It's one thing to take advantage of these things when you HAVE to. quite another the way it's crept into our social psyche.

Big 3 gotta sucker you in somehow.... Government's a partner (with two of 'em anyhow)