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Originally Posted by cobra de capell
Video: The (Vaguely Disturbing) Death of a Clunker
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2304-DC-Republican-Examiner~y2009m8d1-Video-The-Vaguely-Disturbing-Death-of-a-Clunker
The Cash for Clunkers program is stupid for a lot of reasons. Not only is it just another tax-payer bailout of the unions automakers, who can sell more cars at artificially depressed prices so they can keep the doors open. It also screws with the free-market (big surprise there) by pulling forward demand that isn't there now, only to kill demand over the next 1-2 years. Killing off the clunkers also hurts the used car market, the spare parts market, and the auto repair business. If there aren't any old cars to buy or fix, those guys are all out of a job.
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“Unintended” consequence? No cheap cars for poor people, high schoolers, or college students. One of the most vulgar displays of shameless wastefulness I have ever seen. |
That video and the others linked to it were more than vaguely disturbing. There is a Darwin award waiting out there. Plus how long does the new, better mileage car have to run until it equals the pollutions produced in that idiotic engine 'disabling?" And that Volvo would likely be a sellable used car that would take a mosquito fogging real clunker off the road.
Actual reliable used cars with tolerable gas mileage taken to the crusher while rolling wrecks leaking as much fuel and
oil as they burn will, by necessity of the poor, REMAIN on the road with bad brakes, lights, disabled safety and pollution gear. Worn shocks and suspension parts. Citroen C2's will look like "safe" cars.