But that's okay with the Greenies; they're creating Obamamobiles that no one will want or buy, and they will be GREEN non-polluters, inventories for as far as the eye can see, and keeping Unions working (at Taxpayer expense, of course).
Posted on 08/10/2009 4:59:20 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON (AP) - General Motors has quit working with a partnership that collects toxic parts from scrapped automobiles, jeopardizing an effort to prevent mercury pollution just as hundreds of thousands of clunkers are headed to recyclers. Participants in the environmental program told The Associated Press the timing of GM's departure could hurt their work. The government's "cash-for-clunkers" program will lead to trade-in and recycling of an estimated 750,000 vehicles, some of which contain mercury switches.
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The list, ping
Must have figured out how much that was gonna cost them!
Mercury switches.....LOL! If you want to see mercury switches, tale a look at that old thermostat hanging on the wall. These people are pathetic.
Yeah, those mercury switches are the bane of mankind.
No way does the Democrats allow GM to pull out... I bet this decision will be reversed soon... and THAT my friend is the definition of fascism... government control over the private sector.
Does anyone remember those little maze toys with the mercury balls that you had to deftly manipulate to get to the end?
They were imported (from Japan, I think) and were very popular in the late 50’s and early 60’s when I was a kid. We used to take them apart and play with the mercury blobs in our bare hands.
I doan kno what the problm with mercury iz.
To muck regulzt govmin shee...............................
There was also a report that the bankruptcy process allowed GM to walk away from toxic sites, dumping the cleanup expenses on local/state govts.
GM is dead isn’t it?
The corpse still has a ways to fall I guess
Breaking news for the Enviro-Marxists: Poor people/companies/nations don’t care about the environment. Survival always takes precedence over “causes”. Mother Earth is going to take a beating as the US economy implodes.
We used it to shine up dimes. Ever hear of mercury dimes? Uh.... guess it got to me too.
But that's okay with the Greenies; they're creating Obamamobiles that no one will want or buy, and they will be GREEN non-polluters, inventories for as far as the eye can see, and keeping Unions working (at Taxpayer expense, of course).
And if you want to see a REAL mercury ecological disaster in the making, look at all those CFL lightbulbs the ignorant ecohobbits are trying to force us to use instead of normal incandescent lightbulbs: http://www.npr.org/templates/text/s.php?sId=7431198&m=1 (Yes, even the morons at NPR have noticed, but the story is generally buried under the “green” mantra that incandescent bulbs are “evil.”)
GM is dead isn’t it?
Like all good dems, DEAD GM still voting DEM.
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