Owe-Bama's "Cash for Clunkers" took a lot of affordable cars out of the market for working poor, and cost taxpayers $45,000 for each $4,500 distributed. What a shit deal for taxpayers.
Cash for clunkers was to keep the UAW working.
Reduced the supply of used cars and drove people to new cars. Plus with all the channel stuffing, the net result was the unions kept on cranking out new cars. Also helped to keep the union money flowing to the dimrats.
Definitely.
Pouring silica into a running engine to destroy a valuable resource? WTF?
I work in OE and Aftermarket automotive and nobody could believe it.