Completely and utterly ridiculous.
vehicular euthanasia
What a waste. My family could use that Volvo.
Nicely done.
“...but there seems to be something unsettling about this state sanctioned ‘autocide.’”
It’s a trial balloon for Socialized Medicine when they will stuff the old, the non-tax-revenue producer, the infirm, the mentally ill, the disabled and unwanted newborns in the car trunks before they compact them.
Think I’m kidding? ;)
Reminds me of something out of a sci-fi movie...this is just disturbing!!!
Honestly, we’re not losing much by getting mid-’80s American cars off the road. There aren’t many vehicles from that time that are at all interesting, and most of the ones that are get such good mileage that you’d be hard-pressed to find something that you could trade it on e.g. Honda Civic Si, Porsche 944, CRX, etc.
That’s just wrong. Pretty nice ‘clunker’ /s.
It’s just an engine...but to destroy a car with only 90,000 miles to receive tax payer money for a cracker box and to satisfy a radical Socialist president is stupid. I drive my trucks well over 200,000 miles then sell them as work trucks for around $2500. My 88 Chevy Sliverado I sold in 93 is still on a farm in Comanche Texas hauling hay.
FEW of the so called green and environmentalist arguments for more fuel efficient cars take into consideration the pollution generated through the manufacturing of the car, where energy inputs are enormous (Think of what sort of energy is required to liquefy and cast an aluminum engine block). Few take into consideration the added pollution in logistics and disposal of these vehicles.
We are in essence incentivising “buy use and throw away” and are calling it environmental. Long gone are the days where people looked for a machine that should last, today we buy battery powered Prius’s that are near disposable after a very finite life expectancy and loaded down with 450 pounds of batteries that are highly polluting once needed recycled. And it's all done so we can be “green.”
What’s most disturbing about this is the way it parallels the process the Nazis used to indoctrinate soldiers by slowly removing their inhibitions to destruction. Do you think that the guys destroying these cars across the nation now won’t soon be visiting our neighborhoods?
"Ol' 55"
- T. Waits
Long may you run.
Long may you run.
Although these changes have come
With your chrome heart shining in the sun
Long may you run.
"Long May You Run"
- N. Young
I swear I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.
"Growin' Up"
- B. Springsteen
Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'
E. A. Poe
Classic obama/Pelosi: provide incentives for massive waste ... and send the bill to our children. They should be ashamed of themselves again.
What blows me away is why someone would let a car like that go for 4500$?! It was worth more if the former owners had privately sold it.
And that car was by no means a clunker. This is just a program thats being miss used. I can see someone selling a 1076 pos in this program, not a Volvo that likely got 25 MPG anyway!
STUPID program that isn’t going to do a damn bit of good.
I thought the greenies believed in recycling everything??
Destroying viable automobiles and their parts hurts the very people who cannot afford new cars........the poor.
Since liberals champion the causes of the poor this is another contradiction of their intentions to be helpful.
For every knee jerk reaction, there is another undesirable reaction.
But the UAW owners of Government Motors are getting another government job subsidy. Bright move O. Government dependency just got a little boost. courtesy of the middle class taxpayer.
How can anything so wasteful be any good at all? /rhetorical question
What’s next, burning down mcmansions?
They k-k-killed Bambi!