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Disturbing Video: Volvo Cash for Clunkers Engine Disabling
YouTube ^ | July 30, 2009 | rrader1

Posted on 08/01/2009 5:10:57 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Disabling the engine on cash for clunkers. Volvo is super tough!

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: cashclunkers; clunkers; volvo; youtube
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To: PJ-Comix

http://thedanashow.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/russ-carnahan-rattled-at-cash-for-clunkers-presser/
Russ Carnahan rattled at Cash for Clunkers presser


61 posted on 08/04/2009 2:42:55 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Be prepared for tough times. FReepmail me to learn about our survival thread!)
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To: xcamel; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

How could I forget you guys?

Globaloney Warming ping...


62 posted on 08/04/2009 4:02:18 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Be prepared for tough times. FReepmail me to learn about our survival thread!)
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion; rawhide
That 2000 Volvo is a lot nicer than my daily ride, a 94 Ford Ranger. I can't believe they burned it up like that while laughing.

If you noticed, there was a long line of cars with their hoods up waiting to die. It makes me sick. It's so like the government to ensure that none of those evil engines can ever run again. How many expensive, cool things does the government chop up, melt, bury, seize and destroy every day just so ordinary people can't use them? I remember hearing about some scrapped external fuel tanks from aircraft that would have made a nice pontoon boat. They had to be chopped up and buried. Government stuff.

Maybe "engine destroyer" is on the list of "green jobs" we can all look forward to. Stalin is twitching. Marx is still dead.

63 posted on 08/05/2009 4:31:02 PM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: Sender
Try buying your teenage son a new car sometime in the next five years. Such a horrible waste: potentially destroying 600,000 running used cars, run out of oilon purpose to create union jobs. Talk about featherbedding! Plus it takes 22 barrels of oil to create a new car. These cars would never have used that much *more* gas in its entire life. Just evil and a horrible waste. I'd never do this to my "clunker" PT Cruiser... What's next, cash for Grandma?
64 posted on 08/05/2009 4:35:13 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Be prepared for tough times. FReepmail me to learn about our survival thread!)
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To: PJ-Comix

It’s about control, in this case, of your choice of transportation. Zero & Co. do not even want PARTS for these older cars to be used in other, similar cars. If people want to drive a Honda Civic (what I drive) or a Toyota Prius, that’s fine. But Obamao is trying to kindly, gently force everybody into doing so.


65 posted on 08/05/2009 8:08:11 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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To: PJ-Comix
Who thought it was alright to DESTROY perfectly good engines?

I don't think they necessarily want to destroy all engines (except, maybe, for Al Gore). They just want to destroy the unorthodox ones.

66 posted on 08/05/2009 8:09:23 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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To: Painesright; Eric Blair 2084

Hell, why not have people barf up their handburgers and martinis and trade the spew in for cash to buy tofu and sparkling water?


67 posted on 08/05/2009 8:11:45 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Painesright; Eric Blair 2084
handburgers = hamburgers d-oh
68 posted on 08/05/2009 8:12:31 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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To: Huck

Santayana’s words weren’t a caution, they were a lament.


69 posted on 08/05/2009 8:26:43 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion

Inurement results through repeated conditioning, here we see it start with inanimate but still valuable objects made worthless by edict through compensated conspiracy; this time around there is but the blood of 10-40 oil on their hands.


70 posted on 08/05/2009 8:37:45 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Old Professer

Yup. My working theory is that you just have to live through some things yourself to really believe it and understand it. And once you’ve seen it twice, you’ve got it down for sure. But sometimes folks just have to learn the hard way. It’s a fact of life.


71 posted on 08/06/2009 5:40:39 AM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: PJ-Comix

Obama HATES the poor. He is destroying the very vehicles they usually get donated to them our they buy cheap.


72 posted on 08/06/2009 5:41:46 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: PJ-Comix

That car doesn’t exactly look like a clunker to me. Am I missing something?


73 posted on 08/06/2009 5:44:08 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: ronnietherocket2
"Up the gas stack of the steel mill making the parts for the next car to replace this perfectly good one."

Not really, you see.....

The "Cap and Trade" thingy will bankrupt the coal industry.

Without coal, you can't make coke.

Without coke, you can't charge a blast furnace to make iron (at least not in an efficient, relatively clean way.)

No iron means no steel. So the domestic steel industry dies.

It's OK though - 'cause we'll just buy steel from our good buddies the ChiComs, or the Indians.

Oh, yeah ..... and Obamamobiles aren't going to have much steel in them anyway .....


74 posted on 08/06/2009 6:04:18 AM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: PJ-Comix

A metaphor for ‘Gold for Geezers.’


75 posted on 08/06/2009 6:07:56 AM PDT by maggief
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