Posted on 08/03/2009 8:24:07 PM PDT by FromLori
Robert Mueller deals in chemicals for a living -- things that can unstick glue, thin paint, make plastic -- but he'd never seen an order like the one he got for sodium silicate.
The compound is typically used to repel bugs or seal concrete, but this buyer's online order form betrayed a whole different intent: "To Kill Car Engines."
"That worried me a little, so I picked up the phone and called the gentleman," recalls Mr. Mueller, an owner of chemical-firm CQ Concepts Inc. in suburban Chicago.
What Mr. Mueller discovered is that sodium silicate is the designated agent of death for cars surrendered under the federal cash-for-clunkers program. To receive government reimbursement, auto dealers who offer rebates on new cars in exchange for so-called clunkers must agree to "kill" the old models, using a method the government outlines in great detail in its 136-page manual for dealers: Drain the engine of oil and replace it with two quarts of a sodium-silicate solution.
"The heat of the operating engine then dehydrates the solution leaving solid sodium silicate distributed throughout the engine's oiled surfaces and moving parts," says the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration publication. "These solids quickly abrade the bearings causing the engine to seize while damaging the moving parts of the engine and coating all of the oil passages."
In a nation packed with experts on how to keep cars running, the engine-killing powers of sodium silicate are a well-kept secret. "I, like, have so not even ever heard of this before," said Robert Lutz, new marketing chief and renowned "car guy" at General Motors Co., in an email.
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This is beyond a practical destruction of the vehicle. This is raw hatred of the vehicle made official. This is vengeance, a tantrum from the left, a kick in the head after the victim is down.
The Party of Death: Now killing cars too!
Obama’s gang is evil.
Proscribed SUV euthenasia
They killed GM and Chrysler along with the UAW. Evil.
They killed GM and Chrysler along with the UAW. Evil.
In the Nineteenth Century what the government is doing today was done by the Luddites.
They also use it to plug leaks in old fashioned cast iron radiators.
The mantra of the left (greens) is “recycle”. “Reduce, re-use, recycle”. Here they have a chance to recycle, or re-use, and what do the lying scum suckers do, make it impossible. Pigs! Lying sacks of S***. Is there anything lower than a liberal?
Next: Cash for Croakers. Dispose of your elderly and ailing relatives for a cash payout. It’s the new face of ObamaCare.
The left is pathological.
Pour in a gallon drive seize done.
I'm not dead yet...
“Waterglass”... It has lots of practical uses. I did not know about this one.
And here I thought the cashed in “clunkers” were all going to end up in the section 8 housing projects.
Don’t believe everything you hear or read...the “0” Propaganda Machine is still running.
as I noted on this ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2305946/posts ) thread
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?
The only thing Democrats know how to do is Destroy.
But you can believe that legions of vandals, spurned lovers, and other would-be car killers now know all about it, thanks to the Fed gov...
Kinda like the way that millions of kids had never heard of oral sex until Bill Clinton worked his magic...
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