Posted on 07/28/2009 11:32:43 AM PDT by theruleshavechanged
LaHood sounded a bit vicious in explaining the process, describing it as essentially a “murdering” of the car.
After a deal is made with a car dealership, sodium silicon is poured onto the car, the engine then fogs, and is towed away, he explained.
“The car is dead,” LaHood said. “We kill the car.”
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Life as we know it gone...poof
That's the point of the program.
Crazy part is the manufacturers falling for it.
Aren't they brilliant?
Actually it was pretty smart of them to give our money for it instead of their own....Wait..the gubmint doesn't have it's own money. Just ours...
Have you seen one of the “Smart” cars on your streets yet?
the drivers of these rolling tort claims are insane to take them out in the traffic around here, but we have several. If one of our local Asian women who is driving a minivan full of kids while talking on the phone runs a stop sign and t-bones one of these little wonders, it’ll reduce the occupants to hermetically sealed bug food.
The odds of surviving a crash in one are somewhere between zilch point $hit and zero...
“sodium silicon is poured onto the car”
Once again, a dolt writes an article. Sodium silicon is poured INTO the cars engine through the oil filler and the engine runs until it dies.
A lot of cars that could be rebuilt are turned into garbage....The government is trying to put engine rebuilders out of business.
Then we become dependent on the union controlled manufacturers.
That’s the idea, he is trying to get all large vehicles off the road. Heck, in 10 years we may be back to horse and buggy.
I will never buy a car I cannot work on myself. To hell with the government!
Well, I’m actually tossing the idea around and might take them up on the offer. I have a ‘97 Ford F250 crew cab truck that gets about 9 MPG and costs about $80 to fill it up. IF I can score another truck (newer and with better MPG) and take the $4500 plus another $4500 in matching from the manufacturer, it just may be worth it.
But there’s no way in h*ll I’m buying some stupid hybrid or a tiny econobox death trap. It’ll definitely be another full-sized truck.
“Once again, a dolt writes an article. Sodium silicon is poured INTO the cars engine through the oil filler and the engine runs until it dies.”
yah...I believe the sodium silicon is super abrasive and counteracts any lubrication the oil may have provided. You can accomplish the same thing with one fluid ounce of polystyrene resin in the crankcase; it completely breaks down the oil and destroys any lubrication qualities...you would be better off with pure water in there....
A smart Car is so small, it wouldn’t be t-boned, it would be i-boned.
Totalitarian government at its best!
It’s a conspiracy against V-8 engines!
Øbama can have my 450HP 2001 Ford F150 SVT Lightning, when he pries my cold fingers from the steering wheel!
"Dotting the i"?
I heard on the radio recently that there is a car crushing company in a Chicago suburb that expects to gain a LOT of business from this deal. Hence the car destruction part of the plan. ozero is taking care of his buds.
Most constructive response from you! I’m sure we were all edified by it, however, I understood the point and wish you did.
The fact is that we will pay $2,000 for black box “safety” or monitoring boxes in the new cars, more govt. intervention.
My grandson works for the local Dodge dealer and he told us yesterday that the only sales they are making is using this stolen money scheme. They go directly to the Masher and he can’t even take any parts off of them before they leave the lot...
I honestly can’t tell the front from the back of that death trap piece of C%$#
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