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Government "Cash for Clunkers" program already running out of money:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/…
"Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., who developed the legislation, said he would work with the Obama administration to keep the program going "until it reaches its goal of helping consumers take 1 million gas guzzlers off the road."
Can someone please explain to me the thought process behind spending 1 billion dollars (more to come) of taxpayer (stimulus) money on this? The gist is people bring in RUNNING cars deemed as "gas gusslers" and can trade them in for up to $4,500 on a new more fuel-efficient vehicle. Their old cars? not used or recycled, but scrapped. So essentially old cars = Chinese landfills. Who cares about China anyway right? //
So any environmental benefit coming from people driving more fuel efficient vehicles is completely offset by the huge amount of new pollution as all these old working cars are scrapped. Talk about short sighted.....my question for Rep. Edward Markey and Obama who signed the bill....are your brains in your ass?
Another example of sailing the government failboat.
- I agree..this wasn't well thought out...TheBlueOne
- I think the USA as a whole is extremely short sighted. It's reflected in almost everything we do.designbot
- A few documentaries that have really challenged my thinking:
Manufactured Landscapes
The Money Masters
The End of Suburbiadesignbot - Highly recommended....some you can check out on youtube I think.designbot
- ...oops the last one got cut off, it was: The End of Suburbia.designbot
- sorry kind of random, only one of those deals much with the topic at hand :)designbot