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Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker
coondoggie sends along a NetworkWorld piece that begins, "The government... wants to motivate you to get rid of your clunker of a car for the good of the country (and the moribund car industry). A 'Cash for Clunkers' measure introduced this week by three US Senators, two Democrats and a Republican, would set up a national voucher program to encourage drivers to voluntarily trade in their older, less fuel-efficient car, truck, or SUV for a car that gets better gas mileage. Should the bill pass, the program would pay out a credit of $2,500 to $4,500 for drivers who turn in fuel-inefficient vehicles to be scrapped and purchase a more fuel-efficient vehicle."
Who told you that CO2 is the only emission that we should be concerned with? Personally, I've never caught a whiff of CO2 and thought to myself "Ack. My lungs!" Honestly, there are worse emissions, albeit possibly in smaller quantities. I'm certainly no expert on the matter.
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It might be nice from a social engineering standpoint, or even environmentally sound because you're taking old gas-guzzling, soot-spewing cars off the road, but it's most certainly NOT good economics.
I mean, why stop at this paltry incentive plan??
Why not use the US Military and fire rockets at every car currently on the road?
You'd create jobs in emergency response, clean-up, road reconstruction, military weapons development (gotta replace all those missiles!), AND the auto companies! Zero percent unemployment here we come!