(Warning: graphic and disturbing imagery contained, herein)
We’re not sure there are enough ways to describe just how excrable the C4C program is but we hope these two short videos give you a visceral sense of the awfulness of C4C.
The first is a visual how-to on killing a perfectly good automobile. We checked out some other videos on YouTube and the disgust displayed by the people (auto dealer mechanics) who are forced to do this because of this program was palpable.
The clip below talks about how the C4C program is hurting charities and the used car market. And the best part? The clip was made while the program was burning through its first billion dollars…. before Congress signed up the program for another $2 billion more.
So, let’s see: Distort the new car market by displacing potential buyers over the next several years? Check. Environmental dubiousness because of the considerable carbon footprint to make a new car and the fact that new cars get driven more often and for longer than older ones? Check. Hurting charities? Check. Damaging the used car and used engine part markets by killing perfectly serviceable automobiles? Check. Spending $3 billion we don't have? Check.
Enticing Americans to take on more debt load? Check. Creating a bureaucratic nightmare where dealers have only been re-imbursed for approx. 7% (as of last Thursday)of rebate applications? Check. Creating a bureaucratic nightmare to where the Treasury Department is having to siphon off employees from the FAA to handle these rebate applications from the dealers? Check.
Honest to pete – what’s not to love about Cash for Clunkers?
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Exposed: the horribleness of Cash for Clunkers
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I had know idea they were euthanizing the engines until a couple of weeks ago. What a bunch of bafoons. Let's give them something important to do!
This is just wrong on so many levels. There are people who need cheap cars to get to work or get a better job and these things are just being trashed.
It always cracks me up when the left thinks that government action is the answer to environmental woes. The worst water polluter in America is the federal government, for example, and our Congress seems incapable of dreaming up programs that don't harm the environment. My short list:
1. Cash for Clunkers.
2. Ethanol subsidies. (This increases air pollution as we burn petrol to harvest food, that we then burn.)
3. Cap and trade (because as we make people poorer they do more harm to the environment - think Haiti.)
4. Mandatory recycling (think of all those diesel fumes spewing from recycling trucks, while very little environmental benefit accrues to recycling.)
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