This makes my stomach turn. It is sick.
Consumption **caused** global warming. How can destroying instead of recycling help? Many of these cars would have good engines, so why destroy them? Should be recycling them carefully and encouraging people to use other forms of transport and only buy smaller, lighter cars... in more effective ways: Taxing fuel is a direct so effective method, but that doesn't buy votes... this hair-brained way the environment suffers and recycling is reduced, just so that votes can be produced.
As if many of us deserve to buy a new car anyhow when we should be using them less and walking more
If anyone cared they'd only be subsidising pblic transport, hand trolleys/shopping karts, bicycles and proper pathways to make them useful. If we used our cars less, we'd address the issue immediately, wihtout producing tons of CO2 in the process of making and shipping a new car. It simply wouldn't matter that they use more a bit more fuel than a new one.
This program encourages a lot of people that don't use a car vey much, that probably should use one far less anyhow, to buy a newly produce, imported, adn only slightly less filthy, oil-burning automobile (to neglect and scrap for the wrong reasons all over again). Bring on the heat... and keep digging up more oil to meet the oh-so deperate demand.
Originally Posted by genphreak
This makes my stomach turn. It is sick.
"The gas pedal wouldn't go to the floor if it weren't meant to be there"
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