Cash for Clunkers...oh well.

Well, despite all the people stating how dumb it is to continue the "Cash for Clunkers" program, our elected officials (and the well-paid lobbyists that talk to them) decided American needed to extend the program. Hopefully, the funds will be blown through as fast as the first time, and this idiotic waste can be stopped.

Here's a thought. I wonder how goverment policy would change if poor people had great lobbyists?

Cash for Clunkers....the madness increases...

Here is another video, of a fine-running Volvo being "executed" after being traded in as part of the "Cash for Clunkers" program.




As you can tell, the higher-end engines will struggle long and hard before seizing up on the mixture of sodium silicate. As someone who has seen the kind of vehicles being traded in for the "Cash for Clunkers" program, the waste should bother you. Perfectly good vehicles that could be some lower-income family's first decent car are having their engines destroyed because the "experts on everything" in Washington think this is a good idea.

And not only are the engines destroyed. 180 days after the car is sent to a salvage operation, it MUST be shredded or crushed for scrap metal, so even IF another engine could be found, this vehicle, that the government experts have deemed "dirty", will never be back on the road.

A couple of examples being proclaimed "clunkers"..

1986 Ford Bronco, garage kept, less than 11K miles -The 351W V-8 is dead now.

1999 Olds Silhouette mini-van, less than 69K, loaded, DVD, etc - Engine is now dead.


"We are from the government and we are here to help."