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"Cash for clunkers"?? |
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alabamatoy 
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 Topic: "Cash for clunkers"??Posted: 19 January 2009 at 10:20am |
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If the obnoxious, intrusive, know-it-all evil Senator from the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia came up with it, then its gotta be a bad idea.
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Posted: 19 January 2009 at 1:07pm |
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I'm sorry I cannot bring myself to go to feinsteins web page. Can you parafraise for me.
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Posted: 20 January 2009 at 12:50am |
She's pushing a "buyback" program for older cars, ostensibly to encourage owner with up to $2500 cash to trade in their polluter car for one that doesnt pollute as much.
There have been efforts like this in the past, but they turned into something that the automotive hobbyist would dread. IIRC, Georgia nearly passed some rediculous thing a few years ago about forcing people to get new cars - some vehicle age limits and efforts to prevent people from being able to work on their own cars etc. SEMA and others got involved and overturned it. I think Japan has had restrictions like this for some time.....your vehicle gets to a certain age and its bye-bye.
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Posted: 20 January 2009 at 12:55am |
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Yep, in California, lots of restorable classic cars went to the crusher.
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Posted: 20 January 2009 at 2:27am |
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It would be interesting to see what the environmental impact of building a new "green car" vs keeping your old car on the road.
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Posted: 20 January 2009 at 3:14am |
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The inspection standards in Germany were so high that it becomes very difficult to get a vehicle licensed after just a few years. Japan is the same way. It just becomes too expensive to maintain the vehicle per the inspection criteria.
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Posted: 20 January 2009 at 6:09am |
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I was in Germany last March and there were very few older vehicles (+5 years old) anywhere.
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Posted: 23 January 2009 at 3:54pm |
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SEMA Legislative Alert
Oppose Federal Vehicle Scrappage Program
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