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Originally Posted by dcb
Folks traded them in knowing the deal, no guns to heads. 700k NEW cars sold as a result plus improved mpg stats for the country.
But you cant tell me that car in 1.5 minutes under load makes more pollution than the other 250,000 miles @ < 18mpg.
Lot of emotional comments, I'm not grieving over the oversized hardware, I kinda enjoyed the video just for it's destructive flair. Was all very contained though, there must have been some more interesting results in the processing of 700k cars.
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I was being facetious.
You have to admit that is an idiotic way to dispose of 700k engines.
Here is a CO2 cost analysis of the program. A real bargain.
STUDY: Cash For Clunkers not exactly a bargain, emissions reduction costs 10x more than carbon credits — Autoblog Green