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Old 03-31-2013, 06:35 PM   #48 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by H-Man View Post
It is a good fix when a running car has a scrap value of $1000, all cars in California have a scrap value of $1000 as long as it runs because the CARB decided to pay people to retire perfectly good economy cars, I see many geo prizms that have at least 100k left in them at the salvage yard.
I'm not so favorable to those gov't subsides to scrap well-mantained cars. Some older ones, altough won't eventually have too much safety or comfort features, already have a good fuel-efficiency and eventually could be updated regarding emissions-control systems quite easily.
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