Cash for clunkers - destruction - is it just me or....
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I was browsing Youtube last night, and happened to see a 'cash for clunkers' (US equivalent of the scrappage scheme I presume) destruction of a '94 BMW 530i (amongst others).
Is it just me, or do others of you on here feel like you're witnessing the death of something that has a soul - a life - like an animal?
Video is here
Is it just me, or do others of you on here feel like you're witnessing the death of something that has a soul - a life - like an animal?
Video is here
ZesPak said:
True, but if it was a truly desirable car, surely the owner would have tried to sell it on, to get more from it than the scrappage scheme offers?
Just like the UK scrappage scheme, you get could more money by scrapping the vehicle.The intention is to remove "old and polluting" vehicles from our roads.
But the end result is more pollution (killing off the engine) and the resulting disposal of body parts, interior etc.
These schemes are clearly not thought through very well, however well meaning they are intended to be.
Carrot said:
I don't understand people who get emotional over cars.
It is a tool of my life to get me places without walking.
Don't care what happens to it once it is sold on. I am annoyed about the wastefullness of the scrappage scheme in the UK. Plenty of reuseable cars scrapped when they could have been sold to people that can't really afford newer cars.
You can't possibly be a petrolhead then?It is a tool of my life to get me places without walking.
Don't care what happens to it once it is sold on. I am annoyed about the wastefullness of the scrappage scheme in the UK. Plenty of reuseable cars scrapped when they could have been sold to people that can't really afford newer cars.
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