Posted on 08/20/2009 7:25:47 PM PDT by Bill Dupray
I am not a big car buff. I can certainly appreciate all manner of vintage models, high-end machines, and cool designs, but it is not in my blood. But like anything people are passionate about, incidents that seem to be no-big-deal to ordinary folks are positively painful for aficionados. And while we thoroughly shredded the economically perverted and ridiculous Cash for Clunkers program in an earlier post, and showed a video on how they kill these cars, I came across this one and had to post it.
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The old “Clunker” don’t need a hip. sarc.
I happily own a 98 Z28. I would have sold it to save that Vette.
That’s series not right.
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen: it is well for us, if they are foreseen. Between a good and a bad economist this constitutes the whole difference - the one takes account of the visible effect; the other takes account both of the effects which are seen, and also of those which it is necessary to foresee. Now this difference is enormous, for it almost always happens that when the immediate consequence is favourable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse. Hence it follows that the bad economist pursues a small present good, which will be followed by a great evil to come, while the true economist pursues a great good to come, - at the risk of a small present evil.
When we arrive at this unexpected conclusion: "Society loses the value of things which are uselessly destroyed;" and we must assent to a maxim which will make the hair of protectionists stand on end - To break, to spoil, to waste, is not to encourage national labour; or, more briefly, "destruction is not profit."
This is sickening.
Can’t watch.
Heck, even watching the Volvo and the Jeep from a couple of weeks ago was too painful.
That too, is our future, if they prevail on health care.... although I’ll bet they DO ‘part us out’ if we have any useful organs left that their leftist friends need.
And everything else will go into Soylent Green. I hope whoever they transplant parts of me into dies from rejection complications, and whoever eats the leftovers in the soylent chokes on me.
What idiot turned in their Vette for 4.5k?
Moron!
I guess I'll be the white-haired uncle with the red Barchetta in the garage. Somebody has to.
That’s worse than the one I saw with a trailer hitch, while I was out camping.
And earlier this year, I saw one with those teeny-tiny, really wide tires and chrome wheels, and woodgrain (a.k.a. Country Squire) on the sides.
I wept.
My kids wept.
My dogs took to drinking.
Greeny Gore Porn. That was sickening.
Gal was on the radio last night talking about the clunkers. She asked an economist or something “What’s the most efficient thing I can do? Trade in my clunker?”
He told her heck no. Drive it till the wheels fall off.
Between the actual manufacture, the production of all the parts, the shipping, the mining and fabrication of all the metals and plastics and electronics, a new car takes way, way, way more energy and materials than a used car ever will.
People sometimes rib me for driving a 15 year old rig with 200K+ on it but hey, I change the oil, new tires every three years or so, I already know it’s sore points! And still gets 34 or more on the highway and 25 city!
A long time ago, Ian Fleming told me they did.
This stuff is really making me sick to my stomach.
Sick!
Blasphemy.
Yep. Could have sold it to someone for 4500 and saved the car in the process. But CfC is the perfect leftist analogy - they only know how to destroy.
Wouldn’t it been worth way more to sell it?
I can’t watch. I’m still not over the Mythbusters where they put dead animals in a Corvette.
My martial arts instructor would weep if he saw that. He has a gray C4.
If they do, on some winding unlit mountain road, in the dark of a stormy night sometime in the future-those responsible for this travesty will get their reward.
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