Posted on 01/30/2009 7:36:30 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
SEMA is opposing an effort by some Washington lawmakers to include a national car crushing program in the upcoming economic stimulus package. Vehicles targeted for the scrap pile will likely include Chevy Blazers, Silverados, S-10s and Tahoes; Dodge Dakotas and Rams; Ford Explorers and F-Series; Jeep Cherokees and Wranglers; and any other SUV or truck that obtains less than 18 mpg.
Are these the dumbest people ever? I am sure God, himself. is spinning at their stupidity.
There is nothing better for an economy than to destroy valuable assets.
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I had to click the article. NOPE! NOT SATIRE. They try to crush my Explorer and I’ll crush them. I’m not fond of Commies OR Nazis.
Dems are in charge. They sure don’t care about those of us in rural and semi-rural areas. I guess I’m supposed to tow my horses with a Prius...just another example that the dems love beef, when it’s raised in Japan...
At first I thought this was satire. I had to work hard to convince myself that it isn’t. Absolutely crazy.
The F150 is the top selling truck. Democrats shur is smrat.
Ignorance, they can build Volgas, but can they sell Volgas.
They are clearly trying to play on people’s fears.
Sadly, it is not satire. They are trying their best to ruin this country. They will take my Jeep from cold, dead hands.
I thought SEMA stood for Socialist Emergency Management Agency? Where all natural disasters are solved by throwing money and free credit cards at people?
I’m sure our democrat-communists will appreciate the irony when Americans are still driving their 40 year old Chevy Blazers just as their Cuba revolutionary counterparts are still doing with those 1950’s vintage vehicles today. Ah, hope & change…
I don’t own an SUV, but if this goes through I can see them coming for my sports car in a few years...
They’ll never get their hands on my Silverado as long as I’m still alive and have ammo.
To the politicians that supposedly care (and fakely care) about our environment: My old man had a gas guzzling (11 MPG) Pontiac Grad Prix, a 76’ if you guys had put that guy in jail for that back then, at least I’d listen to you, but now, you suck, harder than anything that has ever sucked before, so FU. and so long as Al Gore is alive, FU, and Nacy Belagosie got her fuel hogging jet, FU. And even if you could ‘Punish’ folk for having vehicles like that - I’d like to challange that athourity, when so many politicians seem to think that any law you could pass would be exempt for them, That’s not in the US Constitution!
The democrats are too stupid to realize that they’re planting the seeds of their own destruction.
As long as they don’t come after older ones!
I’m keeping my 1965 Chev PU with only 1,300,000 miles on it, no way it’s going to the crusher, I wouldn’t have a new one if it was for free.
This is from beyond the beyond.
I took the few minutes it takes to email these birds.
Just being direct was a form of relative politeness to this pair.
Uh oh. The governor of Massachusetts, close buddy of Obama, didn’t get the memo. The first thing he did when he took office was to turn in the state car for a Cadillac Escalade.
A big important man has to have a big important car.
Roosevelt did this during the depression. They said the problem was “overproduction”. People were starving and they would take pigs ready for market, kill them, and bury the carcasses.
It was crazy then, and is crazy now.
1. Compensation for loss of the vehicle?
2. Who pays off any current auto loan?
3. Who decides what mileage I am getting with MY vehicle, and how?
Sounds like the private contractor is clearly in their sights. What the hell are they thinking?
And her Dad can load hay and roofing materials in one, get rid of his truck, after all what does a working man with a farm need one for?
We keep thinking that and yet, it is us that keep shooting ourselves in the foot trying to look like them.
Liberal destruction will only come when conservatives follow through and actually pull the trigger when they have the opportunity.
According to this, it has already been dropped from the “Stimulus Bill”. However, slightly different versions are in Congress in the form of S. 247 and HR 520
http://www.semasan.com/main/main.aspx?id=62505
Fed Tax Break Encourages SUV Purchases (2003 article)
http://abcnews.go.com/technology/hybrid/Story?id=97505&page=1
Thanks to a generous tax credit, Karl Wizinsky is driving a very large vehicle these days — a 2002 Ford Excursion. "It doesn't hurt to have a larger vehicle, but I wouldn't say it's a requirement of my business," he said on a cell phone while driving the Excursion. "But I ended up saving $32,000."
This year, the perks of buying a large SUV — if you're a small business owner — got even bigger.
Congress recently passed a tax bill, as proposed in President Bush's economic stimulus plan, that offers a $100,000 tax credit for business owners who purchase any vehicle weighing 6,000 pounds or more when fully loaded.
When Wizinsky's accountant told him about the credit last year, the amount was much less, at $75,000, but it was enough to encourage Wizinsky to trade in his Mercury Marquis for the Excursion.
"It sounded too good to be true," said Wizinsky, a health care consultant in Novi, Mich. "But it was true. So I bought the SUV. For a small company like mine it's a significant credit."
The tax break was/is for up to $25,000 for purchase of a vehicle for business purposes that weighs over 6,000 lbs. The intent was to get small businesses to make capital purchases faster than three years allowed under depreciation. However, because the law specified the weight but not the purpose, anyone buying an SUV could argue for the tax break. Obviously, the bigger the price tag, the more the rebate--someone buying a Jeep Commando got way less than someone buying a full-featured Hummer.
So now, we taxpayers get to subsidize the purchase of larger heavier vehicles AND subsidize their recall and destruction too !!!
Is this a great country or what ???
Just wondering.
Talk about total wasteful thinking. Do these idiots realize that the energy spent building these vehicles far surpass the energy they will supposedly waste during their lifetime?
Breathtaking stupidity bump for later read
All I say, WTF. How long before they want my ‘06 Subaru WRX Turbo because it can easily do 85 to 90 mph all day long comfortably ? I also have a ‘99 Jeep Cherokee and I will give it up when it cannot be fixed anymore - ready for the junk yard.
Hell, the same people want to “crush” all existing coal-fired power plants and replace with with greenie weenie solar and wind plants. Same economic principle. Destroy a perfectly good asset to create an artificial demand for a replacement asset.
One program I WOULD strongly favor would be the “crushing” of all the houses in Chevy Chase, Georgetown, Bethesda, Arlington and Alexandria — for starters.
Surely you jest. The bankers would just descend on Washington and demand TARP IX.
They’re just domineering, control-freak California weirdos trying to get your goat. Having tried all sorts of abominable social practices and diseases, they want to start trouble for some excitement. They’re not going to send the Army (which isn’t big enough) through all of our ghettos to destroy all of the po’ folks’ “previously owned” rides.
The proposed program to “crush” your cars is really only a pork scheme for offering you money on those heaps in return for buying new cars. Liars, liars on both sides... Just laugh at ‘em and tell ‘em to shut up!
Congress's version of a Potlatch Ceremony.
potlatch Definition from Wiktionary,
English
Etymology: From Chinook Jargon potlatch (“‘gift’”), from Nootka p̓ačiƛ (“‘to give in ceremony’”).
[edit] Noun, Singular: potlatch; Plural: potlatches
A ceremony amongst certain Native American peoples of the Pacific northwest in which gifts are bestowed upon guests and personal property is destroyed in a show of wealth and generosity.
In this case, Congressional generosity with both your tax money and your property.
Great idea!!
Except for Global Warming Flatulence Taxes that will be imposed.
Same here, they can keep their freaking hands off my suburban.
Don't forget, we're also subsidizing the auto companies that build them and that pay the UAW 85% of full pay to not build these vehicles. I'd hate to be a consrvative satirist - you'd never out-do the real democrat plans.
This creeping socialism, engineered by the political class, is resulting in an incremental overthrow of the government of the USofA.
I have news for swinestein and big nose. My ‘94 S-10 get better than 22 MPG with in city driving and almost 25 on the highway.
I agree.
If they give me a 19mpg, 2009 Cadillac CTS in exchange, then count me in.
Actually, I think it's a terrible idea. I'd much rather give them a list of the SUV's and their SOB's I've encountered in the past two years, and have them crushed.
Driver optional.
“From my cold dead Hi/Low range Hub lock switch!”
My Tahoe is an 05 and runs perfectly 16.5/20 mpg, I want to get a new one just to spite these people.
With all the tax breaks his accountant figured it wound up being free!
It never saw any use in the business beyond plowing the parking lot in winter.
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