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Cash for clunkers program is car genocide
Washington Examiner ^ | 07-28-2009 | Kiki Ryan and Jeff Dufour

Posted on 07/28/2009 11:32:43 AM PDT by theruleshavechanged

LaHood sounded a bit vicious in explaining the process, describing it as essentially a “murdering” of the car.

After a deal is made with a car dealership, sodium silicon is poured onto the car, the engine then fogs, and is towed away, he explained.

“The car is dead,” LaHood said. “We kill the car.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda; automakers; bho44; bhodot; cars; cash; cashforclunkers; clunkers; epa; lahood
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I'm so disgusted about this! Govt sponsored destruction of perfectly good cars. . . where are my kids going to find used vehicles? What happens when all the cool clunkers go down the drain? WASTE WASTE WASTE!!!
1 posted on 07/28/2009 11:32:44 AM PDT by theruleshavechanged
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To: theruleshavechanged

Life as we know it gone...poof


2 posted on 07/28/2009 11:35:51 AM PDT by Kackikat
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where are my kids going to find used vehicles?

That's the point of the program.

Crazy part is the manufacturers falling for it.

3 posted on 07/28/2009 11:37:10 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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The gubmint figured out how to give $4500 of our dollars for a three hundred dollar car.

Aren't they brilliant?

Actually it was pretty smart of them to give our money for it instead of their own....Wait..the gubmint doesn't have it's own money. Just ours...

4 posted on 07/28/2009 11:37:17 AM PDT by libs_kma (F.U.B.O.)
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To: theruleshavechanged

Have you seen one of the “Smart” cars on your streets yet?

the drivers of these rolling tort claims are insane to take them out in the traffic around here, but we have several. If one of our local Asian women who is driving a minivan full of kids while talking on the phone runs a stop sign and t-bones one of these little wonders, it’ll reduce the occupants to hermetically sealed bug food.

The odds of surviving a crash in one are somewhere between zilch point $hit and zero...


5 posted on 07/28/2009 11:38:14 AM PDT by Bean Counter ( Shovel ready...)
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“sodium silicon is poured onto the car”

Once again, a dolt writes an article. Sodium silicon is poured INTO the cars engine through the oil filler and the engine runs until it dies.


6 posted on 07/28/2009 11:38:22 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: theruleshavechanged

A lot of cars that could be rebuilt are turned into garbage....The government is trying to put engine rebuilders out of business.


7 posted on 07/28/2009 11:38:59 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Snickering Hound

Then we become dependent on the union controlled manufacturers.


8 posted on 07/28/2009 11:39:52 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: Bean Counter

That’s the idea, he is trying to get all large vehicles off the road. Heck, in 10 years we may be back to horse and buggy.


9 posted on 07/28/2009 11:40:27 AM PDT by DonaldC
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To: theruleshavechanged

I will never buy a car I cannot work on myself. To hell with the government!


10 posted on 07/28/2009 11:40:35 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: theruleshavechanged

Well, I’m actually tossing the idea around and might take them up on the offer. I have a ‘97 Ford F250 crew cab truck that gets about 9 MPG and costs about $80 to fill it up. IF I can score another truck (newer and with better MPG) and take the $4500 plus another $4500 in matching from the manufacturer, it just may be worth it.

But there’s no way in h*ll I’m buying some stupid hybrid or a tiny econobox death trap. It’ll definitely be another full-sized truck.


11 posted on 07/28/2009 11:40:55 AM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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“Once again, a dolt writes an article. Sodium silicon is poured INTO the cars engine through the oil filler and the engine runs until it dies.”

yah...I believe the sodium silicon is super abrasive and counteracts any lubrication the oil may have provided. You can accomplish the same thing with one fluid ounce of polystyrene resin in the crankcase; it completely breaks down the oil and destroys any lubrication qualities...you would be better off with pure water in there....


12 posted on 07/28/2009 11:41:44 AM PDT by Bean Counter ( Shovel ready...)
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A smart Car is so small, it wouldn’t be t-boned, it would be i-boned.


13 posted on 07/28/2009 11:42:02 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: theruleshavechanged

Totalitarian government at its best!

It’s a conspiracy against V-8 engines!

Øbama can have my 450HP 2001 Ford F150 SVT Lightning, when he pries my cold fingers from the steering wheel!


14 posted on 07/28/2009 11:43:52 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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A smart Car is so small, it wouldn’t be t-boned, it would be i-boned.

"Dotting the i"?

15 posted on 07/28/2009 11:44:40 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski (No good deed goes unpunished.)
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To: theruleshavechanged

I heard on the radio recently that there is a car crushing company in a Chicago suburb that expects to gain a LOT of business from this deal. Hence the car destruction part of the plan. ozero is taking care of his buds.


16 posted on 07/28/2009 11:45:04 AM PDT by Texas resident ( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
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To: CodeToad

Most constructive response from you! I’m sure we were all edified by it, however, I understood the point and wish you did.
The fact is that we will pay $2,000 for black box “safety” or monitoring boxes in the new cars, more govt. intervention.


17 posted on 07/28/2009 11:45:21 AM PDT by Bowtie52
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To: theruleshavechanged
This turd with four wheels is a death trap!
18 posted on 07/28/2009 11:45:25 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: theruleshavechanged; SouthTexas

My grandson works for the local Dodge dealer and he told us yesterday that the only sales they are making is using this stolen money scheme. They go directly to the Masher and he can’t even take any parts off of them before they leave the lot...


19 posted on 07/28/2009 11:46:47 AM PDT by tubebender (Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I honestly can’t tell the front from the back of that death trap piece of C%$#


20 posted on 07/28/2009 11:47:47 AM PDT by Bowtie52
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