Peter Nitschke wrote on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 12:59 am:Labor has announced a copycat scheme for Australia, though the payout is $2k and you have to buy an eco ($$) car.
Matt Sartori wrote on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 01:38 am:Would the energy and materials used to make a new car, not far outweigh the bad polution that an older car would put out..?
Yeah, it is completely wasteful.
Ali Saeed wrote on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 02:04 am:"save the plant" just another way to tax us more. fkwits
Exactly.
Matthew Sharpe wrote on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 07:10 am:Right on Ali - and of course the real motivations for this in the US were because the US had just bailed out the failing US automakers and needed a way to help them sell more cars. In the end I doubt the environment was a concern at all.
That is all it is in my opinion.
Matthew Sharpe wrote on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 07:10 am:Those old, well maintainted European and Japanese cars with 1990's designed engines probably still pump out less emissions than the 1950's designed engines they are still putting in US cars these days.
I agree. I think some 80s-90s cars were the best ever built.