Kyle Waters wrote: > In cache valley they calculated that 50% of the pollution was coming > from 5% of the cars. So IF they can get those 5% off the road my > calculation is > > being able breath=$??????
Rather than subsidize the purchase of new cars (one of the dumbest things I've heard of in a long time), the way to clear old cars off the road is simply legislate them away. Tax them in terms of pollution or something. Designate certain cars (nothing from the late 70s and 80s) as classic cars if the owner is willing to pay a high fee or something. I believe many European countries operate this way. The economic problem in general with older vehicles is that there's no economic incentive whatsoever for replacing old vehicles that still run. At least for cars less than 20 years old, they tend to just keep on running until they completely break down at which time most folks will trash the vehicle and pick up another "clunker" and run for a few more years. I don't drive much, but I recently picked up a used SUV as a good number of my miles are hauling my junk to Canada and beating around dirt roads. It gets relatively horrible gas mileage, but compared to the cost of a new car (or SUV), I can drive for quite a long ways on the difference. Of course if everyone thought the way I do (and many of us do), the economy would implode. IE we tell people to save money, yet our economy is set up for spending not saving, so if everyone did it we'd be in trouble. Sigh. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
