Richard J Kinch wrote:
Chet writes:

Announcer said car dealers use the chemical to 'kill' engines so they
can never be repaired.

No, not the car dealers. The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT requires it. Read the 100
pages of the final rules on the program. And they were all effete about
even this, worrying if there wasn't some environmental harm, or cost, or
hazmat, or workplace risk, or any other whiny nanny liberal fret. This was
chosen of things like drilling a hole in the block, or running without oil.

This is not euthanasia for perfectly good machines.

Right, it is the destruction of old crappy machines that get lousy mileage.

If you have to anthropomorphize it, it is like taking a 15 year old,
blind, incontinent, old mutt with mange on his final car ride to see the
vet...

As long as we're going to slaughter innocents, we
might as well be clean and effective about it. The machine must be RUINED
without any salvage possibility.

That is the idea! Yeah! the winger is finally getting it!!!!


Also reminds one of battlefield "demil" procedures in the Army for captured
weapons and materiel.

hardly, pretty much everything but the short block can be parted out and
sold.


Or the surplus Garand rifles being cut in half by the USA in peacetime
instead of sold.

Only if they only did it to rifles with lousy headspace, eroded throats
and broken stocks...