On Aug 4, 1:53*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 07:00:22 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:

Sodium Silicate.

The government mandates that cars traded in under the "Cash for Clunkers"
program be permanently disabled and specifies that the method used is to
replace the oil with Sodium Silicate then run the engine until it freezes.

This has caught the suppliers of the substance by surprise. One company that
sold maybe 150 gallons of the stuff a year has already sold 15,000 gallons!

From the Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124934376942503053.html

They aren't doing anything that fancy here. The paper has an article
showing the whole car going into a chipper. All they are doing is
draining the fluids. They showed a Mercedes SEL going in and coming
out as kibble and bits. I am really surprised that they didn't take
off the body parts that were OK. All the clunker law requires is that
they destroy the engine and the VIN plate, everything else can be
salvagedhttp://gfretwell.com/ftp/HR3246%20clunker%20bill.doc

http://www.time.com/time/business/ar...914367,00.html