DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Aug 6, 2:16 pm, Phisherman 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
What ever happened to the "reuse" concept to be green and save the
planet?

How do you suggest that we reuse, in an evironmentally friendly way,
the engine from an old gas guzzler?

Newspaper here said around 2/3 of the vehicles being murdered are trucks
and such. Plenty of broke tradesmen out there who would like a newer
truck than the even-older one they are driving. Even with the $4500
check (which is probably added back to the price of a new car), there
are a lot of people out there that can't afford to buy new. When you are
thinning a herd, you don't kill the middle-age ones, you kill the oldest
and sickest. There is a lot of iron driving around on the streets here
that is even older and more polluting than the vehicles being destroyed.
They should at least SORT the trade-ins, and give the ones with usable
life left in them to Goodwill 'Wheels to Work' and similar programs,
that give cars to people so they can get jobs and get off welfare. For
people that have nothing but shoes, even a 15 mpg car looks pretty damn
good, if it means they can get to and from work. Don't worry, the
pending return of $4 gas will keep them from driving anywhere but to
work and the grocery store. If there is no local donation program, have
a first-come, first-serve swap arrangement, where people with NO money,
can bring in an older and higher mileage car, and let that take the
place of the one on the condemned list. Only destroy the oldest and
crappiest ones.

Call me a luddite- destroying working tools and equipment is a sin, and
bad for the environment. 'Use it up, wear it out', etc.

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aem sends...