nom=de=plume wrote:
"Lu Powell" wrote in message
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And that doesn't take into account the loss of revenue for the aftermarket
parts and repair industry that just lost those potential 700,000 vehicles
to the junkyard. Nor the energy savings of recycling those parts through
the re-manufacturing industry


And, it doesn't take into account the improvement to the atmosphere, small
though it is (if you really want a big improvement, severely restrict beef
sales), nor the improvement, also relatively small in the viability of the
auto manufacturers nor putting the breaks on a worsening job market.

Hate to break it to you, but most of the usable parts of the clunkers were
salvaged before the shredding. There was some loss to the secondary car
sales market, since they were removed from the mix.

Think of the number of nonpolluting nuclear plant that could have been
built and truly eliminating coal fired plants. reducing CO2 means
eliminating fossil fuels (gasoline,coal, natural gas, propane, etc) as
an energy sources.