[BoxerFanatic]

Agreed.

But the government doesn't need to be involved in the process, inflating the market artificially, and then mandating that rare hardware be destroyed, when it could be of further use.

They talk about energy efficiency, but then they address the issue by incentivizing and mandating such WASTE.

It isn't as though someone is going to take the scrap, and re-manufacture SVX parts with it, when some of us need SVX parts in the future.... That would be wasteful enough... no they are going to waste the energy to crush these cars, waste the taxpayer money to buy them from their owners, and then MANDATE the crusher, instead of even offering a salvage-value waiver for them.

This isn't a 1992-1997 boring-mobile, where hundreds of thousands were built, and nobody upon nobody still wants them. This is like crushing a Porsche, if those happened to be worth less than 3500-4500$ on the used market, or were less well known than they happen to be.

How many Porsche 944s will get crushed like this? How about BMW 6-series coupes? How many RX7s, or Nissan Z's? There should be a way to exempt these from the crusher.


As much as I am a law and order guy, I find this law completely immoral, and unethical impingement on the free market, and an unconscionable use of taxpayer dollars by the government.

I would rather see these cars all of the sudden magically "misplaced", and Ryan's company magically find their equivalent scrap-metal money without having to use their car crushers on these rare vehicles. I don't want these businesses to lose. I want the government OUT of the businesses.

On a theoretical level, why should that even matter to the government... are they tracking these things into and out of the crushers?

Sorry, I should take this rant to the other threads that deal with this issue on a political level.