Cash for Your Clunker?

One of the hidden expenses to a large part of the population is the used parts industry. Many people, and repair shops, will be forced to purchase new OEM parts rather than used. While employing people to make new parts is good, the repair industry will have no choice but to increase prices to reflect the added costs. This will, no doubt, result in increased out-of-pocket expense to consumers. Insurance companies, who encouraged used parts, will gain due to higher premiums. In the end, the small guy, like me, reaches deeper into his wallet.

I'm not happy with the communistic mindset of most Americans, that it's O.K. to steal money from your neighbors as long as you have government do it. I'm horrified by the waste. I've seen news stories showing a compact Mercedes Benz and a Chevy S-10 pickup being crushed. Somewhere out there are people who can't afford to buy a new car, that could be driving one of those vehicles instead of their 20 year old V8 clunker, but those crushed vehicles were wasted. That's not an environmentally sound policy. Not even a little bit. It sickens me. It is not a cost-effective way to spend even stolen money. Everyone is interested in good fuel economy, nobody wants to waste money on gasoline, except maybe the politicians who didn't offer those vehicles for free to anyone who could exchange an older, poorer mileage vehicle for them.