RE: "Cash for Clunkers" on hold

["Gary H." <spigot2039@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good arguments to have in your brain pocket when some dude gives you grief for driving your "old, CO2 belching" Mopar. :-P 

Also use:

"Scrappage programs are environmentally reckless--According to the Hamburg Environmental Institute, the manufacture of one new automobile creates 25.9 tons of non-recyclable waste. This is what will be produced as new vehicles eventually are manufactured to replace those removed from the road."
http://www.houstonmopars.org/noscrap.html


Gary H. 


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...it takes 113 million BTUs of energy to make a Toyota 
>Prius. Because there are about 113,000 BTUs of energy in a gallon of 
>gasoline, the Prius has consumed the equivalent of 1,000 gallons of 
>gasoline before it reaches the showroom. Think of it as a carbon debt -- 
>one you won't pay off until the Prius has turned over 46,000 miles or 
>so. " 
 


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