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Yet you probably loved cash for clunkers.
by beerandt 2y ago
Yet you probably loved cash for clunkers.
- Retric 2y agoGetting old cars off the road meaningfully improved safety even if it didn’t do much for the environment.
- d110af5ccf 2y agoIt actively harmed the environment. Once the thing has been manufactured doing anything less than driving it into the ground is wasting the upfront environmental cost.
- Retric 2y agoNot always. The average car in Wyoming gets driven 24,000 miles a year something getting 12 MPG is burning 2,000 gallons a year directly and another 30% indirectly from manufacture transportation and extraction of oil. That’s a lot for a 5 year old car you could easily be saving 30,000+ gallons of oil. Obviously, that’s average many cars are significantly worse. Run the numbers and swapping a high mileage but poor fuel economy car for a hybrid/EV and the payback can be a net positive.
- dmd 2y agoEr, no? A program designed mostly to enrich automakers that had little or even negative environmental effect? Why would I love that?